'Humiliated' Whoopi Goldberg threatens to QUIT ‘The View’ over suspension, claim sources
Whoopi Goldberg is reportedly “livid” after her suspension from 'The View' over her remarks and is telling co-workers she is going to quit the show. 'The View' host Whoopi Goldberg will be off-air for two weeks on Tuesday, February 1 night, after her "wrong and hurtful comments".
The View Host feels “humiliated” by ABC News after she has apologized several times for comments. “She feels ABC executives mishandled this,” a source said. The actress and TV personality apologized for falsely declaring on the daytime program that the Holocaust was "not about race".
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ABC News president Kim Godwin issued a statement that bluntly described Whoopi's comments about the Holocaust, which were made on 'The View' as "wrong and hurtful."
"While Whoopi has apologized, I've asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Godwin said. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family, and communities."
"These decisions are never easy, but necessary," she added in the memo, Kim Godwin wrote. "Just last week I noted that the culture at ABC News is driven, kind, inclusive, respectful, and transparent. Whoopi's comments do not align with those values."
Whoopi issued her third public apology in an open talk: "Yesterday on the show I misspoke."
"[The Holocaust] 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 and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people."
After her show, she invited Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on the show to discuss her offensive remarks where she apologized again
Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law said, “In her error, she was reflecting a misunderstanding of Jewish identity that is both widespread and dangerous that is sometimes described as erasive antisemitism.”
“It is the notion that Jews should be viewed only as being white, privileged oppressors,” he said.
“It denies Jewish identity and involves a whitewashing of Jewish history.”
Newsflash @WhoopiGoldberg 6 million of us were gassed, starved and massacred because we were deemed an inferior race by the Nazis.
— StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) January 31, 2022
How dare you minimize our trauma and suffering! pic.twitter.com/nD8drxWpxJ
Marcus also referred anti-Jewish stereotypes and said, “about being powerful, controlling and sinister,” coupled with downplaying or denying antisemitism.
Jill Savitt, president, and CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights responded to Whoopi’s comment: “No one can get into Whoopi Goldberg’s head, … But I think what she’s trying to say is that the Holocaust is about hatred. It’s about inhumanity. It’s about what human beings will do to one another that is inhumane.”
Whoopi Goldberg, 66, is an Oscar-winning actress, who has been hosting The View since 2007, she made the first controversial comments on the show while discussing a Tennessee school board's prohibiting the graphic novel about the on-ground Holocaust that showed nudity, blasphemy, and suicide.
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