American actress Whoopi Goldberg recently said that the Holocaust "was not about race." Why? Because it involved "two white groups of people." She went on to explain that it cannot be racism unless black people are involved. Unsurprisingly, criticism against Goldberg kept pouring in from Jewish groups in Israel and worldwide.
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I myself was less outraged. Goldberg's remarks are just the latest of the progressive craziness that has taken over the world, beginning with Kimberle Crenshaw's intersectional theory.
In short, whether your opinion is valid depends solely on what minority group you are affiliated with. The more minority groups you belong to, the more right you are, which essentially means that if you are a white, heterosexual male, your opinion is irrelevant.
Whoever followed the development of the progressive cult could tell that it would eventually get to Holocaust distortion. In a galaxy far far away, where Goldberg's consciousness lives, the Nazis and the Jews are both "whites," and therefore rank in the same category. The lowest one on the list.
But what amused me the most in the Goldberg affair is the shock expressed by some Israelis, while Holocaust distortion is alive and kicking under our very worn roof. What can we expect of a Hollywood actress if Yair Lapid, the foreign minister of the Jewish state, minimized the concept of antisemitism, saying it was part of a "broader family of hate"? Or worse yet, if Yair Golan, the former chief of staff, said on Holocaust Memorial Day that there were signs of Nazi-like behavior in Israeli society? Or when both toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum engaging in a progressive narrative and talking about the supposed occupation of Palestinian territories.
Let us remember that with every Holocaust denial and destortion, the sensitivity decreases. Goldberg's remarks caused a stir, but the next one might not, eventually leading to its normalization. We can only hope that Lapid and Golan and other celebrated thinkers retire before it is too late.
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