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Meghan McCain is weighing in on the recent controversy surrounding her former co-worker, Whoopi Goldberg. And she definitely thinks Whoopi is getting special treatment.
Meghan McCain is weighing in on the recent controversy surrounding her former co-worker, Whoopi Goldberg. And she definitely thinks Whoopi is getting special treatment.
Earlier this week, Whoopi remarked on “The View” that the Holocaust “isn’t about race,” drawing widespread criticism. In the days following, she apologized multiple times, saying on Tuesday’s episode, "Words matter and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, as I said, and I stand corrected."</blockquote></ref>
Earlier this week, Whoopi remarked on “The View” that the Holocaust “isn’t about race,” drawing widespread criticism. In the days following, she apologized multiple times, saying on Tuesday’s episode, "Words matter and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, as I said, and I stand corrected."</blockquote></ref>
It’s not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong - notes columnist:<ref>Jeff Jacoby, "[It’s not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong]", ''Boston Globe, February 4, 2022.<blockquote>
The cure for her ignorance is education, not a dose of cancel culture.
Under “R” in “The Holocaust Encyclopedia,” a reference work published by Yale University Press, is an eight-page entry on “Racism.” It begins: “The distinguishing characteristic of Nazi Germany was its obsession with race.”
Had Whoopi Goldberg glanced at the encyclopedia before last Monday’s discussion on “The View” about the Holocaust and a Tennessee school board’s decision to reject the renowned graphic novel “Maus,” perhaps she wouldn’t have insisted so vociferously that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. Of course, no one expects panelists on “The View” to bone up by reading encyclopedias. But Goldberg didn’t even open “Maus” before going on TV to talk about it. If she had, she might have read the book’s very first words — a single sentence on a page by itself, a quote from Hitler: “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.”
Every year or so, a new study reveals that a large percentage of Americans know little or nothing about the Holocaust. Goldberg’s cluelessness is not atypical. It blew up into such a big story only because she is a TV celebrity with an audience in the millions. For her grotesque and ahistorical comments — she repeatedly claimed that the German annihilation of 6 million Jews had nothing to do with race and amounted to “white people doing it to white people, so y’all go fight amongst yourselves” — Goldberg was given a two-week suspension. ABC News president Kim Godwin said she was being pulled from the show because of her “wrong and hurtful comments.”
But what she said wasn’t hurtful, it was ignorant. And the remedy for ignorance is education, not a dose of cancel culture, even one as tepid as two weeks off the air.</blockquote></ref>
<blockquote>The cure for her ignorance is education, not a dose of cancel culture.</blockquote>
An earlier insensitivity outburst by Whoopi resurfaced of 1993 mocking Jewish women in a "fried chicken" recipe.<ref name=fox-4feb2022>Julius Young, [https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/whoopi-goldberg-jewish-american-princess-fried-chicken-cookbook-1993-resurfaces.amp Whoopi Goldberg’s 1993 recipe, ‘Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken,’ for charity cookbook resurfaces], ''Fox News'', Feb 4, 2022.</ref>
An earlier insensitivity outburst by Whoopi resurfaced of 1993 mocking Jewish women in a "fried chicken" recipe.<ref name=fox-4feb2022>Julius Young, [https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/whoopi-goldberg-jewish-american-princess-fried-chicken-cookbook-1993-resurfaces.amp Whoopi Goldberg’s 1993 recipe, ‘Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken,’ for charity cookbook resurfaces], ''Fox News'', Feb 4, 2022.</ref>