Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes for Using Romani Slur on ‘The View’
Posted 10 days ago
From WWW.HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM
Whoopi Goldberg is apologizing once again for language she used on The View.
The moderator issued the apology in a video shared on The View’s Twitter account after she discussed Donald Trump’s loss of the 2020 presidential election on the air Wednesday, mentioning, “people who still believe that he got, you know, gypped somehow in the election.”
https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1636045460077965313
The word used is considered derogatory toward people of Romani heritage.
“You know, when you’re a certain age, you use words that you know from when you’re a kid or you remember saying, and that’s what I did today, and I shouldn’t have. I should have thought about it a little longer before I said it, but I didn’t, and I should have said ‘cheated,’ and I used another word, and I’m really, really sorry,” Goldberg said in her video apology.... (Read more)
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https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1636045460077965313
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