Note: This column was written last week.
This week, former award-winning actress and highly decorated blowhard Whoopi Goldberg made a fool of herself. This came as no surprise; Goldberg does that quite regularly on "The View." The good news for Goldberg is that no one notices -- trying to identify which fatuous host takes the cake for most imbecilic comment on any given day is an exercise in multivariate calculus, so Goldberg often tends to meld into the wallpaper of daftness.
But on Monday, Goldberg truly stood out.
Discussing an obscure Tennessee school board deciding to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus" from a Holocaust unit for eighth-graders, Goldberg launched into an explanation of the Holocaust dazzling in both its ignorance and its malignity.
Joy Behar, the usual top contender for the Crown of Idiocy, led off by explaining that the Tennessee school board members "don't like history that makes white people look bad." Then Goldberg got going: "Maybe. This is white people doing it to white people. Y'all go fight amongst yourselves."
This comment would have been insanely insulting, in and of itself: Here was Goldberg, referring to Nazis and Jews as "white people doing it to white people." But Goldberg was just getting started. "If we're going to do this," Goldberg said, "let's be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn't about race. No. It's not about race." Behar correctly said, "They considered Jews a different race." But Goldberg would not tolerate the dissent: "It's not about race. It's not about race ... It's about man's inhumanity to man. That's what it's about."
At this point, Ana Navarro attempted to intervene and stop the crazy train. "But it's about white supremacy," Navarro said. "It's about going after Jews and gypsies." No, said Goldberg. "These are two white groups of people ... You're missing the point. The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let's talk about it for what it is. It's how people treat each other. It's a problem. It doesn't matter if you are black or white because black, white, Jews, Italians, everybody eats each other."
The asininity cannot be overstated here. It is absolutely clear that the Nazis targeted Jews as a race; Hitler wasn't exactly hiding the ball when he stated in "Mein Kampf": "Is not their very existence founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious community, whereas in reality they are a race?" Hitler repeatedly referred to the Jews as a race of parasites, and targeted Jews on the basis of ethnicity rather than religious adherence.
The question must be asked, then: What, precisely, did Goldberg think she was doing? The answer is that she believed she was upholding the intersectional theory of race and racism. That theory holds that society is structured in a hierarchy of victimized and victimizing groups; that groups that are disproportionately successful are victimizers, and that groups that are disproportionately less successful are victimized. Jews are disproportionately successful; thus, they are white. And, intersectional theory posits, racism is not defined as a belief that any other race is superior or inferior to another; instead, racism means -- as the Anti-Defamation League recently defined it -- "the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people."
These two concepts, taken in tandem, mean that Jews cannot be considered victims of antisemitism. They are highly successful; they are white. Thus, they cannot be members of a victimized minority. This is why the mainstream Left is so reluctant to recognize the antisemitism of Hamas (Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman, for example, condemned Israel for defending itself against rocket attacks by Hamas by decrying "Black and brown bodies being brutalized and murdered"); it is why the mainstream Left is complicit in the lie that the only true antisemitism springs from white supremacists, ignoring actual acts of Jew-hatred by members of minority populations. The intersectional Left's conspiracy theory -- that a cabal of white victimizers (including Jews, and now, Asians) control society for its own benefit -- inherently crosses streams with antisemitism.
Goldberg's comments aren't an aberration. They're merely the latest iteration of a pernicious and perverse theory of power in politics -- a conspiracy theory about groups that succeed and the systems in which they succeed.
Ben Shapiro, 38, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps," "The Right Side Of History," and "Bullies." To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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44 comments:
To the left in this country, unless an atrocity happened to blacks it is not really racism and certainly can't be a hate crime.
“The asininity cannot be overstated here.”
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Sorry but I can’t be bothered to give a shit about the opinions of either of these meshuggahs.
These two are all the confirmation I need that the USA has become the Weimar Republic reincarnated. Might as well be Germany in 1922.
And her name is Goldberg. How ironic.
Y'all know where she got her nickname of Whoopi? It's because she passes gas a lot and sounds like a "whoopi cushion." Seriously.
Kingfish withholding comments. Lmaoooooooooo
Her real name is Caryn Johnson.
But all I can remember is her promise to leave the USA if Trump won?
Will admit I liked her in Sister Act and Ghost.
I don't understand why actors think we care about what their opinion may be on a given subject. I don't look to them for guidance.
Actually her name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
Choosing the stage name "Goldburg"seems to have been a Hollywood gimmick to advance her career.
What's the idiotic "woke" term used against White people that enjoy Mexican food ? (Cultural appropriation)... or some goofy shit term like that ???
This Caryn Elaine "Whoopi" Johnson woman appropriated more than a taco when she started using a traditional Hebrew name.
BTW,
Caryn Elaine Johnson is one of the most "White" names
Black parents could ever give to a little Black girl.
@9:05
Goldberg isn’t a traditional Hebrew name it is a German name. A name taken to help diaspora Jews disguise their true identities. Same with names like Zuckerberg and Bernstein. Traditional Hebrew would be something more like Netanyahu or ben Gurion.
