'Well, Actually ...': Greg Gutfield on the Absurd Notion the Holocaust Might Have Been Good for Jews

By Dustin Rowles | Politics | July 25, 2023 |

By Dustin Rowles | Politics | July 25, 2023 |

Back in May, I wrote about Ty Seidule’s Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, a book that debunks the “Lost Cause” myth ingrained in our minds by public schools in the South from an early age. We were taught that there were “good” slaveowners. We were indoctrinated to believe that the Civil War was not about slavery but about states’ rights. We were told that Black people were so appreciative of the jobs and homes provided by white people that many slaves fought on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

None of this is accurate, and yet, in Florida under DeSantis, public school teachers are directed in 2023 to teach that slavery may have benefited Black people. No, really. And DeSantis is probably pushing that narrative because it’s what he was taught (and also because he’s a racist idiot).

This is awful. Do you know what else is abhorrent? Minimizing the Holocaust by suggesting that some Jews escaped death because they were useful to the Nazis. That’s a point that Greg Gutfield decided to make…to a Jewish woman…during a debate about whether it’s acceptable to suggest that Black people benefited from slavery (it is not).

When presented with the absurdity of suggesting that Jews might have benefited from the Holocaust, Greg Gutfield “well, actually’d” her. And yes, he casually referred to Viktor Frankl as ‘Vic.’

Everyone else at Fox fine with Gutfeld suggesting Jews sent to concentration camps could survive “by being useful?” How can any of his fellow panelists show up tomorrow to sit there next to him? https://t.co/iMmBa7MPwI

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 24, 2023