Whoopi Goldberg apparently hasn’t realized her lesson, repeating her previous controversial views on the Holocaust by which she claimed the genocide was not “racial” however relatively a type of “white-on-white” crime.
“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 we’re probably not a race,’” Goldberg advised the Sunday Times of London in an interview selling her new film “Till,” the New York Postreviews.
“It wasn’t originally” about race, Goldberg insisted, noting the Nazis additionally killed individuals they believed to be “mentally defective.”
When interviewer Janice Turner pushed again with a well-known chorus — saying the Nazi’s thought-about Jews a race — Goldberg stated it was flawed to make use of their definition.
“The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?” she insisted.
“It doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them. That was the point I was making. But you would have thought that I’d taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked,” Goldberg continued.
Goldberg, a co-host of The View, was briefly suspended from the present in February after first airing her opinions on the topic. She nonetheless doubled down throughout an interview with late-night host Stephen Colbert, earlier than later apologizing.
“I get it. Folks are angry. I accept that and I did it to myself. This was my thought process and I will work hard not to think that way again,” she stated after the preliminary imbroglio.
“I get it. I’m going to take your word for it and never bring it up again.”
This story initially appeared in The New York Post and was republished with permission.
Originally revealed as Whoopi Goldberg defends previous Holocaust slurs, says genocide was a “white-on-white” crime
