Whoopi Goldberg is under fire again for remarks on the Holocaust, after previously asserting the genocide was not “about race.”
Whoopi Goldberg is facing fresh scrutiny for remarks about the Holocaust after she previously drew backlash for claiming the genocide was not “about race.”
“Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision,” she said.
Janice Turner, a Times journalist, pushed back, pointing to the 67-year-old actress and comedian that Nazi Germany officials adopted race laws that targeted Jews.
When Turner reiterated that “Nazis saw Jews as a race,” Goldberg replied: “Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?”
“It doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street,” Goldberg added. “You could find me. You couldn’t find them.”
Goldberg made the remarks while promoting her new film “Till,” in which she plays the mother of civil rights leader Mamie Till-Mobley.
The actress’s most recent words have caused considerable outrage on social media.
“Whoopi Goldberg – 1 million Jews were slaughtered in Auschwitz alone, therefore take a lesson from @AuschwitzMuseum,” Aviva Klompas, co-founder of Boundless Israel, tweeted. “Hitler singled out Jews for extinction, claiming that we were an unique and inferior race. Stop rewriting history. It offends every Jew who died in the Holocaust.”
“This is one of those occasions when I think someone should make Whoopi Goldberg go to a Holocaust museum and learn about the Nuremberg laws,” video game designer Luc Bernard tweeted.
ABC News has been contacted for comment by The Hill.
Goldberg was already suspended from “The View” earlier this year for making similar statements regarding race and the Holocaust. She then apologized for her remarks.
ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement that she ordered Goldberg to take time off “to evaluate and learn about the effect of her comments” and suspended her for two weeks.
“Everyone at ABC News stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family, and communities,” Godwin said at the time.
Goldberg stated earlier this year in an apology that her sympathy for Jews would “never waver.”
“I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused,” Goldberg wrote then.