On CBS, Whoopi Tries to Explain Away Her Holocaust Comments

Likely beforeA Twitter Statement postedMonday night The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg appeared on Monday’s taping of CBS’s The Late ShowProtected her vile commentsAbout the Holocaust as a White-on White Atrocity. “about race,” insisting she gave her view as a Black woman who believed the Nazis couldn’t “identify”You will be considered Jewish and thus captured if you are not a Star of David holder.

Whoopi Goldberg said so “was never, ever, ever my intention” To “upset…people,”However, she attempted to make people feel sorry for her by making them watch videos. “misunderstood”She and her sent “mail” accusing her of “denying the Holocaust and all these other things, which, you know, would never have occurred to me to do.”

Stephen Colbert, host of the show, addressed this immediately in her promotion appearance. A Lifetime Movie, invited her “to follow up” and “clarify what you said…because it confused some people.”

People were “confused” by what she said? Sure, Stephen.

Whoopi recognized “it upset a lot of people, which was never ever ever my intention,” But, he said that the show was “having a discussion because I — I feel, being Black, when we talk about race, it’s a very different thing to me, so I said I — I felt that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and people got very, very, very angry and still are angry.”

Citing “the mail from folks” containing “very real anger,” Goldberg said her comments came from being Black and viewing “race as being something that I can see.”

Emphasizing this wasn’t a “fake” apology, Whoopi added her view of the Holocaust was “that it was really more about man’s inhumanity” with such a mentality again percolating to the surface (read: right-wingers are Nazis) (click “expand”):

GOLDBERG: I felt that — that it was really more about man’s inhumanity to man and how horrible people can be to people, and we’re seeing it manifest itself these days. However, people are angry. I get it. I — I felt differently. All of the things that people have said to me are true and I do not want to apologize. I was — I’m very upset that people are misunderstood what I was saying and, so, because of it, they’re saying that I’m anti-Semitic and that I’m denying the Holocaust and all these other things, which, you know, would never have occurred to me to do. I assumed we were having an open discussion on race. Which I agree with. 

COLBERT: As the white guy in the conversation here — 

GOLDBERG: Uh-huh.

COLBERT: — I am neither Jewish nor Black so I have a different perspective in all this. 

GOLDBERG: Yes. 

COLBERT 

Following that exchange, Colbert said, based on what he’s “read about how the Nazis operated, when they found out that you were of the Jewish race that’s why they’d make you wear a star, so they could see you and identify you.”

Goldberg agrees, and says to the laughter of the far-left crowd: “Yes, so they could identify you. However, my point was that they needed to perform the work. If you see — if the Klan is coming down the street and I’m standing with a Jewish friend, and neither one — well, I’m going to run.”

She argued that, if a Jewish friend wouldn’t run, the KKK wouldn’t think they’re Jewish “because you can’t tell who’s Jewish. You don’t — it’s not something people say, oh, that person is Jewish or this person is Jewish. And so, that’s what I was trying to explain.”

She said that she received more applause and cheers from the audience. “will” Try to “not…think that way again”As you can see “not everybody sees it that way” It caused “a lot of harm.” 

Oh, and she added two final excuses by lamenting how “the Nazi’s lied” and stated she was wondering about how to talk about the Holocaust to today’s children (click “expand”):

GOLDBERG – I know that people may not see it the same way. I know that I caused a lot of damage to myself. People also decided that I was something I wasn’t. I am incredibly upset by these statements about me and it is understandable. It is a very angry world. It is a fact that I understand and have accepted. This was my — my thought process, and I will work hard not to think that way again.

COLBERT: Have you — have you — [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] — come to understand that the Nazis saw it as race? 

GOLDBERG: Well, well — 

COLBERT 

GOLDBERG This wasn’t true. They — they had issues with ethnicity, not with race, because most of the Nazis were White people and most to have the people they were attacking were White people. So, to me, I’m thinking how can you — how can you say it’s about race if you are fighting each other? So, it all really began because I said how will children — how we explain to children what happened in Nazi Germany? This wasn’t — I said, this wasn’t racial, this was about White-on-White and everybody said, no, no, no, it was racial. So, this is where it all started. Don’t bother writing me again. I already know what you are feeling, okay? You already know. It’s obvious to me. I will take you at your word and not bring it up ever again.

