The View cohost had said the Holocaust “isn’t about race” on Monday’s episode.
I stand corrected."
I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused."
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She signed the note as “Written with my sincerest apologies.”
It’s not about race."
When cohostJoy Beharpointed out that the Nazis saw Jewish people as “a different race,” Goldberg disagreed.
“It’s about man’s inhumanity to man,” she said.
“That’s what it’s about.”
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, meanwhile, tweeted, “Racism was central to Nazi ideology.
Jews were not defined by religion, but by race.
Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder.”
