{"id":5089,"date":"2022-02-04T19:48:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2022-03-08T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:56:03","slug":"time-out-whoopi-goldberg-abc-suspension-over-holocaust-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/time-out-whoopi-goldberg-abc-suspension-over-holocaust-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Out: Whoopi Goldberg ABC suspension over Holocaust comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch your mouth,<\/p>\n<p>Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC\u2019s #TheView Tuesday evening after she claimed the #Holocaust was \u201cnot about race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for her wrong and hurtful comments,\u201d ABC News president Kim Godwin tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>While Whoopi has apologized, I\u2019ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg, 66, claimed Nazis and Jews were also white on Monday\u2019s program and that this was about inhumanity more than race and repeated the statement on \u201cThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert\u201d that evening. She walked back the remarks on Twitter later that night amid widespread outrage.<\/p>\n<p>The crazy thing is Wikipedia and the dictionary both define Jews as a ethnoreligious group meaning ethnicity and religion . So it appears this is what she was trying to say but still offended some since it seemed she was saying the hate\/discrimination from Holocaust couldn\u2019t be racial because both groups were white. Most networks make their employees sign contracts with morality clauses that give them grounds to suspend and terminate when they find \u201cmoral violations\u201d which is extremely ambiguous and subjective to the times and the opinions of your employer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch your mouth, Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC\u2019s #TheView Tuesday evening after she claimed the #Holocaust was \u201cnot about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[992,1941,1942],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5098,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/5098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}