No, Whoopi, the Holocaust Doesn't Fit Your Narrative
Once again, Whoopi Goldberg, actress and co-host of “The View,” is wrong. In a recent interview with The Times of London to promote her new film “Till,” Goldberg doubled down on her previously discredited statements on Jews, Nazis and the Holocaust.
“Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing [because of race] …. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision [to kill the Jews],” she opined.
Less than a year earlier in January 2022, Goldberg (nee Caryn Elaine Johnson) made similarly inaccurate statements. On “The View,” she insisted that the systematic killing of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler, who was obsessed with dilution of German Aryans by the Jews, was not about race. Rather, it was white-on-white crime, a white man’s “inhumanity” to white men.
While the media raged over her wildly inaccurate reading of history, Whoopi doubled down. In a subsequent appearance on late-night TV (where she had clearly been dispatched to clean up the damage), Whoopi calmly re-stated her original opinion, that the definition of race is something that can be seen.
"[The Holocaust] wasn’t based on the skin. You couldn’t tell who was Jewish. They had to delve deeply to figure it out," she said.
Her appearance on late-night TV came after she tweeted a perfunctory apology for her initial comments. Ironically, in the tweet, she said had been informed and now understood that Hitler annihilated the Jews because he deemed them to be an inferior race.
Clearly, she didn’t understand.
Whoopi Doubles Down
In the Times interview, Whoopi went back to dismissing the idea that Jews are a race. Here, she deferred to the opinion of her best friend, who is Jewish:
“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 [Jews are] probably not a race,' ” Whoopi told the Times.