The View: Whoopi Goldberg APOLOGIZES for Holocaust Comments

The 66-year-old talk show host is apologizing for the controversial comments she made about the Holocaust on Monday’s 'The View.’

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[Bliggick]

When you say you were misunderstood that is not an apology. It is trying to shift blame and I think most people understood what she was trying to claim on the View.

[pamelahermano]

If a Conservative had said that they would have been fired on the spot.

[americandream]

The whole point of this show is to talk about opinions....right? Wrong! The makers of the show are basically admitting that it is a show meant to make everyone view things the way they do. When the show gets to determine what your opinions are, it becomes indoctrination camp and is no longer a free flowing conversation. The whole show needs to be canceled.

[TheRealCcE]

That apology was gaslighting. Instead of calling her words idiotic, she is blaming others out for misunderstanding. Narcissism at is finest.

[Rob]

"Sorry people are offended by my beliefs" isn't a apology.

[bradspringer]

How can someone (especially in the media) not realize the ignorance of the comments she made? People have been "cancelled" for much less.

[Bert]

"It's your fault for misunderstanding me so I will explain why you're wrong and make you understand me"-Whoopi

[JudyZimShadHomesteader]

It was about race. The concept in Nazi ideology in which the putative "Aryan race" is deemed the pinnacle of human racial hierarchy. Members of this alleged master race were referred to as "Herrenmenschen" ("master humans")

By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was postulated that Indo-Europeans (who were generally referred to as "Aryans") made up the highest branch of humanity because their civilization was the most technologically advanced. This reasoning was simultaneously intertwined with Nordicism, which proclaimed that the "Nordic race" was the "purest" form of the Aryan race. Today, this view is regarded as a form of scientific racism and contradicts the belief in racial equality by advocating the view that one race is superior to all other races.

The Nazis declared that the Aryans were superior to all other races, and believed they were entitled to expand territorially. The actual policy that was implemented by the Nazis resulted in the Aryan certificate. This document, which was required by law for all citizens of the Reich, was the "Lesser Aryan certificate" (Kleiner Ariernachweis) and could be obtained through an Ahnenpass, which required the owner to trace their lineage through baptism, birth certificates, or certified proof thereof that all grandparents were of "Aryan descent".

The Slavs, Gypsies, and Jews were defined as being racially inferior and non-Aryan "Untermenschen", and were thus considered to be a danger to the Aryan or Germanic master race. According to the Nazi secret Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost, the Slavic population was to be removed from Central Europe through expulsion, enslavement, starvation, and extermination, [except for a small percentage who were deemed to be non-Slavic descendants of Germanic settlers, and thus suitable for Germanisation

In the hierarchy of Nazi racism, the "Aryans" were the superior race, destined to rule the world after the destruction of their racial arch-foe, the Jews. The lesser races over whom the Germans would rule included the Slavs — Poles, Russians, Ukrainians. ... Hitler's racial policy with regard to the Slavs, to the extent that it was formulated, was "depopulation." The Slavs were to be prevented from procreating, except to provide the necessary continuing supply of slave laborers.

[trobinson]

I hate forced apologies from the elite. She meant what she said...

[tamilee]

She needs to go away. The entire show should go away.

[maryross]

It’s a gross and ignorant statement- what surprised me was big mouth Joy not screaming at her and walking out like she’s done for far lesser things

[Dr.M.Driver]

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"

[olgalozano]

That was not an apology, that was her being angry for the suspension and people not agreeing with her

[dpb]

When she says the world, she actually means America!

[hopeavera]

So we are supposed to accept what she calls an apology? I'm sorry but with all the people she has hurt with what she has to say in the past, no. Apology not accepted. What goes around comes around and Whoopi, it's your turn.

[peterplus]

She called for Joe Rogan and other people's view points to be silenced....did she think she was protected when free speach fails?

[shaek]

And yet she’s still blaming everyone else for “misunderstanding her”!
What a joke! So hypocritical and disgusting!

[caljim]

She’s become completely ethnocentric and consumed by bigotry and hate. Very sad.

[yousra]

I don't understand why this is an issue. I live in Western Europe. We have been educated about the second world war and the hollocaust all through primary school and high school. And each year on November 11th we've a national holiday on which we remember the end of the war and victims. We've always been taught that Jews were targeted because of their religion and because of their supposed wealth and problems they caused. (Which obviously was not correct, they used them as scapegoats to justify their ideas) Never have I heard that they were targeted because of their race..

[thechurchladytm]

Society is too sensitive for me. They don’t even have this much compassion towards slavery in their own country smh. This is pure selective outrage.