Whoopi Goldberg suspended for racist comments

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I think the suspension is ridiculous.

I hope she can do the sensitivity training online.

It should be noted that there are Jews who are not "Caucasian."

I've known a few black Jews. Sammy Davis Jr., black entertainer, converted to Judaism.

The reason why Jews are sometimes thought of as being a "race" is because of their Diaspora. Just like the "black race" resulted, primarily, from the African Diaspora.

I was grossly misinformed what race even is. I thought race was by skin color and nationality was by if we are American or Native American, Russian, Jewish, Hungarian, Gypsy, etc. so white supremacy never made sense to me and why being white is best. To me it's just skin color. Imagine two kids fighting about which color is better between Pink and Orange.

Perhaps Woopi was misinformed too about race and people jumped to assuming she was being racist intentionally. She did apologize. I think there is two different types of racists. One of them can be amended because their racism came from naivety and being misguided and can change their view once educated. The other type are just willful and don't care and think anything is woke so no amount of education will make them change their view and they may simply call it gaslighting.

And funny how even people of color are held accountable for saying something racist.

Race is defined as “a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits.” The term ethnicities is more broadly defined as “large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.”

No, race does not only mean skin colour. It's more related to a person's cultural / religious background as described here. ^

That's why there are so many wars worldwide between groups which share the same skin colour but yet have different belief systems, religions, cultural practices, etc. Not to name specific countries but think of the wars between Russia / Ukraine, or Serbians and Croatians, or even Israel and Palestine.

Race is much more nuanced than skin colour. If it were that simple there would be very little war or strife on the planet, because we only have a limited number of skin colours and even those aren't representative of our country of origin.

What she said was poorly worded and misspoken, but not coming from any place of hate or ill intent.

This ^.

My point was the Goldberg said something ill informed that comes off as insensitive -that related to racism- but was not actually itself racist. She needed to be called out. But I agree...she doesnt need severe punishment.

Racism was part of Nazi ideology. Every educated person should know that. Jews were often defined by European Whites as non Whites in the pre WWII era.