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By Chris Katulka
Israel My Glory
The blaze has subsided since Whoopi Goldberg insisted the Holocaust “isn’t about race,” but the embers are still burning.
Goldberg’s comment started a firestorm during a January filming of her television show The View on ABC. The comedian-turned-daytime-television-host then doubled down on her remark and called the Holocaust an example of white-on-white violence.
Although ABC suspended Goldberg for two weeks and she issued an apology, the incident demonstrates how few people today comprehend the true nature of the Holocaust and how the American conversation about racism clouded Goldberg’s understanding. She admitted later on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that she can’t visualize racism apart from skin color. . . .
It is disturbing that a 2020 survey of adults under 40 revealed 1 in 10 never heard the word Holocaust. Almost two-thirds of American young adults were unaware that 6 million Jews were systematically murdered during World War II. And the greatest shocker of all was that more than 1 in 10 believe the Jewish people caused the Holocaust. Click here to continue reading.
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(Photo from alamy.com; used with permission.)
People that deny the Holocaust are as evil as those who committed the atrocities against the Jews during WW2. I am sure without a doubt that every one of those criminals is in the lake of fire today for the sins they committed against innocent human beings. No murderer will escape God’s justice.
Whoopi Goldberg was going with the Anti-Defamation League’s 2020 redefinition of racism as “the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.” By this redefinition (from the original “the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another” or “a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics”), she understood Hitler as not being racist. The ADL now says that racism occurs “when individuals or institutions show more favorable evaluation or treatment of an individual or group based on race or ethnicity.”