Whoopi Goldberg Suspended From 'The View' After Saying "The Holocaust Wasn't About Race"

Rev Nolan

I disagree with Whoopi just as much as I disagree with suspending her from The View. We miss an educational opportunity for debate.

MJ Burgess

I am not sure if everyone here is a minister and member of Universal Life, but I am one - and I accept Goldberg's apology. She is entitled to her opinion and she can agree with most of us that Nazism and the Holocaust was inhumane. What I don't understand is - anyone who is speaking out against Goldberg, what are they doing to combat the neo-nazi movement? The neo-nazis are more of a problem to society than Goldberg's remarks. And history has a way of repeating itself. And don't think neo-nazis are only a threat to one group of people. If they are anything like Hitler's Nazis, many groups of people should be disturbed. And if Goldberg's statement bothers you but the neo-nazis don't, your anger and resentment are terribly misguided.

Timothy Newell

Suspension is the over-reaction to a semantics problem...she's right, it was man's inhumanity to man, just wouldn't have added anything about "race" if I had made the comment.

Lionheart

She seems to be mentally unstable to me. She’s full of her own importance, with a huge ego. What type of person actually watches that show?

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Stacey Owens

Your wrong, she touched on the hatred of man.

Just by you suggesting she instigated a issue about race, she made a point.

The Nazis didn't try to murder a color of people.

They tried to kill a nation of people, the Jews

The Jews are a nation of people. Like the Palestinian are Muslim people. The Palestinians don't kill and boom Jews because of color. The boom and kill men woman and Children to destroy that nation.

You need to differentiate.

Only in America there is a hatred of color.

America has a history on this, we know it well.

This is why the term Make America Great Again is promoted. Some White Americans who are for MAGA. They hate people of any color race. They don't want other races to come to America and take away their opportunities and country.

As for the races that are born here or those who want to become Americans, their considered as terrorist or coming here to take over.

The point is hate. Hate destroys people. For people will ultimately turn to their own destruction because of hate.

Just lock at what happened to the Nazis. The leader ended up committing suicide and his army destroyed.

All because of HATE.

Gerardo Salazar

Unfortunately and through perfect marketing and great movies the Jewish people have appropriated the Holocaust forgetting all those non Jews who were there with them and suffered equally at the hands of the so called Superior Race; Gypsies, Poles, Soviet soldiers, Communists, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and even German citizens with mental and physical disabilities who were euthanized regardless of their religion.

To be quite honest I do believe that these other victims have been systematically erased from the collective memory in a great act of injustice because they also were tortured and killed but nobody talks about them. Throughout History we find a plethora of holocausts performed by people on people and thus we have the almost complete annihilation of Native American tribes, Slave trade where tens of thousands of Black people were killed, tortured, starved just because of their color or even the Armenian Genocide of which very few talk about. I would propose the creation of a real Holocaust Museum showing the pain inflicted on these nameless victims and provide for them a very well deserved place in Human History. It’s our duty.

shiningwolf9

I really do not know what she meant, but maybe, even though Jewish people were the majority, people have forgotten there were gays/lesbians, the feeble, media personnel who spoke truth to propaganda, etc....

James Bullard

What's missing here is that while Jewa were the main target of the Holocaust, it was directed at anyone who was deemed "not Aryan". The Nazis swept up LGBTQ people and those who who had "defects" in an attempt to purify their imaginary group who they believed were the proper ruing class. Seen from that perspective, it was not about what we define as race so much as an assault on anyone who was different within the Nazi point of view.

Paul Seldes

I am a jew. but i don't consider Jewish as my race. Looking at me you see a big, bald, white guy even though i am of Spanish and native-American, European descent. However, the Nazis considered jews the "inferior race". Nazism is white supremacy and is based on racist thinking. If you're a Nazi....you're by definition a racist even though they base race on factors that may not be "real".

Matthew Mastrogiovanni

She's an idiot. Plane and simple.

Michael Barton

She's not exactly wrong, but not exactly right. After reading some of these comments on this blog post, there seem to be a lot of followers that will just be outraged if they believe they need to be outraged. Not many thinkers here.

