Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for claiming ‘Holocaust is not about race’: The View star says she is ‘sorry for the hurt’ and ‘stands corrected’ after she stunned co-hosts by insisting it was about ‘man’s inhumanity to man’ because Nazis targeted ‘two white groups’

Talk show host Whoopi Goldberg has apologized after she claimed earlier on Monday that the Holocaust ‘was not about race’ because it involved ‘two groups of white people’ and instead was an example of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’.

Goldberg made the astonishing comments on The View, the ABC show. It stunned her colleagues and sparked outrage among viewers, and Goldberg later apologized.

‘On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man’. I should have said it is about both,’ she said.

‘As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, “The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race.”

‘The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.

‘Written with my sincerest apologies, Whoopi Goldberg.’

Later on Monday, she appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and said that she was dismayed that she had offended so many people.

‘It upset a lot of people, which was never ever ever my intention,’ Goldberg said.

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