Newsweek’s deputy opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, said that the “woke” worldview brought forward by “certain places on the left” may have led to Whoopi Goldberg’s recent controversial comments that the Holocaust “isn’t about race.”
While discussing Goldberg’s comments on Monday, which she has since apologized for,” Ungar-Sargon said that “woke worldview” where it is “white supremacy versus people of color” may have led to controversy.
“Her apology was obviously sincere, she obviously didn’t mean anything by it, but I think the world view that led to to such a grevious, disgusting error about what happened during the Holocaust is endemic in certain places on the left,” she said on Hill.TV’s “Rising.”
She cited the definition of racism put forward by the Anti-Defamation League as one of the ways that the worldview has been normalized. The definition states that racism is “the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.”
“So this is the Anti-defimation League’s own, very wrong, definition of racism,” Ungar-Sargon said. “So, by this definition, Whoopi didn’t really say anything that was that bad, right, she could’ve been very much in the realm of this.”
Goldberg apologized for her comments, adding that “Jewish People around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver.”
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