Whoopi Goldberg Doubles Down On Her The View Comments That The Holocaust Was ‘Not About Race’

Whoopi Goldberg is as soon as once more on the middle of controversy.

In case you might not recall, the 67-year-old host made some ignorant feedback on The View in February, saying that the Holocaust was “not about race,” however fairly “about man’s inhumanity to man” that concerned “two white groups of people.” Her feedback had been shortly slammed on social media. The non-profit group Stop Antisemitism even known as her out, tweeting on the time:

“Newsflash @WhoopiGoldberg. 6 million of us were gassed, starved and massacred because we were deemed an inferior race by the Nazis. How dare you minimize our trauma and suffering!”

Following the backlash, she issued an apology on the present, saying:

“I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined because my words upset so many people, which was never my intention. And I understand why now, and for that, I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful and helped me understand some different things.”

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However, she was nonetheless suspended from the ABC present for 2 weeks. And months after the controversy, it seems Whoopi has not discovered from her errors, as she defended what she stated on The View as soon as once more! In a brand new interview with The Times of London printed on Saturday, the actress’ controversial feedback got here up — regardless of the interviewer Janice Turner being instructed earlier than the dialog to not talk about the daytime speak present. When the reporter famous that the Nazis believed the Holocaust was about race, Whoopi responded:

“Yes, 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?”

She then doubled down on her controversial remarks, saying the Holocaust “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. It doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them. That was the point I was making. But you would have thought that I’d taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked.”

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