Angry viewers are demanding Whoopi Goldberg’s dismissal from ABC after The View host reiterated her belief that the Holocaust wasn’t about race in an interview.
Whoopi Goldberg, whose actual name is Caryn Johnson, sparked outrage earlier this year when she claimed on air that the Holocaust wasn’t about race.
She apologised after an angry backlash, and ABC suspended her for two weeks but stopped short of firing her, a determination which riled network employees.
This week, she doubled down on the comments in an interview with The Times of London, saying that they were killing people they considered to be mentally impaired, and then they made this decision.
She also claimed to have been cancelled unfairly, despite still having her high-paying career.
Now, many of those who criticised her in February at the time of the original offence, are calling for her to be fired or to step down.
The Times of Israel called her remarks inflammatory while Holocaust survivors and Jewish journalists said she’d learned nothing, and that Whoopi Goldberg continues to use the Holocaust as her punching bag, and that she was told that her comments hurt them but she just didn’t care.
Holocaust survivor and author Lucy Lipiner, 89, tweeted that she’d survived the Nazis and the Holocaust, so she will be damned if she lets a comedy has been, hawking a phoney Jewish name get the better of her.
Lipiner’s book, Long Journey Home, tells how she escaped Nazi Germany with her parents as a child said that Whoopi Goldberg’s apology and two-week hiatus from The View didn’t actually mean much, did it?
Joel Petlin said that he was starting to believe that Holocaust education isn’t enough to change the Antisemitic beliefs that are profoundly entrenched in many celebs with enormous platforms.
Eve Barlow, a Jewish journalist who was among those to voice out against Whoopi Goldberg in February, also pointed out her false claim that she was cancelled, and that could someone tell Whoopi that she can’t be cancelled for anti-Semitism while still being given a platform on mainstream media.
Human rights attorney Arsen Ostrovsky tweeted that after her supposed apology, Whoopi Goldberg doubles down on her disgusting remarks that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and instead white-on-white violence.
Ari Ingel, who runs the Creative Community for Peace, a not-for-profit set up to fight anti-Semitism in the film industry, said anti-Semitism was deeply embedded in Whoopi Goldberg.
Whoopi Goldberg is another person who will never be happy no matter what.
Whoopi has been cancelled because of the opinions that she holds, and in this case, she actually does need to be sent out to pastures of retirement.
She’s either foolish or very naive, and when spewing views on such an important topic, then you actually can’t afford to be either, and yes, she has been a fantastic comedian and actress but now it’s time for her to depart.
This is one of those cases where someone who is good at what she does is then given a media pedestal outside their intellect and ability, and just because someone is recognised for what they do doesn’t mean their intellect is intelligent enough to have an opinion. Of course, everyone is entitled to their view, but at least have the intelligence to go with it, or just keep it to yourself – this is how wars are started.
It’s called freedom of speech, not freedom of reach. Whoopi is paid to do a job on a broadcasting platform, and that’s what she should be doing, not spewing her opinion there.
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