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Whoopi Goldberg, a moderator on the daytime talk show “The View” has been suspended by ABC News following her comments on the Holocaust.

The discussion of the Holocaust came up on the talk show while discussing a school district in Tennessee that banned “Maus” a graphic novel used to convey the horrors and far-from-humane practices during the Holocaust. The supposed reason for the ban was for “rough, objectionable language” and a drawing of a nude woman.

Goldberg said she was surprised that it was the nudity and not the Holocaust itself that caused the book to be banned from the eight-grade English language arts curriculum.

Co-host Joy Behar responded that the concerns about the nude drawing were most likely “a canard to throw you off from the fact that they don’t like history that makes White people look bad.”

“Well, this is White people doing it to White people, so y’all gonna fight amongst yourselves,” Goldberg said, referring to the Holocaust.

The conversation then turned to the banning of teaching the nation’s darker side of history, specifically topic relating to race and racism.

“If you’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race,” responded Goldberg. She added that the mass genocide was about “man’s inhumanity to man” that involved “two White groups of people.”

To refer to Jewish people as white due to their skin color has. been a subject of huge debate since Jewish people still face global anti-semitism. During the Nazi Germany era, Jewish people were considered an “inferior race” of people and many negative stereotypes were attributed to Jews due to “an unchanging biologically determined heritage,” according to the US Holocaust Museum.

Shortly after the talk show episode concluded, the segment garnered outrage on the internet with many Jewish leaders and Institutions debunking Goldberg’s statements.

“Racism was central to Nazi ideology,” the US Holocaust Museum wrote in a tweet shortly after Goldberg’s comments began circulating. “Jews were not defined by religion, but by race. Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder.”

Goldberg released a statement late Monday, apologizing for her comments.

“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 of 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,” She added: “The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.”