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Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from “The View” for two weeks
after facing wide criticism for her remarks that the Holocaust was
“not about race.”

Goldberg’s suspension was announced in a statement released by ABC
News public relations on Tuesday night.

“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two
weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” reads a statement
attributed to Kim Godwin, president at ABC News. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about
the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands
in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and
communities.”

Goldberg’s comments on “The View” reached the highest level of
decision makers at Disney, Variety can confirm. According to
sources, Peter Rice, the chairman of Disney General Entertainment
Content, was consulted on the public fallout for Goldberg.

Goldberg’s remarks emerged during a conversation on Monday’s
broadcast of “The View,” in which the co-hosts discussed a Tennessee
school board’s ban of “Maus,” a nonfiction graphic novel about
cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s father’s experience surviving the
Holocaust.

“Let’s be truthful about it because [the] Holocaust isn’t about
race,” Goldberg said on Monday’s episode. “It’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”

The remarks drew immediate, sweeping criticism from Jewish
organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and the U.S.
Holocaust Museum.

“The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systemic annihilation of the
Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race,” wrote
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. “They
dehumanized them and used their racist propaganda to justify
slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous.”

Later Monday, Goldberg apologized for her remarks on social media.
She then offered an on-air apology on Tuesday’s episode of “The
View.” Greenblatt also appeared as a guest on the broadcast.

“So yesterday on our show, I misspoke,” Goldberg said at the top of
the show. “I said that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and it was
instead about man’s inhumanity to man. But it is indeed about race,
because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior
race. Now, words matter and mine are no exception. I regret my
comments as I said and I stand corrected. I also stand with the
Jewish people, as they know, and as you all know because I’ve always
done that.”

https://news.yahoo.com/whoopi-goldberg-suspended-view-holocaust-
024414739.html

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