Nazi's wanted to get rid of all the people they thought were bad for society. So they locked up the jews, blacks, gypsies, etc. I feel that some of the story about the "master race" was confused via Hollywood re-writing. Hitler wasn't tall or blonde, so wanting to kill everyone that wasn't that doesn't compute.

Whoopi generalized and thinks all jews are white, which is mostly true, but then you have the elite jews that call themselves jews, and not white. Basically jews as a whole are white until it doesn't serve them, then they become fully jews (and not white at all). You can also convert to judaism, so not all jews will be white anyway. Which is something Whoopi missed. Most people do, however.

It is what it is. It's sad that no one is allowed to publicly debate the issue and re-investigate what the Nazi's did. Over time people will forget, and there may be another holocaust because no one is allowed to know the details otherwise they're shunned from fame and power.

John D. Partin

Truly good people don't deliberately do bad things. Some bad people posing as "good" people will do bad things, glad that they found a way to do bad and live out their true natures, while still appearing to be "good", like Satan appearing as an "angel of light". Religion isn't the only thing that makes people do wrong, as is shown by the Stalinist purges. God isn't a Jew just because He delivered His message to the Jewish people, who were the most open to receive it. Otherwise, He would have delivered it to some other people who were open to receive it or the Gentiles, but that wouldn't have made Him a Gentile, either. God can't be a Jew or a Gentile because those are human groups and God is a Spirit and above human groups.

Chantal Guillou-Brennan

WG didn't need to apologize for the ignorance of some people. 1- Nazi persecution of disabled people began in the first months of the regime. 2- The precise number of homosexuals who died at the hands of the Nazis is unclear but estimates put the number at 10,000 - 15,000. 3 - In November 1935 a decision was taken to expand the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, to include the Roma and Sinti: ‘Gypsies’. While ‘most estimates put the figure in the 190,000-250,000 range, there is a possibility that it could be as high as half a million. 4- The murder of 3.3 million Soviet POWs seems to be forgotten, and the Nazi genocide of Poles (in which at least 1.8 million non-Jewish Poles were murdered) is barely mentioned. The persecution of political opponents also appears largely overlooked, even though the first concentration camps targeted these victims, and an understanding of this initial period of terror is important in understanding the later development of Nazi violence and genocide. - Although black people were also a favored target of the genocide perpetrated by us (the humans species), most of these were of the same "RACE" caucasian of different faith, some were jewish other christian catholic, protestant. This was not the first or last genocide, our species has the ability to destroy itself and its environment with little guilt or shame or regards for its descendants. This must change if we want to live. WE MUST RESPECT AND HONOR ALL LIFE. Why not start today. When you look at anyone remember we are ONE. Connected energetically by a field of consciousness that is a mere 99.999...9% of everything that is in the universe. Just say "Aloha" –I see the Divine in you (whatever the Divine means to you is fine) Visit holocausteducation.org.uk/teacher-resources/subject-knowledge for more.

Barbara Jeanne Abhaya Aldridge

The show is called "The View," after all. Aren't those entertainers featured on the show allowed to have their own view? It's really just a bunch of people offering their own opinions and thoughts, their "views" on the issues of the day. And look at all the conversation her comment engendered.

Jeffrey Stoecker

They shouldn't mess with Whoopi. She's an old soul that's jumped some grooves.

I think the best response she could have offered would have been "Okay. I understand now. Just to avoid problems, though, what other distinct races are out there, in that sea of white faces, that I should be aware of. I need a list, please."

Jeffrey Stoecker

It seems like I get asked on forms several times a year what my race and/or ethnicity is. Jewish is never one of the choices. If we're going to start going after people for being on the wrong side of this, we really need to change all the forms. This could be what's causing some of the confusion.

Fr. Matthew Arælius

Jews are part of a religion, not an ethnic group. Racism doesn't occur until there are different races. Humans are all the same race. There has been no speciation for 60000 - 100,000 years. These are all facts and as such are irrefutable. What we exhibit as a species is bigotry, prejudice, and fear against other ethnic groups, sub cultures, and members of a particular sex. Again, these are facts. Whooping Goldberg is an enlightened individual who bears out wisdom with her platform. Fact. Whooping Goldberg is awesome. Opinion.

