Whoopi Goldberg's sanctimonious Twitter exit ends with hilarious mockery: 'All speech is not free speech'



Whoopi Goldberg announced Monday that she was officially leaving Twitter because Elon Musk now controls the platform.

What did Goldberg say?

Speaking on "The View," Goldberg said she decided to delete her Twitter account because of how "messy" the platform has become under Musk's control.

"I’m getting off today because I just feel like, you know, it’s so messy, and I’m tired of now having had certain kinds of attitudes blocked, and now they're back on," Goldberg said.

"I’m gonna get out, and if it settles down enough and I feel more comfortable, maybe I’ll come back," she added. "But as of tonight, I’m done with Twitter."

\u201c.@WhoopiGoldberg says on #TheView that "as of tonight," she's "done with Twitter."\n\n"I'm going to get out, and if it settles down and I feel more comfortable, maybe I'll come back." https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA\u201d
— The View (@The View) 1667838668

Later, Goldberg endorsed the idea that "some speech" is not "OK free speech," suggesting that Twitter or the government has an obligation to regulate the content on Twitter. In the end, though, she reiterated her departure from the platform.

"All speech is not free speech. Some speech is not OK free speech," Goldberg said. "You know what? This is our problem, but it ain't my problem today, because I'm out!"

What was the response?

The response to her decision reminds one of the adage: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Indeed, people noted that Goldberg's presence will not be missed because they didn't even know she had an account. Others celebrated Goldberg's decision.

  • "Thank you, @WhoopiGoldberg," former U.S. ambassador Richard Grenell said.
  • "[P]eople were only on twitter to follow the gentle musings of whoopiits all over now," journalist Tim Pool mocked.
  • "Whoopi Goldberg announced she has left Twitter because of Elon Musk. I just want to thank Elon for doing such a good job at running off these crazy entitled liberals," comedian Terrance Williams reacted.
  • "Whoopi Goldberg was on Twitter?" another person reacted.
  • "I have never seen a Tweet by Whoopi Goldberg. I honestly didn't know she had an account here," another person said.
  • "Didn’t she also say that she was going to be moving to Canada if Trump was elected president? I’m still waiting for that one," one person pointed out.

Goldberg actually made good on her promise, and her account, with more than 1.6 million followers, has since been deactivated.

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88-year-old Holocaust survivor challenges 'The View' after Whoopi Goldberg's debacle over race and the Holocaust



An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor is calling on "The View" to have a broad discussion about the Holocaust after co-host Whoopi Goldberg insisted that the horrific atrocity was "not about race."

What's the background on this?

During Monday's broadcast of the hit ABC show, Goldberg said that the Holocaust wasn't about race but about "man's inhumanity to man" and that it took place between "two white groups of people."

"No," she insisted. "It's not about race. ... The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let's talk about it for what it is. It's how people treat each other. It's a problem. It doesn't matter if you're black or white, 'cause black, white, Jews ... everybody eats each other."

Goldberg faced mountains of criticism following the remarks, for which she eventually apologized.

"On today's show, I said the Holocaust 'is not about race, but about man's inhumanity to man,' I should have said it is about both," she wrote on Twitter. "As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, 'The Holocaust was about the Nazi's systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.' I stand corrected."

"The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver [sic]. I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused," she added.

She later appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," however, in a segment that was filmed prior to her apology, and appeared to double down on her comments.

"It upset a lot of people, which was never, ever, ever, ever my intention," Goldberg said, and added, "I feel, being black, when we talk about race, it's a very different thing to me. So I said that I felt that the Holocaust wasn't about race. And people got very, very, very angry and still are angry. I mean, I'm getting ... mail from folks and very real anger. 'Cause people feel very differently. But I thought it was a salient discussion because as a black person I think of race as being something that I can see. So I see you, and I know what race you are."

She added that she now understands.

"I felt differently. I respect everything everyone is saying to me. ... I don't wanna fake apologize. ... I was ... very upset that people ... misunderstood what I was saying," she continued. "And so because of it, they're saying that I'm anti-Semitic, and that I'm denying the Holocaust, and all these other things which would ... never occur to me ... I thought we were having a discussion about race, which everyone I think is having."

Goldberg added that she was simply saying that you couldn't use the Holocaust as an example of racism.

