this time, use this opportunity, and use her amazing platform to educate herself and to share what she learns with her audience and with the country at large. visit the holocaust museum. you know, meet with survivors. work with the adl. there are lots of ways whoopi can make i ahuge difference. and i hope she ll do that. does intent matter? i mean, words matter of course. but does intent matter, jonathan? especially in this situation. well, look, of course intent matters. i mean, it s really important that people say what they mean and they mean what they say. and so again, i think when she was talking yesterday about these issues, and i think she really, again, created a kind of confusion and hurt because the holocaust was absolutely about race. it was a racialized anti-semitism, don. and again, that might not fit with the way that some people think about race, the way all of us as americans have to confront
people. roll it, francis. could welcome and welcome to the view. you saw the news. whoopi will be back in two weeks. okay. greg: it s so cute when one of their side gets punished. they look like they ran out of raw cookie dough in the green room. whoopi was suspended for two weeks because she said the holocaust had nothing to do with race. she said this on a show called the view which has everything to do with race, except now. the holocaust isn t about race. no, it s about it s not about race. it s not about race. what s it about? it s about man s inhumanity to man. greg: that is heroically stupid, even for the view. what did she think hitler meant when he said master race?
started with a book maus, right, the pulitzer please winning book maus and what people don t know about anti-semitism. and jonathan, there was a poll that many people have no idea what the term anti-semitism means in this country. so we need a lot of educating in this country. we do. what s some parting words here when people say well, if you ask a lot of people on the street, do you believe anti-semitism exists? are jewish people, it a race or is judaism a religion, a race, what have you? i think many people have no idea. what do we do? anti-semitism, we re never going to beat anti-semitism or hate of any kind by just arresting people or litigating. we need to change hearts and minds. it starts with education, right. it s the oldest hatred, and it s this conspiracy theory, don, that s lasted for thousands of
mouse, a novel about nazi death champs. here are those comments followed by her apology the next day. let s be truthful about it. because the holocaust isn t about race. it s not about race. it s not about race. what is it about? because it s about man s inhumanity to man. i said something that i feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined. my words upset so many people, which was never my intention. it is about race. hitler and the nazis considered the jews to be an inferior race. i regret my comments, as i said, and i stand corrected. in addition to the apology, the program brought on anti-defamation league ceo to discuss the remarks.
anger because people feel very differently. but i thought it was a salient discussion because as a black person, i think of race as being something that i can see, so i see you and i know what race you are. and let s be truthful about it because the holocaust isn t about race. it s not about race? they say they are different race. but it s not about race. it s not about race. what is it about? it s about mann s inhumanity to man. that s what it s about. it s about what s a premise he. these are two white people. you re missing the point. you re missing the point. the minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. sean: joe, as i watch first, i thought it was very inarticulate that it appears on