Whoopi Goldberg apologizes immediately for slur, despite slower response to Holocaust remark
Julia Johnson
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Whoopi Goldberg issued an immediate apology on Wednesday for using a variation of a derogatory term towards Romani people.
The View host, known for making controversial statements in the past, was discussing former President Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels at the time of the offensive remark.
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“The people who still believe that he got, you know, gypped somehow in the election, will still believe that he cared enough about his wife to pay the … money from his personal thing,” she said during the segment.
Gypped is a variation of the term Gypsy, which is a derogatory term for Romani people.
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Less than an hour after The View’s live broadcast ended, the message was posted to the show’s Twitter account.
“You know, when you’re a certain age, you use words that you know from when you’re a kid or you remember saying, and that’s what I did today, and I shouldn’t have,” she explained in the apology. “I should have thought about it a little longer before I said it, but I didn’t, and I should have said ‘cheated,’ and I used another word, and I’m really, really sorry.”
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Goldberg was not quite as quick to apologize for claiming that the Holocaust was not “about race” last year.
“The Holocaust isn’t about race,” she claimed on the Jan. 31, 2022, episode of The View. “No, it’s not about race.”
“It’s not about race,” she reiterated. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man, that’s what it’s about.”
She then apologized hours later in a tweet that no longer exists as the host has deleted her Twitter account.
“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 Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected,” Goldberg wrote at the time.
Notably, her claim about the Holocaust did not prompt the swift video response that her use of the phrase “gypped” on Wednesday’s episode did.
After her apology, ABC President Kim Godwin announced that the host would be suspended from the program for two weeks.
“I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments,” she said.
Goldberg evidently did not learn from this experience.
In December 2022, she was forced to offer her “sincere apologies again” for new comments on the Holocaust.
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“Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective,” she had said in an interview.
“It was never my intention to appear as if I was doubling down on hurtful comments, especially after talking with and hearing people like rabbis and old and new friends weighing in,” Goldberg apologized once again. “My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not.”