Whoopi Goldberg issues an apology after facing a backlash for saying the Holocaust involved 'two white groups of people'.
Whoopi Goldberg has issued an apology after facing a backlash for saying the Holocaust "was not about race".Goldberg said the Holocaust was about man's inhumanity to man and involved "two white groups of people"She later apologised, saying that "Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver"
Goldberg, who co-hosts ABC America's talk show The View, said on Monday that the Holocaust was about man's inhumanity to man and involved "two white groups of people". The Oscar-winning actress later apologised saying: "On today's show, I said the Holocaust 'is not about race, but about man's inhumanity to man'. I should have said it is about both."citing profanity and nudity contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
"They dehumanised them and used this racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous." In her apology, Goldberg said Jewish people around the world "have always had my support and that will never waver".“I understand why now, and for that I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful and helped me understand some different things.”
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