Sunday 6 February 2022

'Prioritizing punitive measures is misguided': Whoopi Goldberg's The View co-host Sara Haines hits out at fans who say her two-week suspension is not enough after she claimed the 'Holocaust wasn't racist'

 Whoopi Goldberg's co-host Sara Haines is slamming fans who think suspending the star for two weeks wasn't enough. 

Haines, 44, posted an endearing throwback photo to Instagram showing her and Goldberg, 66, smiling on The View set as they snapped a selfie, saying the memory 'warmed my heart,' despite the ongoing controversy. 


'This just popped up and warmed my heart. That’s my Whoops!!!!' she captioned the shot on Friday.  

While many fans said commented that they missed the controversial host on the show, some called out Whoopi's suspension as being disappointing and slammed the two stars for it.

But Haines wasn't having it, as she responded on her own post: 'I'd like to invite people trolling the post to go play somewhere else. 

'To learn from a moment is all we can ask of anyone. And prioritizing punitive measures at the expense of the message/issue (and teaching moment) are misguided.' 

Goldberg was suspended from the show for two weeks following her insensitive comments stating that the 'Holocaust is not about race' because it involved 'two groups of white people.' The star, who is quite known for having strong opinions, said one of the world's biggest genocides was an example of 'man's inhumanity to man.' 

She later tried to roll back her comments in an apology on Twitter on January 31, writing: 'On today's show, I said the Holocaust "is not about race, but about man's inhumanity to man." I should have said it was about both.' 

The View co-host Sara Haines, 44, (right) posted an endearing photo (pictured) to Instagram showing her and Whoopi Goldberg, 66, (left) smiling on set as they snapped a selfie, saying the memory 'warmed my heart,' despite the ongoing controversy

The View co-host Sara Haines, 44, (right) posted an endearing photo (pictured) to Instagram showing her and Whoopi Goldberg, 66, (left) smiling on set as they snapped a selfie, saying the memory 'warmed my heart,' despite the ongoing controversy

In the comment section, she asked fans to 'go play somewhere else' and to look at this 'issue' as a 'teaching moment'

In the comment section, she asked fans to 'go play somewhere else' and to look at this 'issue' as a 'teaching moment' 

Besties: The pair (pictured in September) are quite close and have been seen on multiple occasion showing affection on the show and on the red carpet
Besties: The pair (pictured in October) are quite close and have been seen on multiple occasion showing affection on the show and on the red carpet

Besties: The pair (pictured in 2021) are quite close and have been seen on multiple occasions showing affection on the show and on the red carpet

Whoopi apologized on January 31 for her insensitive comments, stating that she should have said the Holocaust was about both race and man's inhumanity to man

Whoopi apologized on January 31 for her insensitive comments, stating that she should have said the Holocaust was about both race and man's inhumanity to man 

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Despite correcting her on the show, her other View co-hosts are also reportedly 'furious' by Goldberg's suspension, with Ana Navarro saying: 'This was an incredibly unfortunate incident. Whoopi is a lifelong ally to the Jewish community. She is not an anti-Semite. Period. I am sad. And I have nothing else to say.' 

However - despite apologizing on Monday - Goldberg went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday and claimed that, to her, race was something she could 'see.'

'I feel, being black, when we talk about race it's a very different thing to me,' she told Colbert. 'So I said I thought the Holocaust wasn't about race. And it made people very angry. I'm getting a lot of mail from folks and a lot of anger. 

'But I thought it was a salient discussion because as a black person I think of race as being something that I can see.'

Her suspension from The View this week is also the pinnacle of a years-long habit of making off-color remarks about Jewish people that includes a recipe she wrote for a celebrity cookbook in the 1990s called 'Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken', DailyMail.com exclusively revealed.

In 1993, Goldberg - whose real name is Caryn Johnson - submitted the recipe to Cooking in The Litchfield Hills, a charity cookbook comprised of recipes from the well-heeled residents of the leafy Connecticut suburb.

