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Whoopi Goldberg doubled down on her comment that the Holocaust “isn’t about race.”
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She told The Times of London that she “couldn’t talk to a Jew on the street” but “could find me”.
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Golberg made a similar comment in January before being temporarily suspended from “The View.”
Whoopi Goldberg said the Holocaust “It’s not about race” It was made before she suspended co-hosting of the TV talk show “The View” in February.
in a new interview with The Times of LondonGoldberg said the Holocaust was not “originally” about race.
“Remember who they were killing first. I was killing people,” she said.
She also questioned whether Jews were a “race” compared to herself as a black person.
“It doesn’t change the fact that you couldn’t talk to a Jew on the street,” Goldberg said. “You could find me. You couldn’t find them. That’s the point I was making. You would have thought I had bare my butt.”
The Nazis defined Jews as a race and murdered 6 million people to wipe them out of the population. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
When asked about the fact that the Nazis classified Jews as a race, Goldberg replied:
Goldberg made his first comment on the Holocaust in “The View” on January 31. Tennessee Board of Education Ban Decision Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Mouse” is based on the Holocaust.
She said the Holocaust was “what white people do to white people” and that it wasn’t about race, it was about “men being inhumane to men.”
After the comments, Goldberg sparked widespread criticism, which led to her apology at the time.
“I am sorry for the hurt I caused,” Goldberg said in a statement following her comments. It was the systematic extermination of the Jews that they regarded.’ I am in a corrected state.”
Neither Goldberg nor representatives for The View immediately responded to an insider’s request for comment.
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