Whoopi Goldberg suspended after spreading Holocaust misinformation on ABC’s The View

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February 2, 2022
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NEW YORK, NY – ABC has suspended radical progressive liberal talk show host Whoopi Goldberg from the daytime talk show, The View after spreading holocaust misinformation on the program a day earlier.

“The Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race,” Goldberg said Monday while the panel of “The View” discussed a Tennessee school district that voted to remove the book  “Maus,” Art Spiegelman, from its curriculum.

The Holocaust references the extermination of over 6,000,000 people, mostly Jews during the reign of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. Hitler exterminated Jews, barred them from working and being part of German society. Hitler claimed Jews were of an inferior race and claimed his own European white race was the “Master Race”.

The Holocaust was indeed a horrific time in human history where people were killed simply because they were not of the right race. Goldberg, whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson adopted the name “Whoopi Goldberg” as a stage name when she started in show business. She claims she is of Jewish heritage and that Goldberg was a family name.

Fox News Host Dana Perino today accused Goldberg of “culturally appropriating” the Jewish surname.

Later in the day on Monday, Goldberg apologized for her comments.

“On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man,’” Goldberg posted to Twitter. “I should have said it is about both. As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systemic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected.”

ABC News President Kim Godwin said Goldberg has been suspended from the network.

“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” Godwin said in a statement the network posted on Twitter. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time and reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”

Phil Stilton

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