Goldberg’s mealy-mouth meandering was made possible thanks to Late Show advertisers such as Lactaid and Oral-B. Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.

To see the relevant CBS transcript from February 1, click “expand.”

CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
February 1, 2022
Eastern 12:06

STEPHENCOLBERT: Here are some new developments 

WHOOPI GLOBBERG:

COLBERT: — this morning on The View —

GOLDBERG : 

COLBERT: — when y’all were talking about the Holocaust. 

GOLDBERG: Yeah. 

COLBERT: And would you care to follow up — clarify what you said this morning

GOLDBERG: I don’t know if I —

COLBERT: — because it confused some people. 

GOLDBERG: — it’s — it upset a lot of people — 

COLBERT: Yes.

GOLDBERG: — which was never ever ever my intention. 

COLBERT: Yeah.

GOLDBERG: I thought we were having a discussion because I — I feel, being Black, when we talk about race, it’s a very different thing to me, so I said I — I felt that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. People were very angry, and they still are. I mean, I’m getting, you know, all of the mail from folks, and the very real anger because people feel very differently. But I thought it was a — a salient discussion because, as a Black person, I think of race as being something that I can see, so I see you and I know what race you are, and the discussion was about how I felt about that. I felt that — that it was really more about man’s inhumanity to man and how horrible people can be to people, and we’re seeing it manifest itself these days. But people were very angry and they said, no, no, we are a race, and I — I — I understand. I understand. I — I felt differently. All of the things that people have said to me are true and I do not want to apologize. I was — I’m very upset that people are misunderstood what I was saying and, so, because of it, they’re saying that I’m anti-Semitic and that I’m denying the Holocaust and all these other things, which, you know, would never have occurred to me to do. I assumed we were having an open discussion on race. Which I agree with. 

COLBERT: As the white guy in the conversation here — 

GOLDBERG: Uh-huh.

COLBERT: — I am neither Jewish nor Black so I have a different perspective in all this. 

GOLDBERG: Yes. 

COLBERT 

GOLDBERG : I believe so. 

COLBERT: Umm hmm.

GOLDBERG It was something that I found to be very evil. 

COLBERT: Umm hmm.

GOLDBERG: This wasn’t — this wasn’t based on the skin. It was impossible to tell who was Jewish. To figure out who was Jewish, they had to dig deep. 

COLBERT: I think one of the reasons why people might say — and, again, I — I — I am — I’m not Jewish and I’m not Black —

GOLDBERG: Right.

COLBERT: — but as someone who understands, you know, what I’ve read about how the Nazis operated, when they found out that you were of the Jewish race — 

GOLDBERG: Right, yes.

COLBERT: — that’s why they’d make you wear a star — 

GOLDBERG: Yes.

COLBERT: — so they could see you and identify you.

GOLBERG : They could recognize you. However, my point was that they needed to perform the work. If you see — if the Klan is coming down the street — 

COLBERT: Umm hmm.

GOLDBERG: — and I’m standing with a Jewish friend, and neither one — well, I’m going to run. [LAUGHTER]My friend may decide not to run. They’ll be passed most of the time because it’s difficult to tell who is Jewish. You don’t — it’s not something people say, oh, that person is Jewish or this person is Jewish. So, that was what I tried to convey. I know that it is not something everyone sees. I am incredibly upset by the things people have said about me and it’s okay for them to. People are mad. It is a fact that I understand and have accepted. This was my — my thought process, and I will work hard not to think that way again.

COLBERT: Have you — have you — [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] — come to understand that the Nazis saw it as race? 

GOLDBERG: Well, well — 

COLBERT 

GOLDBERG This wasn’t true. They — they had issues with ethnicity, not with race, because most of the Nazis were White people and most to have the people they were attacking were White people. So, to me, I’m thinking how can you — how can you say it’s about race if you are fighting each other? So, it all really began because I said how will children — how we explain to children what happened in Nazi Germany? This wasn’t — I said, this wasn’t racial, this was about White-on-White and everybody said, no, no, no, it was racial. So, this is where it all started. Don’t bother writing me again. I already know what you are feeling, okay? You already know. It’s obvious to me. I will take you at your word and not bring it up ever again.