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   Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from “The View” for two weeks   
   after facing wide criticism for her remarks that the Holocaust was   
   “not about race.”   
      
   Goldberg’s suspension was announced in a statement released by ABC   
   News public relations on Tuesday night.   
      
   “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two   
   weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” reads a statement   
   attributed to Kim Godwin, president at ABC News. “While Whoopi has   
   apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about   
   the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands   
   in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and   
   communities.”   
      
   Goldberg’s comments on “The View” reached the highest level of   
   decision makers at Disney, Variety can confirm. According to   
   sources, Peter Rice, the chairman of Disney General Entertainment   
   Content, was consulted on the public fallout for Goldberg.   
      
   Goldberg’s remarks emerged during a conversation on Monday’s   
   broadcast of “The View,” in which the co-hosts discussed a Tennessee   
   school board’s ban of “Maus,” a nonfiction graphic novel about   
   cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s father’s experience surviving the   
   Holocaust.   
      
   “Let’s be truthful about it because [the] Holocaust isn’t about   
   race,” Goldberg said on Monday’s episode. “It’s not about race. It’s   
   about man’s inhumanity to man.”   
      
   The remarks drew immediate, sweeping criticism from Jewish   
   organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and the U.S.   
   Holocaust Museum.   
      
   “The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systemic annihilation of the   
   Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race,” wrote   
   Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. “They   
   dehumanized them and used their racist propaganda to justify   
   slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous.”   
      
   Later Monday, Goldberg apologized for her remarks on social media.   
   She then offered an on-air apology on Tuesday’s episode of “The   
   View.” Greenblatt also appeared as a guest on the broadcast.   
      
   “So yesterday on our show, I misspoke,” Goldberg said at the top of   
   the show. “I said that the Holocaust wasn’t about race and it was   
   instead about man’s inhumanity to man. But it is indeed about race,   
   because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior   
   race. Now, words matter and mine are no exception. I regret my   
   comments as I said and I stand corrected. I also stand with the   
   Jewish people, as they know, and as you all know because I’ve always   
   done that.”   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/whoopi-goldberg-suspended-view-holocaust-   
   024414739.html   
      
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