Posted on 02/02/2022 5:33:22 AM PST by Kaslin
This week, former award-winning actress and highly decorated blowhard Whoopi Goldberg made a fool of herself. This came as no surprise; Goldberg does that quite regularly on "The View." The good news for Goldberg is that no one notices -- trying to identify which fatuous host takes the cake for most imbecilic comment on any given day is an exercise in multivariate calculus, so Goldberg often tends to meld into the wallpaper of daftness.
But on Monday, Goldberg truly stood out.
Discussing an obscure Tennessee school board deciding to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus" from a Holocaust unit for eighth-graders, Goldberg launched into an explanation of the Holocaust dazzling in both its ignorance and its malignity.
Joy Behar, the usual top contender for the Crown of Idiocy, led off by explaining that the Tennessee school board members "don't like history that makes white people look bad." Then Goldberg got going: "Maybe. This is white people doing it to white people. Y'all go fight amongst yourselves."
This comment would have been insanely insulting, in and of itself: Here was Goldberg, referring to Nazis and Jews as "white people doing it to white people." But Goldberg was just getting started. "If we're going to do this," Goldberg said, "let's be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn't about race. No. It's not about race." Behar correctly said, "They considered Jews a different race." But Goldberg would not tolerate the dissent: "It's not about race. It's not about race ... It's about man's inhumanity to man. That's what it's about."
At this point, Ana Navarro attempted to intervene and stop the crazy train. "But it's about white supremacy," Navarro said. "It's about going after Jews and gypsies." No, said Goldberg. "These are two white groups of people ... You're missing the point. The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let's talk about it for what it is. It's how people treat each other. It's a problem. It doesn't matter if you are black or white because black, white, Jews, Italians, everybody eats each other."
The asininity cannot be overstated here. It is absolutely clear that the Nazis targeted Jews as a race; Hitler wasn't exactly hiding the ball when he stated in "Mein Kampf": "Is not their very existence founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious community, whereas in reality they are a race?" Hitler repeatedly referred to the Jews as a race of parasites, and targeted Jews on the basis of ethnicity rather than religious adherence.
The question must be asked, then: What, precisely, did Goldberg think she was doing? The answer is that she believed she was upholding the intersectional theory of race and racism. That theory holds that society is structured in a hierarchy of victimized and victimizing groups; that groups that are disproportionately successful are victimizers, and that groups that are disproportionately less successful are victimized. Jews are disproportionately successful; thus, they are white. And, intersectional theory posits, racism is not defined as a belief that any other race is superior or inferior to another; instead, racism means -- as the Anti-Defamation League recently defined it -- "the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people."
These two concepts, taken in tandem, mean that Jews cannot be considered victims of antisemitism. They are highly successful; they are white. Thus, they cannot be members of a victimized minority. This is why the mainstream Left is so reluctant to recognize the antisemitism of Hamas (Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman, for example, condemned Israel for defending itself against rocket attacks by Hamas by decrying "Black and brown bodies being brutalized and murdered"); it is why the mainstream Left is complicit in the lie that the only true antisemitism springs from white supremacists, ignoring actual acts of Jew-hatred by members of minority populations. The intersectional Left's conspiracy theory -- that a cabal of white victimizers (including Jews, and now, Asians) control society for its own benefit -- inherently crosses streams with antisemitism.
Goldberg's comments aren't an aberration. They're merely the latest iteration of a pernicious and perverse theory of power in politics -- a conspiracy theory about groups that succeed and the systems in which they succeed.
What gives Whoopi Goldberg the basis for being an authority on ANYTHING?!?!?
SHE IS A NOBODY WHO WAS AN ACTRESS & COMEDIENNE! With no more authority on anything that a homeless guy on the street!
She should be simply ignored......
IMHO, of course.
Does it make “whoopi” appear a fool? That’s what she’s on TV for: To act like a fool and say foolish things. And she’s making fools of her viewers, too, because they pay attention to her and take her seriously. They get ALLLLL UPSET because she says this or that dumb thing.
If no one paid attention to “the view” anymore, would anything they say matter to anyone? Would they have any kind of an effect on anything? (Except all the parasites who depend on them for income.)
Whoopig forgot the 11th commandment. Thou shall not offend the Chosen People she works for.
What would happen to a well-known conservative voice who said exactly the same thing?
Can’t sat I disagree with any of that.
What’s disgusting is her net worth...45 mil.....and yet she rails on about what a racist country this is.....that made her a multimillionaire.
Another leftie with no appreciation for what this country is and what it has done for her.
LOL, who cares what idiots on The Spew say about anything? So, Whoopi is wrong about the Holocaust. She’s wrong about everything and thinks all white people are racists. The worst part of what she said was when she said “it’s white people doing it to white people” as if the deaths of people don’t matter if they are white. But again, the woman barely has a functioning brain and looks like Jabba the Hut now. What does anyone expect from such an ignorant fool expounding about things every day on TV? I guess the network is worried that the idiotic factor of the show is a little too exposed after Whoopi’s remarks?
Whoopi is a professional Negro
She’s black for a living
Just for the record.....real name:
Caryn Elaine Johnson
This seems like a lot more news coverage than can reasonably justified. Whoopie thinks Jews are white. Big deal? Like lost normal people I will continue ignoring everything she says since Sister Act came out 20 years ago.
She got into less trouble for saying Polanski didn’t “REALLY” rape a 13 year old girl.
The Holocaust was the name given by Jews to rightfully delineate and identify the murders of 6 million of their co-religionists. This was part of the Greater German Genocide of an additional approximately 6 million other peoples targeted and killed by the left wing National Socialists
When she compares Jews to POC and how Jews can’t be the victims because they are successful it highlights the cultural laziness and hooked on failure attitude of the black culture. POC’s are included in the mix to provide cover.
If she really cared she’d put all her money where her mouth is.
She’s A disgusting liberal liar, but I repeat myself.
The Final Solution was absolutely designed to rid the world of Jews, but the Nazis also found the death camps a useful mechanism to get rid of other “undesirable “ ethnicities like Slavs and gypsies, as well as homosexuals and political dissidents. Hitler had lots of reasons for murdering people, but Jews constituted half.
And if the Germans won the war, there were plenty of groups that were next on the list, that the Nazis only spared because they were necessary for the war effort. Once their services were no longer required, they would have gone too. Mainly the business class and all of those Generals with the “vons” in their names.
But, she played that wise woman Guinan on Star Trek TNG.
Now that reference to pigs is just not nice? I know that the porcine community wouldn't appreciate being connected to her. And, just because she is uglier than sin, it's not an acceptable to poke fun at her.
These people should be ignored, but the sad fact is, these people do influence a lot of people in this country like it or not. And even if people don't watch The View on TV, the clips from the show are on YouTube and other media for people to watch at their leisure.
Racialism has taken the place of class warfare as the great pry bar in the communists’ toolbox.
While the Nazis have long been handy for smearing the perception of what is ‘right wing’, considering the Holocaust a specifically a matter of race does not do anything to advance the marxist ball down this playing field today. In fact it confuses the very clear message the commies are trying to send the rest of us.
Whoopi isn’t smart enough to be cognizant of this but as someone who’s entirely ID is tied up in politics she feels it intuitively.
You nailed it better here than I’ve ever heard it stated
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