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2022-02-03 -Great Cultural Revolution
ABC suspends Whoopi Goldberg from ‘The View’ for ‘hurtful’ Holocaust comments
[IsraelTimes] Network tells co-host to take a two-week break ’to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments’; move comes despite apologies for saying Nazi genocide ’not about race’.
The vicious mendacity of the unthinkingly conformist Progressive. She’s a Baby Boomer, so doesn’t have the excuse of ignorance — this was all over the news the first thirty years of her life.
Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s popular "The View" talk show after an uproar over her comments in which she said the Holocaust was "not about race," the network said Tuesday night.

"Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement.

"While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Godwin said. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities."

Hours before the announcement, the Page Six entertainment news site quoted ABC sources as saying that there was mounting anger at ABC and at parent company Disney that Goldberg has not been disciplined.

"ABC staffers and Disney Network execs are saying Whoopi went way too far. And board members are not happy with her apology and want a fuller retraction. The word is that Whoopi is in ’deep shit,’" the source told Page Six, adding that several of her co-hosts were among those saying Goldberg was "too controversial now for the show."

Goldberg apologized on Monday for saying the Holocaust was not about race, comments that sparked a firestorm of controversy, but not before appearing to double down on the statement in another interview.

On Monday morning, she made the initial comments on "The View" program.

"The Holocaust isn’t about race," but rather about "man’s inhumanity to man," she said. The statement drew condemnations from Jewish groups including the Auschwitz Memorial and the Anti-Defamation League.

Later Monday, she made similar comments on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" while discussing the controversy.

"I thought it was a salient discussion because as a black person I think of race as something that I can see, so I see you and I know what race you are and the discussion was about how I felt about that," Goldberg said about her earlier statements.

"People were very angry and they said, ’No, no, we are a race,’ and I understand," Goldberg said.

Colbert asked Goldberg, "Have you come to understand that the Nazis saw it as race? Because asking the Nazis, they would say, ’Yes, it’s a racial issue.’"

She responded: "The Nazis lied. It wasn’t. They had issues with ethnicity, not with race, because most of the Nazis were white people and most of the people they were attacking were white people. So to me, I’m thinking, ’How can you say it’s about race if you are fighting each other?’"

Goldberg has also come under fire for her stage name during the controversy. Born Caryn Elaine Johnson, Goldberg has no Jewish ancestry, but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding, in part because she has said she personally identifies with Judaism. She told a London audience in 2016, "I just know I am Jewish.
No, my dear Ms Johnson, you are not. A fact for which I — as a real Jew with my mother’s (and most of her family’s) real Holocaust experience to show for it — am profoundly grateful. Bad enough that I have to share species and s3x with you without being more closely related.
I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays."
I remember Kwanzaa without practicing it, which does not make me African-American.
In 2016, she designed a Hanukkah sweater for Lord & Taylor.
That woman is a walking example of cultural appropriation.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [32 views ]  Top

#1 A no-talent ugly moronic freak. Other than that, she's America's Sweetheart
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-03 00:52||   2022-02-03 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 From the SJW view, Whoopi has a point. "Race" means black and white. Jews are whites. Therefore Germans vs. Jews was just an intra-white squabble and had nothing to do with race. This isn't some fringe view, it's what the professors at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. all think, and it's what they're teaching their students. Moreover, with the browning of America, people are less interested in the quarrels of Old Europe. It has nothing to do with them and they don't see why they should care. Do Americans care about the ancient hatreds between the Burmans and the Shan? Of course not.

Also from her point of view, she's Jewish, so she's talking about her own people. Goldberg, remember? If you can change your gender identity at will, why not your ethnic identity? It makes perfect sense.

This is why you study your enemy: you can know what they're thinking instead of dismissing them as idiots. This is why the right keeps getting its ass kicked in the culture war, not bothering to grok what is really going on. If anyone would like an education, here's a good start:

Posted by Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-02-03 02:54||   2022-02-03 02:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Born Caryn Elaine Johnson, Goldberg has no Jewish ancestry, but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding

She’s Rachel Dolezal in reverse. And meanly parochial in her understanding, though she plays up the idea that she is what Spike Lee calls the Magical Negro trope she played in Star Trek.

But that’s the external reality that contrasts to the SJW mind games Sheter the Lesser9291 describes.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-02-03 06:37||   2022-02-03 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 @Sheter the Lesser9291

racism
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noun
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group,

Is Whoopi Jewish? She stated she feels Jewish but not is not then same as being Jewish.
Posted by BernardZ 2022-02-03 06:41||   2022-02-03 06:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Kinda sounds like a Staged PR campaign for ratings?

Could there be a Woopie Spinout BLM type show in the making ?
Posted by NN2N1 2022-02-03 06:43||   2022-02-03 06:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I remember when she changed her name. Her point was to get attention from those she perceived controlled the entertainment industry in Hollywood. She is not or ever will be a Jew.
I would like to see her take a job as an Alec Baldwin film producer.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-02-03 06:59||   2022-02-03 06:59|| Front Page Top

#7 and of course from our paper of record.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-03 07:16||   2022-02-03 07:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Why does this follow the Monkey news?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-03 07:25||   2022-02-03 07:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Born Caryn Elaine Johnson, Goldberg ...

You mean she's actually a Karen?

has no Jewish ancestry, but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding

To make fun of Jews and Judaism? OK, I see the logic of appealing to self-hating Hollywood left-libs. High hit rate on that.

Or did she join "Whoopi" to "Goldberg" because she thought she'd get invited to more casting couches by directors who didn't ask to see a head shot and guessed she was a kinkier version of Goldie Hawn or Natalie Portman?
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-03 08:20||   2022-02-03 08:20|| Front Page Top

#10 I have no doubt she believes non-black people are white and she sees race as color of skin as she stated on Colbert's program. She was willing to take on he appearance of being Jewish in order to further her appeal as a miniority to get more recognician. Just another grifter.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-02-03 08:21||   2022-02-03 08:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Is she still getting her $94,000/week salary?
Posted by Chris 2022-02-03 09:29||   2022-02-03 09:29|| Front Page Top

#12 The View? A show with Hectoring hens about nothing.
Posted by JohnQC 2022-02-03 09:44||   2022-02-03 09:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Figures she's a "Karen", just spelled "Caryn".
Posted by Mercutio 2022-02-03 09:47||   2022-02-03 09:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Is there anyone left from TNG whose ass hasn't fallen out?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-03 10:22||   2022-02-03 10:22|| Front Page Top

#15 ABC should just fire her. The woke parts of the media would have had no hesitation in doing that for anyone violating their sensibilities.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-02-03 12:07||   2022-02-03 12:07|| Front Page Top

#16 If ABC fired her we would have one less moron to laugh at.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-02-03 13:52||   2022-02-03 13:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Call it what it is Jewaphobic racist whore.

That happens to weigh 435 pounds.
Posted by Woodrow 2022-02-03 19:50||   2022-02-03 19:50|| Front Page Top

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