Heavenly Father give me strength.
First of all, if you haven’t heard, a Tennessee school district banned Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust that has been used to teach kids since the 1980s. If you’re unfamiliar, just know it’s a “graphic novel” in the sense that it is drawn (like a comic book), not in the sense that it is overly gory. Still, it’s an unflinching look at the horrors of the Holocaust with no redemption arc and no escape hatch for you to come out the other side feeling like it wasn’t that bad. White America has recently latched on to the idea that anything that makes them uncomfortable is unacceptable, so history is in the process of being banned. For Maus, they’re pretending to ban the book on the grounds that there is nudity and foul language, as though 8th graders have never seen a tiddy or the word “damn” anywhere, but we all know what the real reason is.
Of course, it came up on The View. And, shocking to some but not to me, the lady who gave herself a Jewish last name and only dates white men has no concept of what the Holocaust was about.
I’m not going to sit here and explain to y’all how the Holocaust was absolutely about race, how Jews were not considered white people until the last 50 years or so (and still aren’t, according to some), and how you cannot just All Lives Matter a genocide to fit your overly simplistic worldview where people should just be nice to each other because we’re all humans.
I just want to point out that Whoopi Goldberg is an actress. She is a groundbreaking, trailblazing Black entertainer in Hollywood who broke barriers thought to be insurmountable by a Black woman with her skin tone and features.
That does not make her a great thinker of the 21st century.
Every time Whoopi says something wild, I have to sit through a 48 hour news cycle of conservative bad faith talking points where they’re in total histrionics about “what the liberals believe.”
After maliciously minimizing the atrocities of the Holocaust, leftists have now begun to rewrite the nature and the history of the Holocaust.
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) January 31, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg is a disgusting, shameless, antisemitic history revisionist. pic.twitter.com/ZfLkicPk5r
I do not claim that lady! Don’t put me in her mess!
Being good at one thing does not mean you are also good at other things. Being a trailblazer in one area does not mean you have educated opinions across the board. Whoopi Goldberg is a trailblazing Black entertainer. But she is OFTEN very WRONG and I have ignored her for years. I don’t expect an award winning heart surgeon to be an excellent ballet dancer. I don’t expect a world renowned chef to also paint murals. But we expect Hollywood stars to be history professors, editorialists, and sociologists. People are rarely experts at multiple things.
It is just so very precious of Caryn Elaine to have loud, wrong, and strong opinions about the Holocaust when she named herself Goldberg because Johnson wasn’t Jewish enough to make it in Hollywood. I’m not even sure why we’re still paying attention to her, especially now that there’s no Meghan McCain for her to shut down. She is just a loud auntie, with a good career, at the cookout, watching the world move on without her and trying to convince people she’s right just because she succeeded against the odds. That makes you talented and hard-working. It doesn’t necessarily mean you know what you’re talking about once you leave the office.
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