Sara Haines, a co-host of Whoopi Goldberg from “The View,” showed support for the long-time talk show host after several fans said they think the length of her suspension is not enough in comparison to what she did.
“This just popped up and warmed my heart,” Haines said. “That’s my Whoops!!!!”
The 44-year-old’s post gained the attention of several of her followers, prompting a debate over the length of Goldberg’s suspension.
Responding to the criticism, Haines added a comment to her own post, writing: “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.”
Some fans in disapproval of Goldberg’s “Holocaust remarks” said the long-time host should get fired, while another Instagram user called for the show to get canceled.
“I cannot believe you’re making excuses for Whoopie Goldberg anybody else would have been fired!!!!” one person commented on Haines’s post. Another person wrote that the whole show should be canceled, claiming it includes “nothing but hate.”
“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. “As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s [sic] systematic annihilation of the Jewish people—who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected.”
“I misspoke,” the host said at the opening of Tuesday’s show, a day later.