DailyMail.com exclusively obtained a copy of the long-forgotten cookbook, where Whoopi's recipe mocking Jewish-American women glaringly stands out among friendlier submissions like legend Diane Sawyer's 'roasted potato skins with scallion dip', the late Eartha Kitt's 'summer zucchini soup with nasturtium blossoms' and Oscar de la Renta's 'fresh pumpkin and crab soup.'  

She went on Steven Colbert the following night and claimed that race, to her, was something that she could 'see'

She went on Steven Colbert the following night and claimed that race, to her, was something that she could 'see' 

Earlier this week, DailyMail.com exclusive revealed a controversial cookbook recipe Goldberg that mock Jewish-American women

Earlier this week, DailyMail.com exclusive revealed a controversial cookbook recipe Goldberg that mock Jewish-American women


Whoopi's recipe reads: 'Send chauffeur to your favorite butcher shop for the chicken (save the brown paper bag). Have your cook 1) Melt equal parts oil and butter 3/4 deep in skillet over moderate heat.

'2) Put flour, seasoned with remaining ingredients, into brown paper bag. 3) Rinse chicken parts and place in bag.

'Then you tightly close top of bag (watch your nails) and shake 10 times.

'Hand bag to Cook, go dress for dinner. While you dress, have Cook preheat oven to 350 degrees and brown chicken slowly in skillet. When evenly browned, have Cook place chicken in dish in oven. Have Cook prepare rest of meal while you touch up your makeup.

'In about half an hour, voila! Dinner is served! You must be exhausted.' 

At the time, the recipe was slammed by none other than The Anti-Defamation League, whose current CEO went on The View on Tuesday to tell Whoopi why she'd been so offensive earlier this week, before she was suspended.

They called the recipe 'insulting' and 'anti-Semitic'.


'It’s a lousy recipe with insensitive and anti-Semitic ingredients. Whoopi should know better.

'She needs some sensitivity training, unfortunately. The good people who published it need some sensitivity training too,' Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the ADL at the time, said. 

In response to the outrage, Whoopi's agent at the time - Brad Cafarelli - offered a quick explanation: she is Jewish.

'Maybe (the critics) are not aware that Whoopi is Jewish, so she is certainly not anti-Semitic,' he said.

It was one of many ambiguous statements about her faith.

She has also released a range of holiday sweaters in the past, including one that featured an Octopus on the front holding a Menorah. 

Critics are now demanding that Goldberg be fired from the show.

They pointed to other talk show hosts and TV personalities like Sharon Osborne and Roseanne Barr who were fired over making controversial remarks.

Her other co-hosts (pictured) are reportedly 'furious' about her two-week suspension and Ava Navarro (far right) saying 'this was an incredibly unfortunate incident and Whoopi is a lifelong ally to the Jewish community'

Her other co-hosts (pictured) are reportedly 'furious' about her two-week suspension and Ava Navarro (far right) saying 'this was an incredibly unfortunate incident and Whoopi is a lifelong ally to the Jewish community'

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TV industry insiders say it is about time Whoopi is held accountable what they described as a 'clear pattern of anti-Semitism.'

'This is a clear pattern of anti-Semitism, it wasn’t a one-off.

'Hard to see how ABC News tolerates this and claims they are changing their wretched culture with a straight face.

'Just when you thought Whoopi should send Jeff Zucker a fruit basket, another ABC grenade hits,' one TV veteran told DailyMail.com.

Noa Tishby, an Israeli activist, writer and actress, told DailyMail.com that Whoopi's recipe upholds a deeply-rooted desire to mock Jewish women and their families for being successful.  

'The term Jewish American Princess or JAP was created as a microaggression to bash and suppress Jewish upward mobility. That's what it was used for: to mock Jewish women for their families' success.

'In the world we live in today in which every minority can scream and complain about microaggressions, we need to be extra careful and acknowledge Jewish microaggressions, which exist everywhere.

'JAP is a term that needs to go away and never return. I hope Whoopi has not used it since the 90s and I sure hope that this is a matter of [having] a bad sense of humor, that is outdated, and not taken alongside her recent horrific remarks to indicate her belief system.' 

Tishby added that Whoopi's ambiguity on whether or not she is Jewish is 'confusing'.

'I am very confused by Whoopi Goldberg's position on her Jewishness I'm excited to hear her clear that up.'

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