@7:05PM
A racist white man will either censor or pathetically attack the divine truth against their ancestors. Book it.
Bring this down to local reality, and the idiocy of the wonderful Whoopi.
Read the "Terror in the Night", a great report by LA Times reporter on how the KKK in Mississippi turned from their activities against the black (yes, I could have used the "N" word here in reference to the KKK of the time, but I didn't want to bring in the Joe Rogan comments) folks in Mississippi and turned to the Jews in the 1967's.
Yes, the Jews were terrorized because of their religion, not their race. Explain otherwise why white folks in Meridian and surrounding area were bombing the houses of white neighbors -- no different than Hitler. The Jews in Germany were just as white as the Jews in Meridian. Successful. Nice people. But -- they didn't fit in the cookie cutter pieces that Hitler (or Sam Bowers of Laurel and his followers.)
I lived through it I lived in it. The difference was that there was not an international war started because of it.
And now - because I am white, and I lived in it, I am blamed for it. Without any evaluation by those that are screaming today that I am the one to blame.
"This week, former award-winning actress and highly decorated blowhard Whoopi Goldberg made a fool of herself."
Talk about a pot and kettle, or in this case, two uninformed blowhards blowing hard...sheesh. Pat Paulsen for Prez - and yep, I know he's dead...therefore, certain to do a better job than the last two.
I believe the Nazis were all white. Never saw a black Nazi.
I believe the Jews were all white. Never saw a black Jew.
My son went to Beth Isreal pre-school and everyone at the Temple was white.
Agree that it was white on white.
How many, if any, houses of Jews were bombed in Meridian? And even if you can find an example, you suggest the white race hated Jews? Just go ahead and pay your ACLU dues and dance to their mantra.
@ 11:18 - 'The Last Two'? You do realize you included Obama in that comment.
Why can’t we all just get along?
If she had mischaracterized motivation behind another genocide-any one of the thousands recorded-would she have been punished?
Would it have mattered?
9:05 She has admitted she took the name Goldberg because it sounded Jewish as she thought Johnson would give her no advantage in New York or Hollywood.
She then unashamedly pandered to the Jewish community in all her endeavors social and professional. You can bet she had no idea she was ruffling Jewish feathers when she made a statement probably from her heart. Now that she knows who she offended, she will crawl over hot coals to retract what she obviously really believes. Why listen to someone who cannot defend their own convictions. She is too fake for even a morning talk show. That's fake.
@7:00 AM
Excellent question and we all know the answer.
@11:38 PM
Go read Revelation 2:9 and ponder what God is saying.
Yall need to lay off Whoopie.
She was on Star Trek
And there is nothing more black and jewish than Star Trek.
Except Blaxploitation cinema
And the hip hop and r&b industry
Oh and slavery.
Can’t forget that Jews literally ran the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Seems like just last week Kingfish was using Whoopie as an example of how Black people love Star Trek and MLK saved the show.
Asides from being black, Whoopi is as white as they come ..all the way down to her real and stage name ! She is acting...she loves the spotlight. Pfffft, the original "karen" only spelled even more white. This women's true circle of friends are Jewish !
@8:14
Yes that is the argument that people like Ben fear the most. All that old colonial and pre-Civil War newsprint advertising for “Solomon, Shapiro, and Sons Slave Auctions” and also the printed bounties on runaway slaves. They seem to have a lot of common names.
The same newsprint that has been compiled into reference books by more than a few civil rights groups and very quietly published. I have a copy of a few myself. That is a topic that we need to have out in the open. But alas, slavery must remain a WHITE crime.
6:33 - I'll tell you why - differences. And the differences are much deeper than color of skin. I live in a nice, middle class neighborhood. None of us are rich, but we care about how we raise our children, maintain our homes, and live our lives. Then we get a new neighbor who cares little about their kids unless something happens to them and then there is crying and wailing all over the place, takes no pride in home ownership, and conducts themselves contrary to our beliefs. I cannot and will not accept that. That's why we all can't just get along.
Get your facts straight BS. As dumb as Goldberg's comment was, she actually said "it wasn't about racism", not that "it wasn't targeting Jews". This guy let's no fact get in the way of his provocations. BS, the perfect intials.
Woppie has a long history of making stupid statements such as Roman Polanski didn't "rape-rape" a 13 year old girl, her defense of Mel Gibson after his profanity laced rant about Jewish people, and now about the motivations for the Holocaust. Who care what Woopie says?
@4:02 The synagogue in Meridian was bombed by the KKK. Then there was a shootout at the President of the Temple's home with the KKK. Just google it
What antisemites don’t understand is that our entire economy will collapse if we turn on God’s Chosen. American Exceptionalism is actually Jewish-American Exceptionalism. There are just some things we go along with and some things we do not talk about.
Do yall remember the episode of TNG when Whoopie met Mark Twain in the old West and he became infatuated with her and acted as if she were the smartest and most beautiful woman he had ever seen? That was the moment when 13 year old me became aware that Hollywood is completely full of shit.
