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Whoopi Goldberg renews incendiary claim that the Holocaust was not about race

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American actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg claimed again on Saturday that the Holocaust was unrelated to race, less than a year after similar comments led to her two-week suspension as host of “The View”.

In an interview with The Sunday Times of London, Goldberg said the Nazi-orchestrated genocide was “white on white” violence, not a matter of race.

“Remember who they were killing first. They weren’t killing racially; they were killing physically. They were killing people they considered mentally deficient. And then they made that decision,” she said.

When the interviewer noted that the Nazis viewed their victims as inferior races, Goldberg replied, “Yeah, but he’s the killer, isn’t he?”

“The oppressor tells you what you are,” she continued. Why do you believe them? They are Nazis. Why believe what they say?

Explaining that Jews are not identifiable as a race, she said: “It doesn’t change the fact that you can’t tell a Jew on the street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them. That’s what I meant. But you’d have thought I’d taken a big, stinky old dump off the table with my buttocks bare.

Goldberg was promoting her new movie, “Till,” in which she plays the mother of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley. The film tells the true story of Till-Mobley’s quest for justice after her son, 14-year-old Emmett Till, was lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi in 1955.

Goldberg came under fire when she claimed ‘the Holocaust is not about race’, but rather ‘the inhumanity of man to man’, during a chat with co-hosts on “The View” in January.

“If you’re going to do this, then let’s be honest about it,” Goldberg said, before clarifying that “these [Jews and Nazis] are two groups of white people.

Jewish leaders criticized his initial statement, noting that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler called Jews an inferior race. Goldberg apologized online the night she made the remark and on the show the next day.

However, ABC News President Kim Godwin told him to be away for two weeks.

Goldberg, born Caryn Elaine Johnson, does not have Jewish ancestry but adopted her deliberately Jewish-sounding stage name, in part because she has said that she personally identifies with Judaism. She told a London audience in 2016: “I just know I’m Jewish. I don’t practice anything. I don’t go to the temple, but I remember the holidays. In 2016, she designed a Hanukkah sweater for Lord & Taylor.

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