In a shocking segment, actress and “The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg stated her belief that the Holocaust wasn’t about racism because ‘two white groups” were involved. Not only were her comments stunningly insensitive and horrifically ignorant of historical facts, it’s a reflection of how the left’s interpretation of racism only goes one way and thus discrimination against certain groups, like Jews, have lost all meaning in certain segments of society.

“The View” was launched as a program where women of different viewpoints could come together and discuss the important topics of the day over coffee. That’s not the case anymore. Over the last decade, the “The View” has devolved into a show where its leading Leftist hosts, Goldberg and Joy Behar, beat up on the lone conservative host and conservative beliefs and values. The outrageous and biased comments made by Goldberg and Behar, in particular, have become fodder for news outlets across the country.

But this latest segment is especially egregious. 

In a discussion over the decision of a Tennessee school to remove the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel “Maus” from the library and curriculum, due to concerns that the content is too intense for middle schoolers, Goldberg appeared to publicly dismiss the loss of over six million Jews in the Holocaust.

“The Holocaust isn’t about race,” Goldberg said. “No, it’s not about race.”

Behar responded, “Well, they considered Jews a different race.”

Goldberg doubled down, stating, “It’s not about race.”

“Then what is it about?” Behar asked.

“It’s about man’s inhumanity to man, that’s what it’s about,” Goldberg said.

Perhaps she should have spent more time in history class, as the historic racism against the Jews in Europe especially played an indisputably key role in the Holocaust and other atrocities committed by the Nazis, as one of her co-hosts tried to point out.

“But it’s about a white supremacist going after Jews and Gypsies,” co-host Ana Navarro attempted to explain, as Goldberg tried to talk over her.

“But these are two white groups of people,” Goldberg said. Her colleagues, to their credit, disagreed.

“You’re missing the point,” Goldberg continued. “The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It’s a problem. It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, cause black, white, Jews, Italians, everybody eats each other.”

Not sure how the Italians fit into Goldberg’s statements when it comes to World War II and the Holocaust. Was she talking about Italian dictator Benito Mussolini or Italy’s highly competitive Medieval and Renaissance city-states that constantly competed for land, titles and riches before it became a united country in the late 1800s?

Nah, that’s probably giving her far too much credit.

Sadly, these comments by Goldberg are not necessarily surprising, she is a high school drop out who’s hasn’t seemingly picked up a history book in decades, but it’s unlikely that she’ll be removed or placed under any disciplinary action by the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC.

Because to the Left, her comments are not racist.

As the Black Lives Matter movement has gained steam and taken over society, the definition of racism has lost all meaning. Racism is no longer defined as one group of people being discriminatory against another group of people, regardless of the color of their skin, it only matters if white people are racist against blacks, Hispanics or Asians. However, even that definition is seemingly too broad anymore. 

For some on the Left, racism only exists or matters when white people are seen as discriminatory against black people.

So, Goldberg doesn’t care if a Jew considers her statements horribly racist, and many do and she’s be criticized by the anti-defamation league. Jews, in her view, are white and ergo their victimization doesn’t matter. Only hers does, and that of other black people. 

But when it comes to being marginalized and the victims of large and aggressive empires, there is no group that has seen more historic discrimination, aggression and death than the Jewish people. 

Historically, the Jews were captive slaves of Egypt and, after settling and claiming their land in ancient Israel, became the target of successive Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek and eventually Roman campaigns and empires over the next several hundred years. The last of which resulted in the great Jewish Revolt, which saw the Jews removed from their home in Israel and scattered throughout the far reaches of the Roman Empire, mostly Western Europe, an event known as the diaspora.

Throughout the next two millennia, the persecution in Europe never ended. 

There was the Spanish Inquisition, Jewish massacres during the scourge of the Black Death and many other events where the Jews became the target of European aggression, which all culminated in the Holocaust, where Adolf Hitler led the Nazi party and Germans and Austrians on a campaign of destruction against Europe’s Jews. 

The apparatus and bureaucracy of death constructed by the Nazis was so efficient that it nearly succeeded. Entire families and villages, in certain cases, were wiped from existence. 

The Wannsee Conference, where the Nazis determined the structure of what became their Final Solution to the Jewish Question (the Holocaust), occurred just 80 years ago this month. 

That certain people in the Western world remain so blind to the racism perpetrated against the Jews is incredibly disturbing, especially when it’s a prominent woman on a television show. Her flippant and obvious ignorance denigrates an entire group of people and their experience on national television, especially as there are still survivors who can testify to the atrocities they and their families experienced.

Heaven forbid if someone was that flippant about the deaths of 100-300 blacks in the Tulsa Race Massacre. Then that’s racism, but six million Jews killed is just about “man’s inhumanity to man.” That vague definition could describe a serial killer or a Nazi, and, of course, that’s the point.

The Holocaust was incredibly real, and the racism undercurrents that drove it were terrifyingly brutal. If we are a society that is going to recon with racism, it must be with the understanding that racism exists everywhere and skin color is of little consequence when it comes to perpetrators.