How about "Whoopi Goldberg discusses the Holocaust?"
Just when you think the ladies of the View couldn't be any more ignorant, @WhoopiGoldberg says the Holocaust isn't about race.
— Adam Guillette (@adamguillette) January 31, 2022
She says “these [Jews and Nazis] are two white groups of people.”pic.twitter.com/exJ0xlsz7r
After the backlash, Goldberg issued an apology.
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) February 1, 2022
So....lesson learned? Yeah, not so much.
Stephen Colbert: The Nazis would say it's a racial issue.
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) February 1, 2022
Whoopi: This is what's interesting to me because the Nazis lied. It wasn't. pic.twitter.com/LZujsAug41
On Tuesday evening, it was announced Goldberg would be suspended from The View for two weeks, effectively immediately.
Since I'm not a frothing-at-the mouth secular progressive, I don't believe Whoopi should have even been suspended for the sin of woeful ignorance regarding one of the most horrifying events in world history. Erick Erickson concurs.
Goldberg needs some education and context, not punishment. She works on a show where the hosts are trained to dig in their heels and argue, which she did. She was wrong. But she was not showing hatred. And now she’s being punished for behaving as the show incentivizes.
This idea circulating out there that we need to punish everyone we disagree with is getting out of hand.
Y’all, social media and hysterics on all sides are strengthening cancel culture and the perverse effect is that it causes the ideas of those canceled to settle further into the minds of fans.
Whoopi Goldberg should not be suspended from ABC, as they have done. (Joe) Rogan should not be hounded, silenced, or punished for having on heterodox voices. Give room for more voices. Do not curtail current voices. Doing so makes the heterodox ideas stronger and the heretics turn to martyrs.
There may be a silver lining to all this. Because it's a far left prog like Whoopi facing fears of "cancellation," perhaps her fellow secular progressives will have an awakening to the pitfalls of cancel culture. Of course, a prerequisite to obtaining such a revelation would be one possessing intellectual consistency. Sadly that's in short supply these days.
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