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The show in general felt off yesterday. Tara is back for three shows starting today. Hopefully Whoopi doesn't smoke too much before today's show.

TotallyEffed said: "Her comments were a bit cringe."

I'm reading on the NY Post that people are calling for her to get fired for her comments. But, in general, I don't think she's totally off? Like I can see the initial confusion, and I think she got schooled. And has since walked it back.

Fired? No. Suspended. Yes.

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Whoopi's Holocaust comments were absolutely vile, and this suspension is something I applaud the network for doing.

I think Whoopi misspoke. She came back the next day humbled and willing to have a discussion. I think a suspension is harsh.

But that's what I'm saying. She misspoke. As a white guy, I was like, yeah, it's not about race. But then the more I was reading online, I'm like oooooh okay, I can see what they're saying and I educated myself on the subject. And I think Whoopi did the same. On the outside, it looks like "White" Germans hating on "white" Jews, but it's clearly more complex than all that once you throw in the "master race" idea.

I just wish our world was more open to educating and learning than cancelling people after saying one wrong thing.

Ripped Man, I think it would be great if Whoopi took the time to read up and learn the exact same things you have described in your post. But people get defensive in their ignorance. I have caused great consternation in a group of my fellow white people when I have declared "All white people are racist," which is true, because supremacy is in our culture and in our DNA. My oldest sister: "Well, *I'M* not, I don't see color." My other sister, "ALL white people? That includes you." Me: "Yes it does include me." This is not the capacity of their imagination, to reflect and be self-critical. To admit that you have benefited from a system of supremacy, in their mind, is 1) to suggest that's okay by you or 2) that you have to take some action to correct the biased system you benefit from. within

This stuff has been written about and written about and talked about and talked about for decades and decades. But what motivates people to dig in and learn if they think declaring themselves not to be racist or anti-semitic is enough? Whoopi went on Colbert Monday night and in my estimation made things worse.

She kept talking about anti-Semitism in terms of physical aspects of race, seeing Jewish people as white. Her example was if she were walking down the street and came upon a Klan march, she'd run but her Jewish friend might not because the Klan "couldn't tell" they were Jewish. Just in Orlando this past weekend there is video of the Nazi demonstration filmed from within a passing car. At a stop light, one of the Nazis yells at the person filming, "Look at him, he's a Jew. You can tell!" Think about the look of the people who tortured the main character in Mel Gibson's The Passion of The White Jesus. Think of the hooked noses of the bankers in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Think of the racist trolls that used to hang out in this site going after me when I suggested white people benefit from a system of oppression that is racist.

I'm surprised Whoopi didn't take away the message from the great movie "Passing," which was that just because *some people* "can't tell" if somebody is part of a group one belittles and oppresses out loud, doesn't mean they aren't.

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Meghan should have been suspended every other week.

I wonder how Whoopi will recover from this, emotionally. I imagine she’s feeling a lot of shame and betrayal right now.

Reports are surfacing that Whoopi is considered quitting. Considering all she has coming up in terms of movies, it's not like she needs the money. But The View would be completely different without her.

bwaylyric said: "The show needs her more than she needs them."



100%, which is why she wasn't fired.

Agreed. There's still reports that she may quit. Hopefully ABC, the other co-hosts and her family are convincing her not to quit.

There are rumors circulating in the Hollywood Trade chat boards that she is quitting.