In 2022, Whoopi Goldberg faced criticism for insensitive remarks she made about the Holocaust — twice. In February, during a segment on “The View” discussing a Tennessee school’s decision to ban a graphic novel about the Holocaust, titled “Maus,” Goldberg said, “Let’s be truthful, the Holocaust isn’t about race; it’s not.” She continued, “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man; that’s what it’s about. These are two groups of white people.”
After facing backlash, the actor-turned-talk show host took to her X, formerly Twitter, account to apologize, stating, “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both. I stand corrected.” She has since deleted the tweet. Despite her apology, ABC, the network hosting “The View,” suspended Goldberg for two weeks.
However, the incident didn’t stop Goldberg from repeating her mistakes, literally. In December 2022, Goldberg reiterated her statement about the WW2 tragedy, claiming again that the Holocaust wasn’t racially motivated in an interview with The Sunday Times. “You could not tell a Jew on a street,” she said, adding that the Jewish people shouldn’t have believed the Nazis when they identified them as a race. After facing further criticism, Goldberg issued an apology to Entertainment Tonight, stating, “My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not,” and added that she had a lot to learn.
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