Br'er George

If anything proves jewish people are victims with absolutely no power or control over media in America this is it!

Now, let's see how fast ULC censors me for "antisemitism" for saying that.

SHAME ON YOU WHOOPI!

YOU OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER THAN TO SAY THAT OUT LOUD!

EVEREYBODY KNOWS YOU BETTER NOT SAY WHAT YOU SAID! SO SHAME ON YOU WHOOPI GOLDBERG!!!

Brother Phil

Whoopie should be fired! All she does is instigate by putting or fishing for issues that start division.

Eugene Evans

She evidently thinks that race only refers to the black people. She must have skipped history class or slept thru it or maybe she can't read. For someone like her to think like that sure are an offense to God.

Shango MasterExorcist, D.D.

My Rabbi is Black. And, may I say, he plays very cool saxophone. He does not belong to the "black race" or to the Jewish race". Last time I went to school, if one male and one female can breed together, they by biological definition, belong to the same race. There is no black race, and there is no Jewish race.

We are blessed by a large variety of ethnic groups that make our lives more interesting. As a race, there is one human race.

I do doubt William Dusenberry's conclusion that the "Holy Ghost" is a Jew, but I do have to agree that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, if they were real people, were all Jews. And the mathematical probability that anybody on ULC not sharing their Jewish DNA is very small.

Rev Mark D

With some people, when they get older, their brain shrinks to the size of a peanut.

Gary Richard Noce

Please do not cancel Ms. Goldberg. I understood what she was trying to say and it is true. BUT, Her choice of words was not thought well enough.

John Komorowski

I agree with you. The entire cast of the view are nothing but leftist schills.

Kendra Michelle

Why does everything and everyone we don't immediately understand need to be canceled? Why does an opinion or a different perspective spark outrage and not a conversation?

Arthur Jay North

Whoopi has long been an ally of the Jewish people. I understand where she's coming from and agree with her, to the extent that you most often would have to ask a (white) Jewish person if they were Jewish but you don't need to ask a black person if they're black. I feel her critics' argument is stuck in the same revisionist, hairsplitting genre as the plethora of the 'gender' one. Words, details, facts matter. We need to spend more time and effort accomodating, understanding, tolerating and accepting each other instead of playing 'gotcha' at every opportunity. We end up fighting among ourselves, which is just what the racists and white supremacist want. Wake up!

Rev Ned

As Shakespeare wrote, “Much Ado About Nothing.” Since the Israelis and Arabs are both semites, what of their dislike (dare I say hatred) of each other? I’m reminded of Mark Twain’s quote, “The most intolerable thing for a man to see is his faults in someone else.”

Marie Diana Briguglio

Her statement was valid for her experience as a black American. Bottom line it’s not a good time to be a women!!!

Glen Dean Pollard

Yes not just suspended but fired! This group continuously has false information on it . It also needs to be cancelled ! The View has fired others for less. I say drop her like a hot potato ! Pray for her to change her false believes but she needs to be out of there !

Richard Lee Cornell

If the Jews were a race then the Catholic Italians are a race. What better way to say that anyone not Blue eye, blond hair Germany is a inferior race. No wonder that Hitler had a problem with those Germans who did meet that standard. It could be said about those who believe in Allah are a different race. At least when the NAZI were in Northern Africa they stood by Hitler standards killing off anyone that did not match German standards

Karen M Butler

It opened a conversation to better understanding and that's how we move forward. I was raised in a very prejudice, old wives tales, paranoia, mentally ill family. As an ever growing and maturing adult, I have had to do the homework, read opinions from all sides to make my own decisions as to what is the truth. I continue to do so. I do believe that what is taught to children, and I stress 'children', should be done so in small doses. Our children are bombarded daily with sex and violence in all forms of media. It's not that they can't understand history, it's that it needs to be presented as history to learn from and not to be repeated. Yet, when they walk out of the classroom, they see their own family members, their parents, and community acting in a violent manner protesting saying violent things following the crowd. How does this help them understand what happened in the past when they are still living in it?

