We're All Whoopi Goldberg Now

[TheRealNorth]

1. This all seems kind of a stupid nothingburger distraction to me...

So the problem is that some 19th Century antisemites classified Jews as another race, and Whoopi Goldberg initially refused to validate that classification of the Jewish people that way because in her experience race was mostly based on skin tone?

From a historical sense, you can say that the Nazi's thought of the Jews as a race, and that is part of what motivated the Holocaust. But I fail to see why validating the racial classifications of the Nazis is important today.

I mean, who decided is a group of people is a race or an ethnic group? Does the group decide? And who in that group decides? I tend to favor academic consensus based on some sort of definition, but that is just me.