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Topic	AOC says Whoopi Goldberg suspension over Holocaust comments was unnecessary
eridania67814 02/03/22 12:56:21 PM #33:	Criminalt posted... From what I've read of the interviews and her apologies, she hasn't yet said anything that could reasonably be interpreted as trivializing, excusing, relativizing, or downplaying either the scale or horror of the Holocaust or blaming the victims in any way. All she seems to have done is to wrongheadedly mischaracterize it as "not being about race" simply because there were no genuine "racial" differences between killer and victim (if it wasn't "really" about race, it was definitely about racism), and apparently tried to universalize its meaning by folding it into "man's inhumanity to man". Can anyone point to comments she's previously made about the Holocaust which would indicate this is part of a pattern of wilful misunderstanding? If not, then the suspension might have been deserved on the grounds of dumbassery that you can't and shouldn't give a free pass to -- but a sacking, no. That part. The same people who think Whoopi should be jettisoned from Earth for this moderate transgression are the ones who say "all lives matter" and "there's only one race: the human race" and ask why people of color always make it about race. But then double standards seem to be the only standards right now --- Never in the history of calm down has anyone calmed down by being told to calm down <cite>eridania67814 posted [p:962332758] in AOC says W... [t:79882678]...</cite> <quote>Criminalt posted... </cite> <quote>From what I've read of the interviews and her apologies, she hasn't yet said anything that could reasonably be interpreted as trivializing, excusing, relativizing, or downplaying either the scale or horror of the Holocaust or blaming the victims in any way. All she seems to have done is to wrongheadedly mischaracterize it as "not being about race" simply because there were no genuine "racial" differences between killer and victim (if it wasn't "really" about race, it was definitely about racism), and apparently tried to universalize its meaning by folding it into "man's inhumanity to man". Can anyone point to comments she's previously made about the Holocaust which would indicate this is part of a pattern of wilful misunderstanding? If not, then the suspension might have been deserved on the grounds of dumbassery that you can't and shouldn't give a free pass to -- but a sacking, no.</quote> That part. The same people who think Whoopi should be jettisoned from Earth for this moderate transgression are the ones who say "all lives matter" and "there's only one race: the human race" and ask why people of color always make it about race. But then double standards seem to be the only standards right now --- Never in the history of calm down has anyone calmed down by being told to calm down</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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