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Whoopi Goldberghas issued another apology after she made a comment about the Holocaust that garnered criticism from the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish advocacy organizations.
During Monday’s episode ofThe View, Goldberg, 66, and her co-hosts were discussing the news that a Tennessee school board chose to pullMaus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel aboutthe Holocaust, from its lesson plans.
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“I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined because my words upset so many people, which was never my intention,” she said. “And I understand why now, and for that I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful and it helped me understand some different things.”
“While discussing how a Tennessee school board unanimously voted to remove a graphic novel about the Holocaust, I said that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and it was instead about man’s inhumanity to man,” Goldberg continued. “But it was indeed about race because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race.”
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He also suggested thatThe Viewhire a Jewish co-host as they continue to look for apermanent replacementforMeghan McCain.
“Think about having a Jewish host on this show who can bring these issues of antisemitism, who can bring these issues of representation toThe Viewevery single day,” Greenblatt said.
Before her live apology on Tuesday, Goldberg had shared astatementto her Twitter page, writing, “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both. As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people - who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected.”
She added, “The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused. Written with my sincerest apologies, Whoopi Goldberg.”
source: people.com
