ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt on Whoopi, Race and Jewish Identity
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, February 8th. |
| 0:14.6 | Jonathan Greenblatt is here, head of the Anti-Defamation League. He has a new book whose title speaks for itself called It Could |
| 0:21.3 | Happen Here, How America is Tipping from Hate Toward the Unthinkable and How He Can Stop It. |
| 0:28.0 | We'll also get his take on the Whoopi Goldberg comments about race and the Holocaust that got her |
| 0:32.9 | suspended for two weeks from The View on ABC. |
| 0:36.2 | Greenblatt went on the view with Whoopi Goldberg the |
| 0:39.2 | following day for a dialogue on the topic. Jonathan Greenblatt grew up in the greater New York |
| 0:44.6 | area, Trumbull, Connecticut, has been a social entrepreneur starting the bottled water company |
| 0:50.5 | ethos water that gave a portion of the proceeds to water projects in the developing |
| 0:55.3 | world. He served as President Obama's Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic |
| 1:01.3 | Participation and more before heading up the ADL. And Jonathan, thanks for coming on with us. |
| 1:07.6 | Welcome back to WNYC. Brian, thank you for having me on the show. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm a big fan. |
| 1:12.1 | And let's begin on the news. |
| 1:13.6 | Here's a little of what Wopi Goldberg said originally on the view last week. |
| 1:18.3 | It's not about race. |
| 1:20.3 | But it's not about race. |
| 1:22.7 | It's not about race. |
| 1:25.1 | It's not about race. |
| 1:26.1 | What is it about? Because it's about man's inhumanity to man |
| 1:30.6 | that's what it's about but it's about white supremacy well but it's not it's not |
| 1:35.7 | but these are two white groups of people well they have to black but he's |
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