Caustic, Flammable, Incendiary Holocaust Truths

"Let's be truthful about it because Holocaust isn't about race. It's not about race. It's not about race. It's about man's inhumanity to man ... "

"These are two white groups of people! 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 doesn't matter if you're Black or white, Jews, it's each other." 

Whoopi Goldberg original incomprehensible logic

"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."

"As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, 'The Holocaust was about the Nazis' systematic annihilation of the Jewish people -- who they deemed to be an inferior race'. I stand corrected."

"The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waver. I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused."

Whoopi Goldberg amended incomprehensible logic

Lt. Col. Ed Seiller of Louisville, Kentucky, stands amid a pile of Holocaust victims as he speaks to 200 German civilians who were forced to see the grim conditions at the Landsberg concentration camp, on May 15, 1945.  The Atlantic

 

Celebrities feel it is their destiny to launch their opinions through social media to prove just how sensitive they are, how knowledgeable, how comprehensive their information-gathering prowess is; nothing seems to escape their opinions. Opinions they share with their multitudes of followers who give credit to whatever is emitted from their sometimes-malfunctioning intellectual smugness. Sometimes in the process they create a sensation of condemnation for thoughtlessly taking credit for issues they know little of, and don't hesitate to misinterpret.

The Holocaust is one of those issues. The world is full of historical deniers, convinced that episodes in history cannot have occurred because they are unable to wrap their minds around certain events or because they feel people make too much of an issue out of events that don't really interest them. History, after all, is gone and over. But of course, it is never gone and over and done with for those who were directly impacted; the survivors and those whose humanity was diminished through a state-orchestrated genocide.

 

American soldiers walk by row after row of corpses lying on the ground beside barracks at the Nazi concentration camp at Nordhausen, Germany, on April 17, 1945. The camp is located about 70 miles west of Leipzig. As the camp was liberated on April 12, the U.S. Army found more than 3,000 bodies, and a handful of survivors.  The Atlantic

 

Whoopie Goldberg in particular views world events through the lens of Black experience and history. To her and those like her, nothing that has ever happened would ever equal the suffering of people like her, enslaved, abused and used as slave labour, families torn apart, children ripped away from mothers since they were regarded as personal chattel of the slave owning fraternity. That lens views their oppressors as White.

In Africa, black tribes themselves embarked on slave-hunting expeditions of other blacks. Dark-skinned Arabs viewed African blacks as inferior proto-humans fit for slavery. Turks took white captives into slavery. The ancient Greeks believed that some people were born into slavery and had no compunction despite their philosophical wisdom, in treating them as such. Jews too suffered enslavement and slave labour, but their fate had a different conclusion; not to be viewed as protected private property but ushered into a massive cauldron of collective annihilation.

 

A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers in this April 19, 1943 photo. The picture formed part of a report from SS Gen. Stroop to his Commanding Officer, and was introduced as evidence to the War Crimes trials in Nuremberg in 1945  The Atlantic

 

Surely someone who deliberately takes on a name readily identified as Jewish is sensitive to the history behind that name and its origins? On the other  hand, show business is known for its quirks leading to attention. And the consequences of taking on a readily-identifiable Jewish name and claiming some distant Jewish ancestry can be useful in an entertainment industry identified with Jewish entrepreneurship. The depth of 'commitment' to honouring the source can be fairly shallow.

Whoopie Goldberg speaks of Jews as being 'white', and the anti-Semitism that led to the obliteration of Europe's Jews by a proudly Aryan nation representing an argument between 'whites'. Which does little to address the reality of Ethiopian Jews, Chinese Jews, Indian Jews Kurdish Jews, Arab Jews, coming in all shades of the human genetic rainbow. What they have in common is their claim to be part of the tribe, priding themselves on their Judaic culture and adherence to Judaism.

 

German soldiers question Jews after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. In October 1940, the Germans began to concentrate Poland's population of over 3 million Jews into overcrowded ghettos. In the largest of these, the Warsaw Ghetto, thousands of Jews died due to rampant disease and starvation, even before the Nazis began their massive deportations from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- the first urban mass rebellion against the Nazi occupation of Europe -- took place from April 19 until May 16 1943, and began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. It ended when the poorly-armed and supplied resistance was crushed by German troops  The Atlantic

 

Skeptics of the Holocaust close their minds to the reality of history. But history has documented itself fully. The meticulous records maintained by Germany alone lending more than adequate testimony of their Final Solution to the pathology of Jewish existence. Survivors of slave labour camps, death camps, those who went into hiding or were kept alive by compassionate non-Jews testify to the tragedy that overtook their communities. 

 

Because they were Jews.

The Holocaust? A very visible horror that destroyed the lives of men, women and children because of their religious, ethnic, cultural origins. The mass destruction of the Jews of Europe was 'racist' in origin, and that there is a mature audience in the world today ignorant of that fact is quite simply mind-boggling. Some flippant statements of belief are shattering and painful, and some apologies cut to the quick by their shallow roots.

This photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting a Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, sometime between 1941 and 1943. This image is titled "The last Jew in Vinnitsa", the text that was written on the back of the photograph, which was found in a photo album belonging to a German soldier.  The Atlantic