{"id":2247,"date":"2022-02-02T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:40:36","slug":"should-whoopi-have-been-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/02\/should-whoopi-have-been-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Whoopi have been suspended?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My understanding is that she said the Holocaust was not about race because it was white people against white people. IOW, in her mind there is no Jewish race. And if you look up race — how it’s used by the government<\/a>, for example — that’s right. <\/p>\n

But that perspective seems both reductionist and ahistorical. Just because we have reduced “race” to about five categories today doesn’t mean that’s how people meant the term back in the 1930s and 40s. <\/p>\n

The Nazis were all about the Aryan race — which doesn’t appear on the census, and is regarded as an obsolete concept. But in their minds it was clearly a racial thing. <\/p>\n

Somewhat along the same lines, there was a time when people from central Europe were not regarded as “white.” So what “race” would they be? <\/p>\n

IOW, people used the term very differently in the past. <\/p>\n

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe Whoopi was trying to defend the Holocaust, or say anything negative about Jews. She was simply (wrong-headedly) applying modern definitions of “race” to the Holocaust. <\/p>\n

In my opinion, she should be corrected about that, and she should clarify what she meant, but it’s not grounds for being suspended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My understanding is that she said the Holocaust was not about race because it was white people against white people. IOW, in her mind there is no Jewish race. And if you look up race — how it’s used by the government, for example — that’s right. But that perspective seems both reductionist and ahistorical. … Continue reading “Should Whoopi have been suspended?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}