Actress Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from Scene For two weeks over his comments alleged that race was not a factor in the Holocaust.
ABC News president Kim Godwin announced his suspension on Tuesday night, saying it was “effective immediately.”
“While Whoopi has apologized, I have asked her to take the time to think about and learn about the impact of her comments,” Godwin said in a tweet.
‘The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish allies, friends, family and communities.’
Whoopi, 66, made controversial remarks Scene on Monday. He referred to the Jews and the Nazis as ‘two groups of white people’ and said that because they were both white, it was about ‘inhumanity’ and not race.
Whoopi’s comment sparked an immediate international backlash, all along Israel The consul general in New York considered the Auschwitz Memorial and the Anti-Defamation League a crime. ABC has declined to comment on the scandal.
Whoopi posted an apology on Twitter on Monday night, saying the Holocaust was “both about” race and inhumanity.
‘ In today’s show, I said that Holocaust “is not about caste, but about man’s inhumanity towards man.” I should have said it’s about both. As Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League shared, “The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic destruction of the Jewish people—whom they considered a low caste.” I stand right,’ Goldberg said.
‘The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and it will never be missed. I am sorry for the hurt I have caused. Wrote with my sincere apologies, Whoopi Goldberg,’ she said.
On Tuesday, she apologized on-air, then interviewed the CEO of The Anti-Defamation League, before moving on to other topics with her co-hosts.
Ahead of The View’s show on Tuesday, a senior ABC News source told DailyMail.com that employees were shocked by the network’s soft touch on her comments, especially when it went so far as to fire Roseanne Barr over racist comments towards Valerie Jarrett. It was early
“These comments are absolutely disgusting and insulting and it’s time for Disney and ABC to pair up and fire him,” the source said.
Disney took swift action and fired Roseanne Barr when she posted a terrible tweet about Valerie Jarrett, yet Whoopi made her snarky comment on air on ABC and they do nothing about it? Where is the leadership from within Disney?
,[Disney content chairman] Peter Rice needs to step up and do his job and fire Whoopi. How is this fair at all? What message do we send as a company? Why is there one rule for Whoopi Goldberg – one that gets passed on to everything and another rule for everyone else?’ The source said.
‘There’s a blind spot on The View when it comes to anti-Semitism. It has never been such a big hate crime for them.
Meghan MCCAIN: No point in sacking Whoopi – her half-hearted apology for anti-Semitism only reshapes double standards television for liberals and conservatives
in the six months after I left SceneI haven’t seen a single episode of the show.
My life has moved on.
A baby, above and beyond this column and other projects, is the most sought after and adorable diva in my life.
The next day he insisted on keeping his rabbit’s rabbit shoes and did not take no for an answer; Look, I don’t have time for my old friends on the show.
Still, when something from the show goes viral or ends up in the publications I read I can’t help but feel a whiff of despair.
Not that I expect compelling or nuanced political discussion from daytime television, but seeing the recent spate of embarrassing moments from a show makes me sad that I’ve spent so much time and effort trying to raise that to a more serious level. Put it.
The infamous disaster of a non-interview with Vice President Kamala Harris was the most prominent incident until yesterday, when my longtime co-host Whoopi Goldberg engaged in a series of bizarre, inconsistent, and even alarming comments about the Holocaust. did.
I kept wandering about whether this column was even worth writing, because I have progressed as far as I can.
The show doesn’t define me like there are many others who have worked there over the years, and I found liberating and satisfaction in my career working here at DailyMail.com.
Not that I expect compelling or nuanced political discussion from daytime television, but seeing the recent spate of embarrassing moments from a show makes me sad that I’ve spent so much time and effort trying to raise that to a more serious level. Put it.
The freedom to adjust my priorities in life after the pandemic came at the best of times for me personally, and I don’t want to dwell on the past.
Unfortunately, what Whoopi said yesterday was so serious that it should refrain from addressing.
Even while working at The View, I became deeply involved as an activist against the growing rise of anti-Semitism in America.
The American Jewish Committee released a report in October detailing the rise of anti-Semitism in America.
In the survey, one in four American Jews said they have been anti-Semitism targets in the past 12 months.
Four out of 10 American Jews have changed their behavior out of fear.
Four out of 10 of all Americans have personally witnessed anti-Semitic incidents.
