Media | Actor Whoopi Goldberg claimed in the discussion program that the Holocaust was not about races – shelved for a couple of weeks

Actor and a comedian Whoopi Goldberg was shelved The View program on Tuesday after saying in the program the day before that the Holocaust “was not about race”. This was reported by the head of ABC News Kim Godwin in the bulletin.

“From now on, I will suspend Whoopi Goldberg’s work for two weeks due to his false and hurtful comments,” Godwin said in a statement. “Although Whoopi has apologized, I have asked him to reflect and learn from the implications of his comments.”

“The entire ABC News community stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, families and communities.”

Goldberg, 66, apologized for his comment later Monday At The Late Show and again In The View on Tuesday morning.

Situation started on Monday when Goldberg spoke with his colleagues View Art Spiegelman From a Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book about the Holocaust Mausthe use of which was prohibited by the school board in Tennessee in the teaching of eighth-graders.

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“The Holocaust is not about race. It’s about a person’s inhumanity towards another person, ”Goldberg said. “That’s where white people do it for white people, so you’re all fighting each other.”

Both Jewish groups and several others were outraged by Goldberg’s comments. They said they contradicted the killing of about six million Jews by Jews Adolf Hitler on the basis of the anti-Semitic ideology incited by Jews that Jews would be an inferior race.

“No, Whoopi Goldberg, the Holocaust was about the systematic extermination of Jews by the Nazis – who they said was a lower race,” commented the CEO of Anti-Defamation Legion, who fights anti-Semitism. Jonathan Greenblatt On Twitter.

Goldberg said on Twitter that the Holocaust was about both race and inhuman acts of man. “I’m sorry for the pain I’ve caused,” he wrote.

Later on Monday night in Goldberg attempts to clarify their comments At The Late Show however, caused more anger and confusion, leading to an apology In The View on Tuesday morning.

Whoopi Goldberg has made provocative arguments in the past. In 2009, he said he was a film director Roman Polanski had not committed “rape-rape” for the sexual exploitation of this underage girl.

Goldberg also defended the actor Bill Cosbyawho was accused of sexual abuse but withdrew after a storm of protest.