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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhoopi Goldberg Criticized By Anti-Defamation League for 'Holocaust Distortion' on 'The View'
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, responded to The View co-hosts comments on Twitter, calling her remarks dangerous.
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Goldbergs comments came during a discussion on the program regarding a Tennessee school boards ban of Maus, a nonfiction graphic novel about cartoonist Art Spiegelmans fathers experience surviving the Holocaust.
Lets be truthful about it because [the] Holocaust isnt about race, Goldberg said on Mondays episode. Its not about race. Its about mans inhumanity to man These are two white groups of people. The minute you turn it into race it goes down this alley. Lets talk about it for what it is. Its [about] how people treat each other. It doesnt matter if youre Black or white, Jews its each other.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/whoopi-goldberg-holocaust-the-view-1235168113/
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Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)It was about race.
Nazi propaganda said otherwise.
It was about race.
The words of Hitler said otherwise.
It was about race.
Take the seven-chapter online course, Ms. Goldberg.
Learn something.
MichMan
(11,864 posts)demmiblue
(36,816 posts)Phoenix61
(16,992 posts)Hitler claiming there was doesnt make it so. The Holocaust was religious persecution on a horrific scale. I dont understand how saying it wasnt racist gets equated to denying the horror of what happened.
leftstreet
(36,097 posts)It's annoying
She could do her viewers an actual service by interviewing Holocaust survivors, academics, researchers and journalists. Instead these celebrities make themselves the story
ugh
SomedaysDiamonds
(3 posts)She is a bully....thinks her opinions matter. The view is a horrible show. Arrogance and ignorance are her best friends.
Sympthsical
(9,028 posts)It's up there with her, "But it wasn't rape rape," to defend Roman Polanski.