Whoopi Goldberg broke the internet last week by making painfully ignorant claims on The View about the Holocaust – and then being handed a two-week suspension for her troubles.
‘Let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race,’ she opined to her co-hosts. ‘It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about,’ she added. ‘These are two white groups of people.’
Whoopi later apologised via Twitter for setting up the false dichotomy.
‘On today’s show, I said the Holocaust “is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man”. I should have said it is about both.’
Debates raged over whether her two-week suspension by employer ABC was justified. Some conservatives were predictably gleeful that cancel culture had come back to bite a lefty. Apparently missing the irony, prominent wokesters queued up to moan that cancel culture is getting out of hand.
Many stood on firmer principles, arguing that neither Whoopi, Joe Rogan, nor anyone deserves to be cancelled – and that cultural disagreements are best settled by communication, not censorship.
One of these was the former star of The Mandalorian Gina Carano. Carano was dropped by Disney after tweeting a meme last year that referenced the treatment of the Jews in 1930s Germany.
Read the article by Kurt Mahlberg in The Spectator.