Whoopi Goldberg Returns to ‘The View’ After Suspension (VIDEO)
Whoopi Goldberg is back on The View after a two-week suspension.
She rejoined the talk show on February 14, opening it with “Yes, I am back. I gotta tell you, there’s something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this because we are The View and this is what we do and sometimes we don’t do this as elegantly as we could. It’s five minutes to get in important information about topics and that’s what we try to do every day. I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away.”
Goldberg continued, “It was amazing, and I listened to everything everybody had to say and I was very grateful and I hope it keeps all the important conversations happening because we’re going to keep having tough conversations and in part because this is what we’ve been hired to do and it’s not always pretty as I said and it’s not always as other people would like to hear, but it is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations because they’re important. They’re important to us as a nation and to us more so as a human entity.” Watch the video below for her full opening.
BREAKING: Whoopi Goldberg is back on #TheView after her two-week suspension from the show pic.twitter.com/Epg8clumtE
— The Chat (@LiveOnTheChat) February 14, 2022
Goldberg’s suspension came after comments she made about the Holocaust during the Monday, January 31 episode of The View. During a discussion about a school banning the graphic novel Maus from its Holocaust curriculum, she said, “the Holocaust isn’t about race — it’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”
That night, Goldberg posted the following statement to her social media: “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. As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazis’ systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected. The Jewish people around the world have always had my support, and that will never waver. I’m sorry for the hurt that I have caused.”
The next night, ABC News shared a statement from its president, Kim Godwin, reading, “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.”
Goldberg’s absence was only briefly addressed on-screen during the February 2 show, with co-host Joy Behar acknowledging that she would be back in two weeks.
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She should have been fired.
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Sorry she shouldn’t be back!! The view has really stopped to new lows!
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I like Whoopi Goldberg a lot, but just could not believe she didn't offer an apology for offending people. That would not have taken much effort to make a brief apology. Her statement of "not always what people would like to hear" came off as very arrogant. She is loud a lot of times and certainly incorrect on her stance today.
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Well, I disagree, if knowledge or fact is what she was after. Surgery hurts but it is necessary for healing. She was stating a historical fact, not a therapy session. If we spend our lives only saying what people want to hear, then are we really saying anything? Are we really expressing our VIEW? Should the truth be stifled by how some people will 'feel' about it? Whether we like it or not, a fact is a fact, it's up to us to DEAL with it, and I did not see any disrespect or arrogance toward my of Jewish brothers by it. The truth also is that the world has treated them as though they were a race rather than a religious community within the European 'race', and by that they have also been discriminated against using race ignorantly to do it. Same has continues to be done to Africans, and I don't see such swift suspensions or other punishment being done about it. Question: Are Christians, Buddhists, and other religions groups or the Irish etc. on themselves? I think we are mixing Apples and Oranges here.
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This I put right up there with the Russian skater debacle. You have an illegal drug in your system that is on the list you are gone. You say something about any racial injustice, you should be gone as well. Well, we see how the skating committee voted, and ABC must have taken notes from them 🙁 so sad for sure!
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May be that's why my grandmother call television 'tell lie vision'. athletes and entertainers have a singular role to entertain. They should have no comments, no views, about what's going on in the world unless they are saying what every viewer wants to hear. Take a stand only in your line of work, the rest be damned, yes?
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I think she should be fired. I guarantee if one of the white, privileged women had said the n word they would be fired...stupid people
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I am enjoying the conversation, and Claire, I think we all need education. Biologically there is no race call Jew, and the Jews are people who subscribe to Judaism or the Hebrew religion and that includes people from all types of ethnicities, white, black, Hispanic, Asian etc. I encourage you to check that out. Because Hitler mischaracterized them as such to justify his own insecurities and heinous acts does not make it true.
Like you said, they are an ethnic group in Europe (some from Italy, others from Germany) and there are many other such communities doing. Hitler used their religion, same as Europe and America used skin color to justify the enslavement of Africans as an inferior 'race'. You should know that 'race' is a term created by European colonialist and enslavers in the 1600 s to withhold privileges from certain groups of people.
I think we should separate historical facts from political correctness and truth should not be sacrificed to appease or not offend others. Truth must be stated respectfully and anyone who is offended by it when we are having genuine dialogue is anti-truth. This should not be a therapy session; even in therapy we are encouraged to identify and state the problem, only then can we seek solutions. You should read the recent ruling on this issue in Louisiana. Thx
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Now shall we talk about racists! Rosanne got fired from her own show and Gina got fired from her project for making comments off the air and the Whoppi states this ON AIR and then repeats it on a late show! Talk about a racist company!!
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Should been fired!! Just like ABC fired Roseanne.
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She should have never been suspended for her remarks. Looking at it from another angle, people of the Jewish faith are not a "race." When was the last time you heard references like the Episcopalian Race or the Catholic Race?
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