Daniel Gray

And now she is threatening to quit because they suspended her because of her big mouth. If I were her boss I would tell her thanks for quitting, have a nice life. And then warn the rest of the crew that verbal crap spewing like this will not be tolerated by any of them and the next time they make a statement like this they can see themselves on the unemployment line as well. Crap like this HAS to stop no matter who its from.

Richard David Atwood

Whoopi has 0 talent, 0 personality, 0 looks, 0 acting ability, and lest than 0 brains. She has 0 influence on anything of any importance. Who cares what she has to say. The problems concerning this country as well as the world itself are much more important than anything Whoopi has to say. Stop talking about useless people with big mouths and worry about the loud mouth criminals that are causing the problems. The cartel mafia criminal government that is taking money and freedom away from you, me and everyone else on this planet who are not a member of their mafia club. Whoopi WHO?

Bishop William Dusenberry, DD

Good people do good things;

And, bad people do bad things;

But, all that it takes to get good people to do bad things;

Is religion.

Remember, the Christian God is a Jew;

His son is a Jew

The Holy Ghost is a Jew

And so is the Virgin Mary.

And, and, because Adam and Eve were Jewish

That means everyone alive has Jewish ancestors.

Whether we like it or not.

Robin Anne Hannon

It was definitely a racial issue. In her mind if you can see a persons race cleaning your black then that’s valid everything else is up for grabs. That part was wrong. It is not a fair to say this was both racial and man’s inhumanity to man. I think her biggest mistake was to say that the only race that’s valid is her own. Should she be fired? How about instead she goes to a synagogue and gets educated and uses her position to advocate for the Jewish people that would even be better. She has appropriated a last name that is Jewish she might as well do something good can come out of this mess.

Gary Richard Noce

Her comments were stupid. She knows better. I don't know why she said it. She needs to think before she opens her mouth. She needs to remember humility again and acknowledge her mistakes as simple wrong and stupid. We don't need this kind of stuff. Especially from a celliberty of her weight. There are too many bigots saying these untruths , we don't need it from her.

Marion Wolfe

Whoopsie Goldberg. Has anyone made this joke yet?

Thom

First off, The View is a propaganda machine for the left. They let one conservative on, attack them at any moment and then, wait for the replacement.

Second, the liberals are told what to say and when and, as usual, are told not to think. But, when one of them goes off script and speaks their own mind, stupidity reigns.

Rosanne Barr was fired for much less and yet Whoopi was suspended for 2 weeks. What a slap on the wrist. Honestly, I am amazed Whoopie's liberal partner Joy stayed on the set. I honestly don't think they know how to insult each other only insult the ones who they are told are bad.

I have to agree with one statement made on here, only people who are unable to change the channel watch the view. This show has gone beyond the limits of what is good. When I watched this rant, I just sat amazed and laughed.

The View should be removed and replaced with something which is balanced and allows both sides to have their opinions and to respect each other. But we know this will never happen.

randy c. ford

Whoopi culturally misappropriated a Jewish last name, then denies the Holocaust. She canceled herself. Is she trying to get the space on the back of the Fauchahontus dollar bill?

Carl Bernard Elfstrom

Ehrman, I do listen to dull and ignorant people, like Daniel Gray, and flugo, through which I have learned a lot about how I never want to be.

Ann

I don't like Whoopi, and I don't like what she said but I don't think she should have been suspended. This is a program with mean,hateful women doing their best to stir up hate and division and that's what she was doing. It's the fact that people watch them that I find unsettling. If there is hate in a persons heart there will be someone willing to show them where to direct it.

Carl Bernard Elfstrom

Has anyone seen Danielle Gray ? I just want to let her know that her slip is showing from under her dress.

Lionheart

There’s something very dark about this woman 🤭

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Carl Bernard Elfstrom

I wonder if Whoopi (cushion) has memorized the lyrics of the song Slim Shady.

David Patrick Shearer

SERIOUSLY??? Here I was thinking this is a place for educated and RESPECTFUL people, but alas, just hateful comments below. SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!

