‘Star Trek: Picard’ Actress Whoopi Goldberg Points To Arizona Abortion Ruling As Proof That Republicans “Want To Bring Back Slavery”
Josh Berger
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In what appears to be her latest attempt to remain relevant, Star Trek: Picard actress and The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg has made the unfounded claim that Republicans want to bring back slavery.
The asinine comment was made during a recent episode of ABC’s The View, wherein, while speaking to the recent decision by the Arizona Supreme Court to honor an 1864 state law which near-completely bans the practice of abortion, the Star Trek: Picard actress declared, “Take a look at the things that [Republicans] are rolling back. Remember I said, ages ago, in their minds they want to bring slavery back.”
“They’re okay with it,” Goldberg baselessly claimed. “Because, you see, things change, and one of the good things about the Supreme Court is you can fight to make sure you make stuff better. You don’t generally fight to make stuff worse. Or to roll back.”
She went on, “And to me, if you’re okay with rolling that back, when things were not even a state, when we had no say… so, how is that going to roll? How is that going to roll? What’s the next thing?”
“Because, you know, with all of this comes birth control,” the actress further claimed. “With all of this comes everything that you need as a woman to have had put in place to make sure that we were doing better than we were before.”
Far from the first time the first time the far-Left actress has made baseless accusations on The View, Goldberg was also making headlines in March of this year, when she proposed the Biden administration used its presidential powers to “throw every Republican in jail.”
“It’s not a good thing, what this means is he can do anything,” Goldberg would add, suggesting, “Biden, could throw (Trump) in jail, this is a slippery slope if they give him this immunity,” as she weighed in on the Supreme Court’s decision to only allow oral arguments in former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial later this month.
Time and time again, Goldberg has displayed a fairly biased stance on racial issues, often spewing one-sided opinions about whatever narrative she’s trying to push. In February of 2022, the Star Trek: The Next Generations actress got herself suspended from The View over a series of tasteless comments about the Holocaust.
“If you are going to do this then let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it’s not about race,” said the far-Left actress while discussing the removal of the graphic novel Maus from a Tennessee school district’s curriculum. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.”
The View co-host Ana Navarro interjected, pointing out, “But it’s about white supremacy. That’s what it’s about. It’s about going after Jews and Gypsies,” to which Goldberg responded, “But these are two groups of white people!”
Goldberg attempted to elaborate, “You’re missing the point. 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 because black, white, Jews, Italians, everybody eats each other.”
In July of that same year, Goldberg would go on to baselessly accuse label Turning Point USA as a “neo-Nazi” group, following the conservative organization’s Student Action Summit event that took place in Tampa, Florida.
“Neo-Nazis were out there in the front of the conference with antisemitic slurs and, you know, the Nazi swastika and a picture of a so-called Jewish person with exaggerated features, just like Goebbels did during the Third Reich,” she baselessly accused. “It’s the same thing, right out of that same playbook.”
Interestingly, Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson, and there are several instances in which the actress has made claims regarding her alleged Jewish heritage. The Jewish Chronicle’s Jonathan Sacerdoti collected information regarding Goldberg’s comments over the years, pointing out some of the discrepancies in her purported heritage.
Sacerdoti notes that The View co-host once claimed, “Goldberg is my name—it’s part of my family, part of my heritage” she once explained, “just like being black… I just know I am Jewish.”
He also drew attention to a 1997 interview with Barbara Walters in which she further alleged, “Jewish, Catholic, got Chinese people and white people in my family. I’m a mutt basically. I’m the best of all – of all the things that go into making humans,” also pointing out that she once claimed to be “a quarter Mexican.”
It appears Goldberg’s dubious claims about her alleged heritage share more than a few similarities to her unfounded, uneducated comments accusing Republicans of wanting to bring back slavery.
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