{"id":170095,"date":"2022-12-27T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/whoopi-goldberg-clarifies-recent-comments-about-jews-race-the-holocaust-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:50:08","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-clarifies-recent-comments-about-jews-race-the-holocaust-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/whoopi-goldberg-clarifies-recent-comments-about-jews-race-the-holocaust-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg Clarifies Recent Comments About Jews, Race & The Holocaust \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tUPDATED<\/strong> with statement<\/strong>: Whoopi Goldberg issued a statement to Deadline today after an interview she did with the Sunday Times of London sparked a strong response from the ADL and other organizations which combat anti-Semitism. In the statement, Goldberg indicates that, in the interview, she was simply recounting what she said earlier this year, not \u201cdoubling down on hurtful comments.\u201d She also says plainly that \u201cI believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tRead every full statement below.<\/p>\n

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\tRecently while doing press in London, I was asked about my comments from earlier this year. I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time. It was never my intention to appear as if I was doubling down on hurtful comments, especially after talking with and hearing people like rabbis and old and new friends weighing in. I’m still learning a lot and believe me, I heard everything everyone said to me. I believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people. My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not. In this time of rising antisemitism, I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will. My support for them has not wavered and never will.<\/p>\n

\n\tPREVIOUSLY<\/strong>: For the second time this year, Whoopi Goldberg has tried to make the argument that the Holocaust wasn’t about race, this time qualifying the contention with the idea that it didn’t start out that way, even if it ended up there. And for the second time this year, the ADL and other groups that combat anti-Semitism corrected her.<\/p>\n

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\tIn an interview on Saturday with The Sunday Times to promote Till<\/em>in which she plays civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley’s mother, Goldberg spoke on the topic of race and suggested that there is a debate about whether Jews are a race or religious group.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cMy best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’\u201d The View<\/em> host said in the interview, which was published during Hanukkah.<\/p>\n

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\tReferencing Goldberg’s comments from January, in which she claimed the Holocaust was \u201cnot about race,\u201d the Times interviewer reminded her that the \u201cNazis saw Jews as a race.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tGoldberg replied, \u201cYes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tShe continued: \u201cIt wasn’t originally [about race]. Remember who they were killing first. they were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tIn response, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on Twitter: <\/p>\n

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\tWhoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust and race are deeply offensive and incredibly ignorant. When she made similar comments earlier this year, we explained how the Nazi regime was inherently racist. <\/p>\n

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\tThe Nazis set out to exterminate the Jewish people, whom they viewed as inferior to the mythical ‘Aryan master race.’ They used pseudo-scientific theories of race to justify their anti-Jewish \u201crace laws\u201d and slaughter of systemic millions.<\/p>\n

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\tIt’s no coincidence that white supremacists in the US today echo the Nazis’ \u201cmaster race\u201d claim as they spread their antisemitic and racist hate.<\/p>\n

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\tAdditionally, Whoopi’s comments show a complete lack of awareness of the multiethnic, multiracial makeup of the Jewish community. She needs to apologize immediately and actually commit to educating herself on the true nature of #antisemitism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yet again, #WhoopiGoldberg<\/a>‘s comments about the Holocaust and race are deeply offensive and incredibly ignorant. When she made similar comments earlier this year, we explained how the Nazi regime was inherently racist. \ud83e\uddf5Read on\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) December 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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\tGoldberg’s statements to the Times are all the more ironic given that, in her January on-air apology, the<\/em> view<\/em> host said that the Holocaust \u201cis indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race. Now, words matter \u2014 and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tAs for Goldberg’s timeline about \u201cwho they were killing first,\u201d the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum shared a letter that Adolf Hitler wrote in 1919 \u2014 fourteen years before the opening of the first concentration camp. In it, Hitler states in clear terms that \u201cJews are definitely a race,\u201d calling Jewish people an \u201calien race, unable and unwilling to sacrifice its racial distinctiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tThe museum also reminded that \u201cThis text is one of the first major statements made by Hitler with regard to the Jewish question.\u201d You can read it below.<\/p>\n

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Excerpt from Adolf Hitler’s letter on ‘the dangers currently presented by Jewry to our nation’ from 16 September 1919. <\/p>\n

This text is one of the first major statements made by Hitler with regard to the Jewish question. pic.twitter.com\/t56oHRWm2w<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n