Whoopi Goldberg ‘Regrets’ Holocaust Comments: ‘I Stand With The Jewish People’
hollywoodlife.comWhoopi Goldberg, 66, offered a very sincere apology for saying that the Holocaust was “not about race” to start The View on Tuesday February 1.
The co-host said that she “misspoke” during Monday’s episode while discussing a Tennessee schoolboard’s decision to ban Art Spiegelman’s Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust.
The comic offered her support to the Jewish community and brought on Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to discuss why comments like Whoopi’s are harmful.
After thanking people for holding her accountable, Whoopi went into detailed about how the Nazis and Adolf Hitler felt about Jews during the Holocaust, which led to the tragedy. “It is indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race.
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