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PinkTiger

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6. I don't get why people don't understand.

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Wed Dec 28, 2022, 06:06 AM

Dec 2022

Whoopi wasn’t being antisemitic. She was simply relaying her (misguided) belief that Jewish people are not racially profiled and discriminated against in the same way that Blacks are. She was wrong, and once she was properly re-educated, stated as such.
So why the WTF?
Am I just not getting it?

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(Jewish Group) Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes After Uproar Over Latest Holocaust Comments [View all] Behind the Aegis Dec 2022 OP

WHAT is her problem Skittles Dec 2022 #1

Seems she is not alone. Behind the Aegis Dec 2022 #2

I don't understand Skittles Dec 2022 #3

While I don't know what's in their heads, Lunabell Dec 2022 #4

It was a very insensitive thing to say nightwing1240 Dec 2022 #5

I don't get why people don't understand. PinkTiger Dec 2022 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author LakeArenal Dec 2022 #8

"Stupid comment while black gets one unlimited negative press, I guess." Behind the Aegis Dec 2022 #10

I apologize. I didn't read the group my rally bad. LakeArenal Dec 2022 #11

Because she "doubled down" on the SAME thing. Behind the Aegis Dec 2022 #9

I work with a Scottish woman who thinks she is discriminated as an immigrant JT45242 Dec 2022 #7