Whoopi Goldberg responds to backlash about her latest comments about the Holocaust.
Though we’re closing in on New Year’s Eve, it may feel a bit like Groundhog Day.is again apologizing to the Jewish community after appearing to repeat offensive comments about the Holocaust, for which she hadRecently 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.
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.
In case you don’t recall what started all this, the comedian, actress, and EGOT-winner was at her regular perch on’s award-winning graphic novel. The book, a memoir work in which the author reimagines his family’s experiences in the Holocaust with cartoon animal stand-ins, wasby a Tennessee school district, ostensibly due to “rough, objectionable language” and a depiction of nudity.referred
to the destruction of European Jews as “white people doing it to white people, so y’all gonna fight amongst yourselves.” She added, “If you’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it, because the Holocaust isn’t about race. It’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”
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