Whoopi Goldberg appears to be, once again, insisting that the Holocaust wasn't about race ... pointing to the U.S. census as evidence.
Whoopi says that Jewish people themselves are divided on whether they're actually a race or not, even quoting one Jewish friend as saying ..."Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race."
The author points out what many have already said on this topic -- namely, that the Nazis viewed the Jews as a race, therefore they should be discussed as such.To that, Whoopi replied ..."Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?"
Whoopi goes on to double down on the notion that the Holocaust wasn't about race, from her POV, by saying ..."Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision.
She seems hung up on semantics -- specifically, between race and ethnicity -- all 'cause"Jewish" doesn't show up on the census under race. Regardless, there's no doubt Jewish identity is multi-faceted -- and Jews are, for sure, an ethnic group ... and have been seen through this lens throughout pretty much all of history.
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