Actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg claimed in an exchange with her co-hosts on “The View” on Monday that “the Holocaust is not about race,” but “the inhumanity of man to man.” .
The panel was discussing the Tennessee school board’s removal of the Holocaust book “Maus” from its curriculum earlier this month. All five co-hosts protested the board’s decision, saying that the acclaimed graphic memoir should be taught in classrooms; But Goldberg differed greatly from his colleagues on the question of why the Holocaust should be taught to students.
“If you’re going to do this, let’s be truthful about it,” Goldberg said, “It’s [Jews and Nazis] There are two white groups of people.”
Co-host Joy Behar protested, arguing that the Nazis “considered Jews to be a separate race.” Guest co-host Ana Navarro insisted that “it’s about white supremacy, it’s about going after Jews and Gypsies.” But Goldberg continued to speak.
“The minute you turn it into a race, you go down this alley,” she continued, as the show’s producers began playing music as a cue to cut commercials.
Goldberg’s comments come amid a large nationwide countdown on the Holocaust and race education, as many conservative activists fight to restrict the teaching of race-related subjects in schools, while some American Jews refer to themselves as “white”. Inconvenience to be recognized.
When she says, “The Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it’s not about race.”
“Well, Jews are supposed to be a separate race,” says Joy Behar.“But it’s about white supremacy. It’s about going after Jews and Gypsies,” says Ana Navarro. pic.twitter.com/GZwZSi2qXi
— Nicolas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) 31 January 2022
In his writings and speeches that would eventually come to explain his mass destruction plans, Adolf Hitler repeatedly referred to Jews as a race rather than a religious group.
His comments sparked outrage online.
The Auschwitz Museum tweeted him a link to an online course on the Holocaust.
@Whoopi Goldberg ‘The Holocaust – the destruction of European Jews’
Seven-Chapter Online Course on History # Holocaust,Links to all chapters in the tweet below.https://t.co/Law3fQRRMS pic.twitter.com/YJqwbG9ld0
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) 31 January 2022
“Shame on Whoopi Goldberg, apparently she could have used some education on the Holocaust,” tweeted Eli Kohnim, a former US Deputy Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism. “Hitler’s whole propaganda machine sent out the message that Jews were a low caste to the Germans who were a pure “Aryan race.” And then they murdered six million Jews based on this belief.”
Shame on Whoopi Goldberg, apparently she could have used some education on the Holocaust.
Hitler’s entire propaganda machine carried the message that Jews were a lower caste than Germans who were a pure “Aryan race”. And then they killed six million Jews on the basis of this belief. https://t.co/U3U5nGTRPP— ellie cohanim (@elliecohanim) 31 January 2022
Israel’s Consul General in New York, Asaf Zamir, invited Goldberg to join him on a tour of New York’s Jewish Heritage Museum “to learn more about the Holocaust and Antisemitism”.
Many called him to retire.
ABC did not comment on the incident.
Goldberg, born Karen Elaine Johnson, has no Jewish ancestry, but she deliberately adopted her stage name to be Jewish-sounding, as she has stated that she personally identifies with Judaism. She told a London audience in 2016, “I know I’m Jewish. I don’t practice anything. I don’t go to temple, but I remember the holidays.” In 2016, she designed a Hanukkah sweater for Lord & Taylor.