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Whoopi Goldberg provided her “sincerest apologies” on Monday “for the damage I've prompted” by saying on The View earlier within the day that there was nothing racial concerning the Holocaust.
Discussing a Tennessee faculty board’s ban of the award-winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus, Goldberg had stated Adolf Hitler’s “Closing Answer” was “not about race”—despite the fact that the Holocaust was set in movement over Nazism’s perception in an Aryan “grasp race.”
This led ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to reply. “No @WhoopiGoldberg, the #Holocaust was concerning the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish individuals—who they deemed to be an inferior race.” he tweeted. “They dehumanized them and used this racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is harmful. #ENOUGH”.
In her subsequent apology, Goldberg wrote that “On right this moment’s present, I stated the Holocaust ‘will not be about race, however about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I ought to have stated it's about each.” She added that “The Jewish individuals all over the world have all the time had my help, and that may by no means waiver.”