Whoopi Goldberg connected Movie Roles: "People Are Not Asking"

Whoopi Goldberg is clarifying her view.

After The View co-host appeared to treble down on the controversial comments she made astir the Holocaust earlier this year, Goldberg released a statement clearing up her thoughts connected the subject.

"Recently portion doing property successful London, I was asked astir my comments from earlier this year," the 67-year-old said successful a connection to E! News connected Dec. 27. "I tried to convey to the newsman what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time."

Goldberg's connection continued, "It was ne'er my volition to look arsenic if I was doubling down connected hurtful comments, particularly aft talking with and proceeding radical similar rabbis and aged and caller friends weighing in. I'm inactive learning a batch and judge me, I heard everything everyone said to me."

The Oscar victor besides affirmed that she believes that the "Holocaust was astir race" and said her support for the Jewish community "has not wavered and ne'er will."

ICYMI, the talk amusement host came nether occurrence after saying the Holocaust was "not astir race" but alternatively "about man's inhumanity to man" during a treatment connected the Jan. 31 occurrence of The View. Facing backlash online for her commentary connected the taxable matter, Goldberg issued an apology saying she "should person said it is astir both."
 
"As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was astir the Nazi's systematic annihilation of the Jewish people—who they deemed to beryllium an inferior race," she wrote successful a social media statement Feb 1. "I basal corrected."

She was later suspended from the ABC speech amusement for two weeks.
 
Goldberg recovered herself successful blistery h2o again connected Dec. 26, after she told The Sunday Times that she didn't recognize wherefore her January remarks caused specified an uproar and insisted that immoderate Jewish radical are besides divided implicit whether they're considered a contention oregon a religion.

Goldberg besides reportedly countered the journalist's constituent that contention tin beryllium much than conscionable tegument color, giving the illustration of how Nazis measured Jewish people's facial features to "prove" they were an existent race.

"They did that to Black radical too," she argued. "But it doesn't alteration the information that you could not archer a Jew connected a street. You could find me. You couldn't find them. That was the constituent I was making."

Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League who previously accepted Goldberg's February apology, spoke retired to denounce the Till star's latest remarks, calling them "deeply offensive."

"Whoopi Goldberg's comments astir the Holocaust and contention are incredibly disappointing, particularly fixed that this is not the archetypal clip she had made remarks similar this," helium said successful a connection to The Wrap on Dec. 27. "In a infinitesimal erstwhile antisemitic incidents person surged crossed the US, she should recognize that making specified ignorant statements tin person existent consequences."