The View off-air for two weeks after her “wrong and hurtful comments”, despite the actor having apologised.According to the BBC, ABC News president Kim Godwin told staff on Tuesday night (February 1): “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments.Goldberg had said she believed the Holocaust “isn’t about race”, instead “about man’s inhumanity to man” in a discussion about the Pulitzer-winning Holocaust novel Maus, which has been banned by a school board in Tennessee.She had said: “Let’s be truthful, the Holocaust isn’t about race, it’s not.
It’s about man’s inhumanity to man, that’s what it’s about. These are two groups of white people.”Following a wave of backlash to her original comments, Goldberg issued an apology.“On today’s show I said the Holocaust is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man’.
I should have said it is about both,” she wrote on social media.pic.twitter.com/KUpdyhQnho— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) February 1, 2022“As Jonathan Greenblatt from of the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people, who they deemed to be an inferior race’.
I stand corrected.“The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never (waver). I am sorry for the hurt I have caused.“Written with my sincerest apologies.
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