Fans of The View are calling for Whoopi Goldberg to be fired for her latest comments about the Holocaust.
This occasion now being the second time the 67-year-old has caused backlash over comments about the Holocaust, with the first coming earlier in 2022 after a school in Tennessee made the decision to ban the graphic novel, Maus.
In Tennessee, a school board banned “Maus,” a graphic novel about the Holocaust, from being taught because it has cursing AND nudity. If swearing and nudity are the worst parts of the Holocaust for you, maybe rethink your life.
— Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (@FullFrontalSamB) February 11, 2022
At the time, Goldberg had said that the “Holocaust isn’t about race” and went on to call the extreme atrocity of million of Jewish people being murdered “man’s inhumanity to man.”
The host later apologized for her comments and said that the Holocaust was both about race and man’s inhumanity to man after Jewish people and organizations explained that the Nazis targeted Jews for genocide because they say them as an ‘inferior race.’
The latest comments come from an interview that Goldberg did with The Times that was published on Christmas Eve.
She said:
“My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race’.”
The interviewer then added that:
‘Nazis saw Jews as a race’.
Goldberg 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?”
“It wasn’t originally. 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.”
The host has since apologized, again, saying:
“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.”
