The Holocaust wasn’t about race because Jews are white. This is the through-the-looking-glass position in which progressive America now finds itself, via Whoopi Goldberg.
This week, the Sister Act star used her weekly programme The View
– which is watched by millions of Americans – to educate the public about the Nazi extermination of Jews.
‘Let’s be truthful about it,’ she said. ‘The Holocaust isn’t about race… It’s about man’s inhumanity to man, that’s what it’s about.’
When another panellist suggested that it was ‘about white supremacy’, Ms Goldberg – who is not Jewish, and whose birthname is Johnson – forcefully responded:
The Holocaust was about race. This is such a basic fact that it is demeaning to have to argue in its defence
‘These are two white groups of people… Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It’s a problem.’
A ‘problem’, eh.
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