Whoopi Goldberg
The Implication of Bold Statements
-For the Uncensored!
Part of me saw this happening in real time and I had to take a step back before I wrote anything stupid. Because I have done stupid things too. People are people, and pretending that I’m any better than Whoopi Goldberg is easier said than done. Hell, being funny is an act of treason today. If the world allowed people to act and write and think how they want, things would be different today. Censorious oligarchic tech companies can fling you off their site at any time, if you dare say something offensive. In a time long ago, people could be people. Artists could be artists.
J.D. Salinger prided himself on being a loner. He didn’t want to be disturbed. It made sense the world was loud and noisy. J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, was famous for being unfriendly, because he wanted to be left alone. But people wanted to find him. Now, anyone can be found. People want to be noticed, but in an attention culture, where everyone has an Instagram and Linkedin account, where artists can sell and promote their profiles, the attention economy is always booming.
As Dave Chappelle said in “Killing them Softly” “if Pussy was a stock it would be plummeting,” but that doesn’t stop Instagram stars from charging for an Onlyfans account. So, if being noticed and wanting to reject fame are two completely different types of economy, then everyone wins.
But Whoopi Goldberg, who had retired from comedy decades before after she hosted the View, didn’t have to do anything funny on the show. She gets to be her boring self with no real shocking opinion other than to say and do what corporate media moguls tell her to do. That’s what happens in the business. You sometimes have to say things you don’t mean.
If being private is an immunity from the Social Warrior mobs, then maybe it’s not so bad. Being a writer can even be dangerous as well. I wouldn’t have signed up for this crazy world if I didn’t think I could handle it. But the distractions we face are severe. It’s far more rebellious to not own a cell phone. But today, celebrities, once they say woke nonsense, are becoming a deformed machine upon once cultivating aspects of being an artist.
Whoopi Goldberg, said, on a Colbert interview, that the Holocaust was not about race. While some would excuse that notion of Jewish faith only being one of faith, it’s hard to pretend that serious practicing Orthodox Jews did take offense at Goldberg’s actions. Being suspended for saying this doesn’t excuse the stupidity of the statement. I can whole heartedly agree it’s stupid. Because if being stupid is a commodity, that would make us all culpable, and jailing all of us can’t happen. Only Cancel Culture is a real thing. If you haven’t been kicked off social media, then you’re not living. But woke celebrities often more than not have no sense of inflection in their voice. It’s all deadly serious even when they are joking. The frailty of both the right and the left are its own prison, and living in a prison, whether it’s right or left, is not in my purview[i].
The consequence of Whoopi’s statements is that they aren’t tone deaf. I can get a joke. I can get what people say is often times wrong. I do get the argument against Whoopi and yes, I can agree that it could have been properly worded. You have the right to be offended at what Whoopi Goldberg has said. I’m not telling you whether to like her or not. I’m not going to tell you how to live. It’s not my responsibility to be your mother telling you what to think. I’m not CNN.
And I think a Tool quote comes to mind, “I can say what I want to. Even if I’m not serious.” We’re so far removed from TOOL’s Opitate EP that seems like a saying from Colonial Times to some kids. But humor is a fickle child.
What happened to Whoopi Goldberg? She used to be a funny person, but with hosting television shows becoming less than reputable, and notoriously censorious, it’s hard not to think that Whoopi is overreaching. While I’m sure everyone wants me to be offended and shocked by this, I’m truly not. It’s often woke jokes that have no sense of inflection, thought, or research put into a joke. The science of humor is often unknown and it can’t be quantified in a lab.
But it’s only funny when it’s not happening to you. It’s unquestionable that you have to apologize, and I can understand why idiots like Whoopi Goldberg have their position. Being cancelled is not fun. Saying stupid things like “the holocaust was not based on race” can be seen as a falsehood. It is, to many Jewish people.
But also another issue needs to be brought up. It wasn’t only Jewish people who died in the holocaust. Hitler also tried to conquer Africa, and would Whoopi Goldberg had known the Africans were also attacked, as Lybia, was a stronghold for the Nazi’s, which the allies invaded through. Casablanca, the famous film with Humphry Bogart, is about exactly that.
