Op-Ed: Whoopi Goldberg’s Mistake Wasn’t So Terrible

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The Moderate Voice

By Donald H. Harrison Whoopi Goldberg was wrong but as far as I’m concerned, the folks at ABC and The View were too harsh when they suspended her for two weeks. Let me explain. In a discussion of the Holocaust on The View television show, Goldberg commented that the Holocaust wasn’t racist because it was white people persecuting other white people. On the face of it, that seemed a correct statement. The Holocaust, for the most part, occurred on the European continent, where Jews are predominantly white-skinned. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis thought of Jews as a “race” rather than a “religious gro…

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