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Topic	AOC says Whoopi Goldberg suspension over Holocaust comments was unnecessary
Criminalt 02/04/22 4:21:17 PM #126:	UnfairRepresent posted... She did however downplay the holocaust You'll need to quote the words that you interpret as "downplaying". I've just watched the video you linked to, and I'm not hearing what you seem to be hearing to make you think that. She's insistent that because of their historical experiences black people define race differently, i.e. primarily by skin colour, and that from a black perspective, Jews are white and not a race apart; and she's clearly not backing down from that position. But there's no hint that she's denying the Nazis targeted the Jews for extermination specifically because of their Jewishness: she says the issue was "ethnicity" (rather than race), which forced the Nazis to work harder to identify members of the chosen target group. (Which might have been true in Germany but not in Poland or the USSR, because of the higher degree of segregation; but I doubt Goldberg knew that.) Nor did she question the numbers, nor the monstrosity of the killings. Discourse on race in America today is framed overwhelmingly in terms of black and white. Why is it so surprising that Goldberg might crudely define race, and racism, by skin colour alone, seeing as it's what most other people do? --- No tricks <cite>Criminalt posted [p:962367237] in AOC says W... [t:79882678]...</cite> <quote>UnfairRepresent posted... </cite> <quote>She did however downplay the holocaust</quote>You'll need to quote the words that you interpret as "downplaying". I've just watched the video you linked to, and I'm not hearing what you seem to be hearing to make you think that. She's insistent that because of their historical experiences black people define race differently, i.e. primarily by skin colour, and that from a black perspective, Jews are white and not a race apart; and she's clearly not backing down from that position. But there's no hint that she's denying the Nazis targeted the Jews for extermination specifically because of their Jewishness: she says the issue was "ethnicity" (rather than race), which forced the Nazis to work harder to identify members of the chosen target group. (Which might have been true in Germany but not in Poland or the USSR, because of the higher degree of segregation; but I doubt Goldberg knew that.) Nor did she question the numbers, nor the monstrosity of the killings. Discourse on race in America today is framed overwhelmingly in terms of black and white. Why is it so surprising that Goldberg might crudely define race, and racism, by skin colour alone, seeing as it's what most other people do? --- No tricks</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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