The actress Whoopi Goldberg again found herself at the heart of the storm last weekend following an interview with the British "Sunday Times" in which she repeated the claim that the Holocaust was not racially motivated.
In February of this year, when she said that the Holocaust "was not related to race" but was a crime by "the white man against the white man", Goldberg - who defines herself as Jewish - was suspended for two weeks from her participation in the popular show The View as one of the regular presenters.
She then tried to explain her words in an interview with comedian Stephen Colbert until she finally apologized and even said that "I will not raise this point again, people are angry and I accept that, and I will take their word that they are right and I will not raise this claim again."
Last February, Goldberg was suspended from the popular show The View, Goldberg on the left as a presenter on the show, photo: AP
At the weekend, as mentioned, she did it again: "My best friend told me that it's no coincidence that in the population census they don't ask you to mark what race you are. And that leads me to believe that we're probably not a race," she said in an interview, designed to promote her new film.
She explained that "in the beginning it had nothing to do with race" and mentioned that the Nazis also murdered different groups in the population, including those with disabilities.
When the interviewer pressed Goldberg that, according to the Nazis, the Jews were a race, she fortified her position and said that the Nazis were wrong, "The oppressor tells you who you are, but why believe him? They are Nazis. Why believe the Nazis" This does not change the fact that it is impossible to tell who is a Jew on the street.
You can recognize me as black but you couldn't find them the Jews in the Holocaust.
That's what I wanted to say.
But the reaction was as if I threw my needs on the table while naked."
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