Whoopi's suspended for two weeks, for her remarks.....

[SVPete]

  FZ:

Whoopi's suspended for two weeks, for her remarks.....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216311084

ABC News suspended "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks on Tuesday night, one day after she drew significant criticism for falsely declaring that the Holocaust was "not about race."

"Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I've asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Godwin added. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities."
As Godwin said in her statement, Goldberg had in fact apologized for her remarks. On Monday night, Goldberg apologized in a note posted to Twitter. And on Tuesday, Goldberg opened up "The View" offering yet another apology.

Per CNN….

madaboutharry (37,229 posts)

1. I'm not sure how to feel about this.

I think she feels bad, but might not really understand why what she said is wrong. Maybe a field trip to The Holocaust Museum would have been a better choice than a suspension.

IIRC, Whoopster is 70ish. How in Hades did she avoid learning about the Nazis' racism? Antisemitic racism, anti-Slav racism, anti-Romani racism. Did she stay stoned and/or skip school for her entire 4th Grade through 12th Grade?! Her comment wasn't ignorance, she was just trying to apply the Prog Dogma that only whites can be racists, and only when when are oppressing POC.

Response to a kennedy (Original post)Tue Feb 1, 2022, 10:03 PM
Star Member dflprincess (26,678 posts)

2. Did they ever suspend Meghan McCain for the crap she spewed?

Whoopi issued a sincere apology and made it clear this was a learning experience for her. I don't think she deserves this.

No, Meghan still hates Bogey-Trump, she didn't apologize.

demtenjeep (31,169 posts)

10. yet hassletwit and my daddy mccain spew garbage day in and day out

Whoopi doesn't need their money

Tell them to pound sand

Quoted just to display Pam's 12YO-grade name-calling, and to point out its impotence. Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Meghan McCain remain unaffected by DU-folks' hatred, and are probably unaware of DU's existence.

Sympthsical (3,153 posts)

15. Let's play, "If a Republican Had Said It"

I don't think the response would be, "This suspension is unnecessary!"

She said what she said. Then doubled down on Colbert. Then released a limp apology that was obviously crafted by PR. Because I suspect if it had come out of her own mouth live on air, it would've just been another Colbert.

Whoopi has problematic views on race and sexual assault. It's not her first rodeo. Papering over bad behavior because we like the person makes our condemnations of the people we don't less credible

  It took 15 replies for a DU-member to post something not knee-jerk grade. Let's play "If a Republican Had Said It" indeed:

* The DU consensus would be that a 2 week suspension was totally inadequate, and Hypothetical Republican should have been canned, never to work in Hollyweird again;

* Some DU-members would have called for Hypothetical Republican to be prosecuted for a "Hate Crime";

* "All Republicans Are Nazis" would have saturated pretty much every post on the hypothetical thread.

[67 Rover]

Its not like ABC was rape raped. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Its not like ABC was rape raped. 

    

For context for those who've forgotten the reference:

Polanski was not guilty of 'rape-rape', says Whoopi Goldberg

'We're a different kind of society, we see things differently,' actor says in defence of Roman Polanski

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-whoopi-goldberg

[Drafe Hoblin]

Deadweight. 

There's probably more enthusiasm for cloning a Siberian wooly-mammoth than there is for her returning to the show.

[Wineslob]

Caryn Elaine Johnson

Her real name BTW.

[jukin]

Fun Fact: Whoopi is 5 foot 1 inches tall standing but 7 foot 3 inches tall when laying on her back.

Whoopi has everything needed to be a DUmbass DUchebag; ignorance, arrogance, morbidly obese, black, and ignorance.... she likes ignorance.

[DLR Pyro]

Caryn Elaine Johnson

 

Her real name BTW.

Based on her real name and this snippet from wikipedia, it looks like she is not Jewish, but appropriated a Jewish last name to assist her in her career...

About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it's part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black", and "I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don't go to temple, but I do remember the holidays."[16] She has stated that "people would say 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.'"[16] One account recalls that her mother, Emma Johnson, thought the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for her daughter to become a star.[16] Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were African Americans, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg.[12] Results of a DNA test, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day Guinea-Bissau. Her admixture test indicates that she is of 92 percent sub-Saharan African origin and of 8 percent European origin.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg

[SVPete]

So ~3/32 of Whoopster's ancestry is non-African. Are Jews considered "European" in that DNA test? Is she more Jewish than Kammie is black? Or is Whoopster as much Jewish as Rachel Dolezal is black?

[67 Rover]

So ~3/32 of Whoopster's ancestry is non-African. Are Jews considered "European" in that DNA test? Is she more Jewish than Kammie is black? Or is Whoopster as much Jewish as Rachel Dolezal is black?

More Jewish than Pshycojawea is indian.

[Ptarmigan]

Whoopi Goldberg ‘livid,’ threatening to quit ‘The View’ over her suspension: source
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/whoopi-goldberg-threatening-to-quit-the-view-source/

Whoopi Goldberg is “livid” after she was suspended from “The View” over her claim that the Holocaust was “not about race” — and is telling co-workers she is going to quit the show, according to a source.

Goldberg, 66, feels “humiliated” at being disciplined by ABC execs after she followed their advice to apologize for the ill-conceived comments, a well-placed insider told The Post.

“She feels ABC executives mishandled this. She followed their playbook. She went on ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ and then apologized again on ‘The View’ the next day,” a source said.

Whoopi Goldberg is threatening to leave The View.

[DefiantSix]

Whoopi Goldberg ‘livid,’ threatening to quit ‘The View’ over her suspension: source
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/whoopi-goldberg-threatening-to-quit-the-view-source/

Whoopi Goldberg is threatening to leave The View.

[SVPete]

Fun Fact: Whoopi is 5 foot 1 inches tall standing but 7 foot 3 inches tall when laying on her back.
...

A female version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un2Gs_4zh_U .

[SVPete]

Bee-Sting:

Biden Quietly Withdraws Whoopi Goldberg SCOTUS Nomination

[Ralph Wiggum]

Bee-Sting:

Biden Quietly Withdraws Whoopi Goldberg SCOTUS Nomination

 

[SVPete]

The Red Queen is a Queen of Color so she should be able to get away with this, right?