Schneur Rosenberg

I don't think it came from antisemitism, I think it coes from ignorance and stupidity, she is in a position with lots of power over the brains of millions, a person with that power should be smart and educated, what she has done proves she is neither, she needs to go,

Marsha Lynn Goldstein

The Nazis weren’t racist per se. Hitler wanted to create a “master race” described as white, Aryan males, 6’ tall, muscular. That was one of the purposes for the “genetic testing” experiments. Nothing personal against everyone else.

James Ralph Bowen

You have really got to love some of the ignorant comments on here. People who want to forgive her because she apologized, except she never apologized. All she did was explain and try to justify what she said. There was never an apology. She never said she was sorry. There are other people on here I say we have missed a good opportunity for a debate. Clearly these are non thinkers. Anyone who has ever talked to a liberal knows there is no debate with a liberal. It is part of their core belief system and they will go to their grave believing it regardless of how much proof you produce. Liberals always put themselves and the position to where they want you to prove something to them. From this position of perceived power you can never prove anything to them and they automatically win the argument because they are the judge. You are casting your Pearls Before Swine when you even try to talk to these people. The Bible talks against taking counsel with the wicked and sitting in the seat of the scornful. Or taking counsel with fools. Which is why I don't even talk to liberals. I think it's remarkable that so many people on here don't know the Bible but they all know the one about judging. And they quoted like it's a pistol on their hip during the American Midwest. The word judge means to declare someone guilty and punish them for whatever a crime calls for. That does not mean we have to be fools and don't know the difference between right and wrong. It also does not mean we cannot identify wrongdoers and not have anything to do with them. So many people misunderstand basics out of ignorance. Other people just repeat what they hear like a parrot. Not really caring enough to look it up on their own. They would rather be politically correct and wrong than factually correct and right. And for all the people out there worried about canceling her show. Why didn't you guys stand up for all the other people who had their shows canceled for a lot less? And people like her are the ones who did it. I mean fair is fair all the way across the board. But more than this issue I don't understand why people who claim to be ministers would be watching that filth in the first place. Why would you watch a council of demons spinning lies on television? The evil just drips off these people. If you cannot tell they are evil chances are you've been infected with it yourself. You are only blind to it if you want to be blind to it. God is not a respecter of persons. It says so in the Bible. But apparently a lot of people on here are. I guess she get some extra Slack for having a filthy mouth and making a couple of movies in the 80s that were mildly entertaining. Or was it the fact the Liberals producing Star Trek next Generation put her on the show as the all-wise guinan? Is that why you people respect her so much? Because she was a bartender who knew secrets? I know there's not a lot of choices on television anymore. But in a day and age of the internet you guys could go on YouTube and watch old Johnny Carson episodes or some other show and be better off than watching these clowns. You think you are learning stuff by watching them but everything they are putting out is a lie. They may talk about current events but they are putting a spin on it. And outright lying. So what do you have to gain by watching it compared to a 40 year old Carson episode? At least he was funny. And at least you didn't feel bad when the show is over because of all the hate dripping off the cast members.

John Komorowski

Check your facts (most are wrong). Learn history,(yours is a muddled sense of mish mash that makes no dense). Get educated. Learn to spell. Post comments intelligibly. You just may be taken seriously then.

John P Maher

YEAH RIGHT CANCEL WHOOPIE, BUTT LET the G O Pig FARM RNC SPREAD LIES, RACISM, and NAZI PROPAGANDA DAILY OVER the INFO LINKKKs, WAKE UP A hos, CAUSE YER GOD AIN"T GONNA HELP YA !!! HOW ABOUT CANCELING the G O Pig FARM F O R E V E R !!! THEY ARE FILTHY CORRUPT ANTI DEMOCRATIC NAZI PIG FARMERs !!!

Kim E. Fletcher

While I disagree with how Whoopi handled her comment, I do feel that she is correct on many levels. Man's Inhumanity and Attitudes towards other people are the reason why we are in this predicament. How we treat each other on a daily basis will dictate how others treat us. We Are All God's children, and we should strive to be more righteous and compassionate when dealing with other people. We come from many races, creeds, and walks of life. Why can't we all just learn to get a long? Hopefully, in her time of suspension, Ms. Goldberg will contemplate and discern her comments and how to better deliver them with poise and integrity. Let's be supportive of each other.

