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Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC’s “The View” Tuesday evening after she claimed the Holocaust was “not about race.”
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for her wrong and hurtful comments,” ABC News President Kim Godwin tweeted.
“While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.”
Goldberg, 66, claimed Nazis and Jews were both white on Monday’s program, and repeated the statement on “Late Show With Steven Colbert that evening.” She walked back the remarks on Twitter later that night amid widespread outrage.
“As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected,” she wrote.
In an email to ABC staffers, Gordon explained her decision to suspend the co-host.
“Just last week I noted that the culture at ABC News is one that is driven, kind, inclusive, respectful and transparent,” she wrote.
“Whoopi’s comments do not align with those values”
Gordon went on to praise Goldberg for inviting an ADL representative on Tuesday’s show to discuss her offensive remarks.
“Whoopi has shown through her actions of many years that she understands the horrors of the Holocaust and she started today’s show with that recognition,” Gordon wrote.
Her suspension from the talk show came as some ABC insiders insisted that her apology wasn’t enough and demanded she be fired.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/01/whoopi-goldberg-suspended-from-the-view-following-holocaust-comments/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow
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EXCLUSIVE – ‘Why is there one rule for Whoopi and another for everyone else?’ Staffers’ fury at ABC’s ‘anti-Semitic blind spot’ for not firing Goldberg over her claim the Holocaust ‘wasn’t racist’ – as #FireWhoopi hashtag spreads
- Whoopi Goldberg has not been disciplined by ABC News over her Holocaust claims
- On Monday, she claimed the Holocaust was not ‘about race’ because Nazis and Jews were both white
- She then doubled down on the claim on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
- Whoopi posted an apology on Twitter claiming she stood ‘corrected’ – but many are refusing to accept it
- On Tuesday, she gave an on-air apology then interviewed the CEO of The Anti-Defamation League who spoke generally about anti-Semitism
- She said: ‘I misspoke… it was about race. I stand with the Jewish people, as I always have’
- One senior ABC News source told DailyMail.com staff are ‘livid’ and that the network has an ‘anti-Semitic blind spot’
- ‘It’s time Disney and ABC grew a pair and fired her,’ said the source
- Whoopi on Tuesday interviewed the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League on the show
By Jennifer Smith, Chief Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 15:32 GMT, 1 February 2022 | Updated: 18:47 GMT, 1 February 2022
ABC News staffers are furious at the network for not firing Whoopi Goldberg after she claimed that the Holocaust wasn’t about race, with some accusing the network of having an anti-Semitic ‘blind spot’.
Whoopi, 66, made the controversial comments on The View on Monday. She referred to Jews and Nazis as ‘two groups of white people’ and said that because they were both white, it was about ‘inhumanity’ and not race’.
Her remarks sparked immediate international backlash with everyone from the Israeli Consular General in New York to the Auschwitz Memorial and Antidefamation League taking offense. ABC has refused to comment on the scandal.
Whoopi posted an apology on Twitter last night saying the Holocaust was about ‘both’ race and inhumanity.
On Tuesday, she made an on-air apology, then interviewed the CEO of The Anti-Defamation League, before moving on to other topics with her co-hosts.
Ahead of The View’s show on Tuesday, a senior ABC News source told DailyMail.com that staff are stunned by the network’s soft touch on her remarks, especially when it was so quick to fire Roseanne Barr over racist comments towards Valerie Jarrett.
‘These comments are absolutely abhorrent and outrageous and it’s time Disney and ABC grew a pair and fired her,’ the source said.
‘Disney took swift action and fired Roseanne Barr when she posted the awful tweet about Valerie Jarrett, yet Whoopi made her vile comments on ABC’s air and they do nothing about it? Where is the leadership from within Disney?
‘[Disney content chairman] Peter Rice needs to step up and do his job and fire Whoopi. How is this appropriate at all? What message do we send as a company? Why is there one rule for Whoopi Goldberg – who gets a pass on everything and another rule for everyone else?’ said the source.
‘There is a blind spot on The View when it comes to anti-Semitism. It is never a big enough hate crime for them.
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