And 82% of American Jews say that anti-Semitic sentiment has increased in the past five years.
There are more staggering figures, but anyone who has been paying attention for the past few years has seen this one.
In January 2019, I called the founders of the Women’s March live on ABC after they were accused of intolerance and anti-Semitism by their own members.
He later refused to condemn statements comparing Jews to termites and claimed that the Holocaust had not occurred.
That was three years ago.
I was flooded with hundreds of thousands of comments on social media that I wouldn’t repeat — but it was baptism with fire.
It was an experience that made clear the intensity of anti-Semitic sentiment that still pervades our society, and it was an eye-opener to the extent to which some extremists were willing to engage in such blatant racism. are ready.
From that moment on I can best describe my experience in the media, and yes in The View, as finding out how seriously people grow antisemitism.
There is a serious cultural fallout in the media of these threats.
Even the FBI underestimated the recent hostage crisis in Collyville, Texas, during which British citizen Malik Faisal Akram held Rabbi Charlie Citron-Walker and four congregations at gunpoint.
The Bureau was reluctant to say that the shooter was inspired by anti-Semitism – despite the fact that he was specifically targeting a rabbi and a synagogue.
Antisocialism is actually the last socially accepted form of bigotry.
Hating Jews is an ancient trope.
Like so many forms of hatred, it is as old as the existence of human tribes themselves.
The difference is that today, in an era when so many forms of insult or criticism are labeled bigotry, true or not, genuine bigotry toward the Jewish people is not only tolerated, but defended in those ways. Do what I find disgusting.
For many years, this has been an inherent aspect of left-wing politics, especially of the campus kind.
They use the excuse that it is really about foreign policy in the Middle East or Palestine or even the friendly relations between Benjamin Netanyahu and conservative politicians in the US.
We all know it’s just making excuses.
What we are talking about here is just racism, pure and simple.
Unequal standards are also evident here.
I was lectured thousands of times on The View, a notion that ‘cancellation culture’ is actually ‘accountability culture’ among the Left.
What appears to be a belief that is quickly forgotten whenever Whoopi has to be held to account.
I’m not asking to dismiss Whoopi Goldberg, if only because I don’t believe there’s a universe where she could possibly do anything to get her fired — she’s the crown of The View and a pop culture icon. Is.
But I hope that can be used as a learnable moment to explain to millions of Americans why limiting the Holocaust to something specific and ‘white people’ is insane, historical, and anti-Semitic.
Because the Left is fond of using Nazi comparisons and fantasies, the truth of the Holocaust, who it targeted and why, deserves to be known and understood by all.
Deny the Moon landing if you wish, call the Earth flat, question who really shot JFK – but it’s not wrong to frame the Holocaust as just a ‘race’ brawl, it’s dangerous .
I also think that ABC and The View need to focus extensively on why some hosts – and let me be completely clear here – why some eclectic hosts are more thorough than anyone else. held to a different standard.
Whoopi has said a lot of crazy-controversial and hurtful things during her tenure at The View.
Some of the more infamous ones include defending Roman Polanski for raping a 13-year-old girl (calling it ‘rape, not rape’) and defending Bill Cosby when more than 50 accusers publicly expressed their views on their Came up with stories.
With age and status comes security in The View.
The same goes for other generous hosts.
Instead of apologizing half-heartedly and bringing in experts in the anti-Semitism field, perhaps devote an entire ‘Hot Topics’ section to discussing why what was said was so deeply offensive and dangerous.
In the world of media, there are people who will never face the same kind of impact and repercussions that others will.
A double, a triple and even a quadruple are standard if you are a conservative.
If this isn’t a huge problem for ABC News today, it will get bigger.
People have less and less tolerance for high-paid celebrities, with every access to education, using their platforms to spread bigotry.
And from my experience working in television, casual backstage chatter always has a way of coming to light when the camera is on.
All this being said, there are people who will be given protection and coverage from networks and authorities for their bad behavior no matter what.
Those people are not Sharon Osbourne and Roseanne Barr.
The View was founded by one of the most famous Jewish American women in American history – Barbara Walters.
I do not believe that a show of a short-sighted opinion was his intention.
The American audience deserves a better section of the debate, especially on a topic of such importance to understanding the potential of evil in the world.
And for those who hope and work against the anti-Semitism forces in our country, we cannot forget what was done and why, and know what this evil is.
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