Whoopi Goldberg has been criticised for saying that the Holocaust “isn’t about race”. On today’s (31 January) episode of The View, Goldberg and her co-hosts Joy Behar, Sara Haines and Ana Navarro were discussing a Tennessee school board choosing to ban Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, in which around 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany.
The Holocaust is widely defined as the state-sanction extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany across Europe during the Second World War.
Behar then told her that Jews in Nazi Germany were considered “a different race” but Goldberg insisted that the Holocaust was about “man’s inhumanity to man”.
After talking about the graphic novel, Goldberg said: “Let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race.