"When you talk about being a racist, I was saying you can't call [the Holocaust] racism. This was evil," she insisted. "This wasn't based on the skin. You couldn't tell who was Jewish. [The Nazis] had to delve deeply to figure it out."

She added that she's also learned her lesson and doesn't want to talk about it any more.

"I said this wasn't racial. This was about white on white. And everybody said, 'No, no, no, it was racial,' and so that's what this all came from," she complained. "So once again: Don't write me any more, I know how you feel, OK? I already know. I get it. And I'm going to take your word for it and never bring it up again."

What are the details?

Lucy Lipiner, the 88-year-old author of "Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust," took Goldberg to task over the remarks and expressed the desire to speak her mind on "The View" for the world to hear.

Lipiner's story is famous: After having to flee from Poland with her family when she was just 6 years old, she lost all of her loved ones and ended up in Siberia and Tajikistan before eventually making it to America.

She took to Twitter following Goldberg's remarks, where she wrote, "Hi @TheView, I am a Holocaust survivor in NYC. I might be 88-years-old but I have the energy to come on your show and talk to @WhoopiGoldberg and all the girls about the Holocaust."

"I think we can have a meaningful conversation together and heal wounds," she concluded. "DM me!"

Hi @TheView, \n\nI am a Holocaust survivor in NYC. I might be 88-years-old but I have the energy to come on your show and talk to @WhoopiGoldberg and all the girls about the Holocaust. \n\nI think we can have a meaningful conversation together and heal wounds. DM me!\n\nLove, \nLucypic.twitter.com/B7p9yFYQ3J
— Lucy Lipiner (@Lucy Lipiner) 1643676977

Triple-vaxxed, home-bound Whoopi Goldberg caught COVID, tells 'View' co-hosts 'it was a shock' — then claims it's what America will be facing 'unless everybody gets vaccinated'



So, are we calling fully vaxxed and boosted people who get COVID-19 "breakthrough cases" anymore or not?

With the rise and surge of the Omicron variant, report after report has shown that vaccinated folks can still get COVID — a fact that is surprising many, both on social media and in Big Media, despite the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky finally admitted last summer that vaccinated people can catch and transmit the coronavirus.

Walensky's admission came as quite a shock for a lot of folks, including, probably, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who just a few months earlier had been touting the COVID vaccines for allegedly doing what has been mankind's longstanding understanding of what vaccines do: Preventing recipients from getting bugs.

But now, the fully vaxxed and boosted are learning the hard way that they can still get the COVID bug despite doing the responsible thing that they've repeatedly lectured the vaccine-hesitant members of the population to do.

The latest big name to enter the realm of the vaxxed-yet-shocked-to-be-COVID-positive is "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg.

On Tuesday's episode of "The View," Goldberg, donning a sweatshirt emblazoned with "OVER IT," explained that she had left the show a couple weeks before the Christmas break because she had been around someone who had tested positive.

Then, shortly before returning to the show Monday, as scheduled, she underwent required testing, and her results came back positive.

"I was all excited — and you know, they have to test us — and so they sent people to test me, and they tested me, and it was like, 'Oh no, you’re not coming back. We’re not sending anybody to your house. You have corona,'" she recalled Tuesday. "And it was like, ‘Wait, what?'"

"It was a shock, 'cause, you know, I'm triple-vaxxed. I haven't been anywhere. I haven't done anything," Goldberg added. "But that’s the thing about the Omicron, you just don’t know where it is. You don’t know where it is, who’s got it, who’s passing it. It’s one of those things where you think, ‘I’ve done everything I was supposed to do.'"

Then she admitted that the vaccine "doesn't stop Omicron."

Which she followed with an admonition to get vaccinated because the "variant gets stronger and does different stuff to you. So, you know, unless everybody gets vaccinated, this is what we’re going to be facing for the next, you know, little while."

CHECKING IN WITH WHOOPI After testing positive for a COVID-19 breakthrough case over the holidays, our @WhoopiGoldberg joins us live from home to tell us how she's doing and shares that she plans to return to #TheView on Monday! http://abcn.ws/2RiH3wd\u00a0pic.twitter.com/I0wdGt9Jyd
— The View (@The View) 1641401092