Posted on 02/02/2022 7:55:51 PM PST by jfd1776
Actress Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from the ABC talk show she has co-hosted for 15 years – The View – for two weeks, for saying, amazingly, that the Holocaust was “not about race.”
In a fascinating riff, not a single moment of misspeak, but a statement on which she doubled down, she told her audience that “the Holocaust had nothing to do with race,” because after all, “these are two white groups of people.”
Now, think about that. This wasn’t a confused old man like Joe Biden misreading his Teleprompter, or someone who’s hard of hearing, clearly misunderstanding the question. This is the way she thinks.
And that makes it one of the most revealing statements any Leftist has made in decades.
Many of us kid that Whoopi Goldberg is a dummy. She’s not. She's a capable actress and once-funny comedienne, though burdened with an extreme leftist worldview.
At some level, she 'knows' that the Holocaust was the bigotry of non-Jewish Germans against Jews (and also numerous other groups, such as Gypsies, homosexuals, priests and nuns, and political opponents… but especially Jews), but that knowledge is suppressed because it interferes with her worldview.
The revealing issue here is that Whoopi Goldberg (who consciously adopted a Jewish surname as her stage name, which entitles her audience to expect a bit more awareness from her, at least) does not acknowledge that this particular bigotry - antisemitism - is a type of racism.
And she doesn’t acknowledge it for a reason. This is a conscious choice, if not by her personally, then by her movement, the modern Left.
Now, the rest of us - normal, sane people living in the real world like you and me – all recognize that there are many kinds of racism in the world. Almost every imaginable distinction between groups can exist as racism.
There are big, obvious types of racism: White versus black, Arab versus Jew, Chinese versus Russian… but there are also types that outsiders wouldn’t expect: Sicilian versus Calabrese, Hutu versus Tutsi, English versus Irish, and so forth. There are probably hundreds of specific bigotries, all over the world, between people who don’t acknowledge the biological equality of “the human race” and instead draw lines based on skin color, genealogy, regional borders, and cultural differences.
Decent folks acknowledge they exist, and strive to rise above them, and to raise their children to be free of them.
But the modern Left simply cannot acknowledge all that… and there’s a reason:
The modern Left is completely dependent upon the idea that the whole world is out to get American blacks. That’s the only racism that matters, the only racism that’s “real” in the eyes of today’s intersectional left.
This is why the Left highlights some kinds of crime while disregarding other kinds of crime that numerically dwarf it. Terrorism, to them, is “some people did something.” Mass murder is dismissed as “political differences.” A vehicular attack at a Christmas parade, that anyone else would attribute to racist hatred, the modern Left chalks up to “mental illness.”
Why?
Because if the Left admits that there are a hundred different bigotries in the world, then the raison d’etre for hiring quotas - and affirmative action and set-aside programs, and the welfare state and slavery reparations, and vote fraud facilitation and a black female appointment to the supreme court - is all blown away like the wind.
Because if they admit to the existence of a hundred other bigotries, then the specific bigotry to which they have hitched their wagon – and locked in their most dependable voting base - is no longer anything remarkable, anything special, deserving of all kinds of unconstitutional, illogical, costly and societally destructive measures.
What a house of cards the modern Left is built upon.
And what a favor Whoopi Goldberg did us all, by sloppily, carelessly, shockingly revealing it.
Copyright 2022 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer and actor. A one-time county chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009.
A collection of John’s Illinois Review articles about vote fraud, The Tales of Little Pavel, and his 2021 political satires about current events, Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes One and Two, are available, in either paperback or eBook, only on Amazon.
Oh please, she got a two-week paid vacation.
Keep getting sloppy, Whoopie ‘Goldberg’.
Good article.
Perhaps Goldberg should just stop her culture appropriation and resume using her birth name. It’s kind of sleazy now.
The reason why the left wants to define it as an only black thing is because they want blacks so conscious about their colour of their colour of skin that they end up segregating themselves to feel safe.
In short, the left wants blacks to off themselves.
wow!!!
This is the best explanation and destruction of the left’s narrative! Just brilliant.
Assuming that she will spend the two weeks walking around Times Square as a working girl...
Well, she has a point, and ‘race’ or ‘racism’ is about discrimination against blacks, and no other race qualifies when it comes to racism. Blacks only apply.
So, when it comes to her, she is one of the disadvantaged, and she’s been held back and has not been able to attain her goals in life. Most of all, she could have been a doctor or a lawyer, but instead, she’s had to struggle all her life and remains poor to this day.
And now, she’s being discriminated against again, and has to suffer through a bit of suspension, whereas, if she were white, she could’ve gotten away with what she said and would have remained unpunished.
I feel so sorry for her.
Black liberation theology slipping out.
Whoopi—what a name—once said “I wish my mother had gotten an abortion.” Well fine Whoopi Doody, we would not have you to deal with you if she had. As it is, you made up for her with your multiple abortions. Dyslexic, stupid and egregiously ugly, this poltroon takes the cake, taking it home and stuffing it down her throat in one bite. Go away clown, you have more than enough fame and money.
As long as she ain't nekid behind it
I guess she thinks it is no big deal since they did not kill black people. Does she know what happened to black US and French African POW and mixed race children of US black fathers from WWI?
She is the bigot.
Racism pays well.
All leftists are bigots... Always have been.
Sorry but race has to be defined. The term racism is used to define extreme prejudice of one cultural group against another resulting in the extreme with one group performing or attempting genocide against the other. Would this author argue that the genocide that occurred in Rwanda or currently against the Uighurs in China or against the Christians by ISIS in Iraq/Syria or the Russian communists against the Ukrainians in the 1930’s was “racism”? Jews are a distinctive religious/cultural group but they are genetically diverse. Are they a distinct race? Regardless there is no doubt that they were the victims of inhuman, horrible German Nazis.
Thanks, folks, for all the kind words of support. Much appreciated.
To Allendale... I’m not sure what you’re looking for from me here. I think your definition there - in your second sentence - is a good one... though I think the concept of attempting genocide is rare enough to not need mentioning... but otherwise, sure. It’s extreme prejudice against a real or perceived difference between your group and other group, based on things like skin color or country of origin or geneology.
Even if an outside scientist wouldn’t recognize a scientific difference in ethnicity, if the people involved do, then yes, it counts as racism.
That’s why I added the examples I did in my column... to us Americans, we wouldn’t see a difference between Hutus and Tutsis, but the Rwandans do; it’s a racial difference for them. We may not see a difference between Sicilians and Calabrese (the two provinces are separated by the two-mile-wide Strait of Messina, that’s all), but Sicilians and Calabrese do.
So sure, Nazi Germans (who called themselves the Aryan Race) could be racist against Jews (no matter whether Sephardic or Ashkenazi)... because they thought of them as a different race, even though we here might say “they lived side by side in the same village for 200 years; they’re just Germans to us.”
Racism is very largely in the eye of the beholder... the eye of the racist, so to speak.
OK. If in the modern parlance “racism” is essentially prejudice, often extreme by one distinctive cultural group against another then that would be the definition. However as you point out a population geneticist would not define “racism” in this manner. Whoopi clearly is not a scientist but a clever political activist. She would prefer the sting of the “racism” accusation not be used by aggrieved groups other than blacks.
Well said
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