And nothing else I have seen has changed my opinion in the last 30 years.
Fill in the blanks for me here. When I was a kid, my folks took me to Broadmoor Baptist. I think it was Brother Futral who referred to a bout of anti-Semitic activity that took place recently in Jackson as he spoke out against it. He mentioned something about a man's teeth being welded shut. Does anyone remember this?
Yes 10:07, it was just on about a week ago. Thing is, her character in TNG isn't human and Twain enjoyed the company of folks who were equals intellectually. He also became infatuated with Mr. Data et al .....got to visit a starship and ended up being the hero. Lol, your 13 year old ass didn't give a second thought about Hollywood. Sad part is that many of the liberal ideas from Star Trek that were subtle have been hijacked and twisted by progs.
Kingfish won’t approve comments which focus upon slavery and institutionalized slavery.
Only the comments hurling insults at Whoopi Goldberg’s statement against Jews.
Yet, a white man, arguably one of the greatest presidents ever referred to Hitler as a “great man.” Hahahahaha.
@9:21 AM Hitler and the Nazis considered Judaism to be a race; a race that he was trying to eliminate.
@10:19PM
Question: What would JFK refer to Kingfish as?
Answer:
a) redneck
b) gadfly
c) racist
d) all of the above
The hypocrisy in our Nation is stunning.
Whether it's Whoopie Goldberg or Tucker Carlson...both are bizarro TV talking heads.
It's the elected officials who spout absurdities and appear historically clueless that worry me.
Don't know why, in picking crazies on both sides of the political spectrum, Ben thinks Whoopie is noteworthy or representative of anything.
But, really, folks, if you are going to trust anyone on TV, first find out if they have any real world knowledge in the subject at hand or if they are telling the truth. Might also find out if they have a financial motivation to spew the nonsense. It's easy to check facts these days.
And, the numb skull who wrote "no Jews were bombed in Meridan" seems to have memory loss about the cross burnings and hatred the KKK had for not just Jews but Catholics. Your membership requirements give you away.
@Kingfish
What you are saying is as plausible as the Auschwitz Holocaust Roller Coaster that survivors reported the Nazis built to accelerate Jews at enormous speed and force more of them into the furnaces!
I know you are too chickenshit too approve this but you have got to read that excerpt from a very real book called “Inside the Concentration Camps” and there are so many more including a deadly masturbatorium and other really perverse nonsense from some really sick minds.
Who cares what that idiot Whoopi says? The neo-cons on the right can be just as silly as the “woke” leftists in getting the vapors over crap like this. Of course, nothing triggers the neo-con “right” (not really conservatives) like someone minimizing or (God forbid) someone questioning the Holocaust narrative. Even reasonable questions or comments like pointing out that the Communists murdered way more people than Hitler aren’t allowed because atrocities against Jews are apparently worse than atrocities against other racial groups. Why doesn’t the atrocities in Rwanda in the 90s get more mileage for those people? Personally I am a little weary of all the Holocaust attention. Read up on the Holodomor and Pol Pot’s atrocities sometime. The Jews don’t have a monopoly on persecution but they sure milk the Holocaust for all it’s worth. I probably wasted my time writing this because KF seems awfully leery of approving any comments he perceives as critical of Jews or African Americans.
I don’t hate Jews but it is not right that they themselves can maintain a “Culture of Critique” against every other race on the planet while crying “OY VEY ANTI-SEMITE!” whenever they (or their apartheid ethnostate, Israel) is criticized.
We all used to understand and accept that survival is a competition for resources and everyone wanted the best for their progeny and wanted to see their line survive and thrive. Now we are told that this dream is evil and racist. Guess who still collectively functiona this way while telling everyone else they are evil racists if they do it too?
They have a right to exist, and to thrive, but not at the expense of others and not to be above calling them out.
@10:26
I am pretty sure they consider themselves a race apart. The “right of return” to Israel requires a verified Jewish matriarch.
Bravo 12:05 PM
Right on!
He rejected most of my comments. Glad some truth got through.
I have a feeling the fish is going to ultimately find out something that Trump found out the hard way… There’s really no reward in the end for being an obedient shabbos goy.
Per Merriam-Webster: Definition of race
a: any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry.
b: the fact of dividing people, or of people being divided, into such groups.
c: a group of people sharing a common cultural, geographical, linguistic, or religious origin or background.
d: the descendants of a common ancestor; a group sharing a common lineage
11:47 : A comparison of Tucker to Whoopi has to the dumbest i've ever seen. Folks like Tucker errrrrr Tucker damn near all by himself has kept this country and FOX NEWS from the liberal gallows. I challenge anyone to a look see into Tucker Carlson. He is legit. Other that that....great comment.
12:07 : You somehow wrote that in a way ....in a way that makes you only and simply prejudice. Ahhh, the good ol days. Well done ?
@11:30 AM
C.
B.
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