Jean

I realize that Hitler thought there was a "Jewish race". He set out to eliminate what he thought of as "inferior races". It is unfortunate he didn't know the difference between a religion & a fabricated concept that is genetically false - "race". I acknowledge that there is as much solidarity among many Jewish people as there is within some "races", thus tending to lend credence to the idea that the Jews are a race of people. But one cannot inherit a religion. My mother was Catholic when I was born. I did not inherit her Catholicism. My maternal grandmother was described to me as being half Portuguese, half Jewish. But that was an inaccurate description. She was Portuguese & had one parent who happened to be of the Jewish faith. Now, nothing I have said should serve to denigrate the people who were victimized during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a horrible occurrence that has traumatized many, many people, & we should never forget that it occurred, we should never forget that Hitler was trying to eradicate people he viewed as inferior, or that he thought of the Jews as members of a race. I don't dispute any of that. However... I think Whoopi can recognize racial discrimination when she experiences it, as she has experienced it all her life. I understand her statement about it being two groups of white people - Hitler did target members of several races, but the Jews were white, as were the Nazis. She needs a little remedial history regarding some of the issues pertinent to the Holocaust, but she was not "dissing every Jew in existence". She doesn't need to be suspended, or fired. Just because you don't like her politics, or her gender, or her skin color, none of that means she deserves 'corporal punishment'. And she certainly isn't the first host nor will she be the last host on The View to say something absolutely bone-headed. So. She's a tough old broad, she's been around the block. She'll be back stronger, wiser, & with her dignity & self-assurance intact, in spite of the racists & white supremacists trying to take advantage of this opportunity to "put a ------- in her place". She needs to be put back in her place, in her chair at the west end of the table on the show.

John

It won't take long for the ACLU to get involved if they're not already. A much needed organization that warrants everyones support.

Scott Richard Garrett

I think her suspension was an over reaction. She brings up a point that could be discussed. It wasn't antisemitism or holocaust denial. Race is a construct, so she's correct in a way. The construct of race was used to demonize Jewish people, and they were treated as inhuman. The race part was constructed for propaganda purposes, but the inhumanity of human actions maimed and killed people. We are all humans, regardless of the concept of being different races.

D'Anthony Eugene Massey

I totally agree with Whoopi, this wasn’t a race matter, it was a moral and religious matter. We are so quick to say race in another country but do not want to deal with the true race war within the US. First, Jew is a religious group not a color of people. Technically, the true Hebrews are of color and the Jews of today was indoctrinated in Judaism. If we will take the time to pull back the lies, maybe we can accept the real truth.

Joshua Holt

I may live under a rock, but this story is the first I have heard about this as I’ve tried to somewhat limit my intake of inflammatory negativity of the news cycle and social media.

That said, again this being my only reference to the story, I appreciate Whoopi’s apology for pain caused. But at the same time, i agree with her sentiments based on my understanding of the Holocaust.

Im not Jewish, but I am gay. I have always been taught that while the Jewish community is by far the largest victims of the Nazi regime’s systematic efforts to while out whole peoples, they weren’t alone. Gays, Jehovahs Witnesses, mental health sufferers, disabled people, Romani peoples, black people were all included in the list of targets by what I was taught.

The anti-defamation groups have done a really great job of keeping the memory of the holocaust and its impact on the Jewish community in our minds, but I take Goldbergs comments here to be reflective of what I was taught: that people can be extremely evil to other people and simplifying that down to “racism” leaves out incredibly important lessons about humanity and society that need to be grappled with- including racism, but not limited to it.

I hope that that is the ultimate narrative that comes out of this debate. Not just further entrenching that Jews were persecuted by the nazis- though that is true and should NEVER be forgot.

Pastor Charlene, Ph.D

Being born Jewish and converting to Christianity, I have but one thing to say.... " Shut up Whoopi!"

John Peter Dugan

She's right it was about a want to be leader using hate to gain power, does that remind you of anyone?