So, to understand the fallacy behind Whoopi’s statement is also just historically stupid. Is she stupid? Yes, so you shouldn’t be taking advice from Whoopi Goldberg. Her stupidity is beyond reproach, but aren’t we all stupid? I’m stupid, everyone is.
Does this horrendously woke statement, because again, humor is a fickle child, not everyone has to find it funny. Again, it’s easy to be part of a machine and only say the humor that you are allowed to say.
I know Whoopi Goldberg should be smarter than this, but then, comedians do not come with degrees. They aren’t supposed to. But then, if the punchline is that Whoopi Goldberg is stupid, then congratulations, she is. If the will to commit villainy in the name of good taste is subjective, then that’s what this is. Do I defend her comments. No. Because she’s an old irrelevant human waste of garbage that can’t even come up with good jokes. Only what is a good joke?
I wouldn’t ask for Whoopi Goldberg to be cancelled, because that’s not fun. I do not watch the View, so I’m not there target demographic, but being without work is not fun nor should anyone be without purpose or income. My verdict: if you’re looking for offense, you’re probably not looking in the right direction. Tasteless and stupid yes, and being historically ignorant of facts, yes. My idea is this: if you live in a world of censorship, you’re not going to be happy. I say that over and over again. I can sympathize with the decision of the View for giving Whoopi a two week suspension, but is she right in doubling down? Again, I’m not her mother nor do I want to be. Do I agree she is a bad comedian? Yes. Stupid claim, yes. Am I offended that she changed a name to fit her career? I can sympathize with those who are, but I just don’t care enough about her to obsess on her. I want to obsess on Zendaya.[ii]
But overall, censorship is not a two way street. If you censor one, you must censor yourself. If you live for censorship then you’re probably not going to laugh either way. If you will not learn to forgo the past, you will become the past, and you won’t adapt or change.
But if you live your life on TikTok, politically left or right, constantly looking for offense, you’re probably not going to spend the life you have worth living. I do believe in the right for offense, but you gotta have a life at some point.
Create something you care about. If your character was robbed from you, make a new one and kill the old character. Find humor and offense and pick your battles. Go to the gym, eat healthier. I don’t care what you do in life, but I care about you and want you to find yourself.
And as Walt Whitman said, “If I contradict myself, I contradict myself.” As TOOL said on their Opiate album, “I can say what I want to, even if I’m not serious.”
I still believe in Freedom of Speech, and to be offended, is to know I’m alive. And I’m glad to be offended, one way or another. The only thing I haven’t been offended by in my life is getting a blowjob.
[i] Like I said, the left are far more rapaciously offended at everything than the right ever will.
[ii] Let a hot blooded man like myself have his obsessions.
-Louis Bruno is the author of more than 19 books, including, The Michael Project, The Michael Project: Book 2: The Lost Children of Eve, Thy Kingdom Come, The Disintegrating Bloodline (and the original text re-released in 2019), Apocalypse Soldier, The Data Chase, Selection: The First Book of the Life and Death Saga, and Blinking Eyes: The Second Book of the Life and Death Saga, Hierarchy of Dwindling Sheep, The City of Sand, To the Moon and Back, The Villain Lives and The Villain Lives: The Divided Pinpoint, Come Home, Young One. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Phoenix. His books can be found on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Lulu. He can be found on Gab, https://gab.com/thereallouistbruno, Minds https://www.minds.com/lbruno8063/. Instagram @lbrruno8063 and @louisbrunoofficialbook. Our Freedom Book https://www.ourfreedombook.com/thereallouistbruno17. He has written for the Intellectual Conservative and Ephemere. His next series, City of Sand is out now:https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/louis-bruno/city-of-sand/hardcover/product-rke9jz.html?page=1&pageSize=4. Also, if you can’t subscribe so that you can get members only content, please be sure to share the articles, as well. If you do Subscribe, as well so you can get my articles in your inbox every time. Every little bit helps in the war against Big Tech. Thanks for reading.
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