The White House is calling out a popular Fox News host for his commentary on the Holocaust this week.
During a Monday episode of “The Five,” the panel discussed Florida’s new and controversial standards for teaching Black history, criticizing the new curriculum for directing teachers to include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
A panel member compared the curriculum’s teachings to the Holocaust, asking if the standard applies to Jews who were captured and tortured as host Greg Gutfeld referenced the book “Man’s Search for Meaning” by psychologist and Holocaust survivor, Viktor Frankl.
“Frankl talks about how you had to survive in a concentration camp by having skills. You had to be useful,” Gutfeld said on the show Monday. “Utility. Utility kept you alive.”
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Monday on Fox News, Greg Gutfeld made a horrific statement about the Holocaust. The Auschwitz Memorial, and later the White House issued a statement condemning Gutfeld's remark. Media outlets asked Fox for a statement. The network & Gutfeld had no response. I provide receipts. pic.twitter.com/H2cOutXERW
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) July 26, 2023
Of course, the White House responded quickly to Gutfeld’s comment: “What Fox News allowed to be said on their air yesterday — and has so far failed to condemn — is an obscenity,” spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement to The Hill. “In defending a horrid, dangerous, extreme lie that insults the memory of the millions of Americans who suffered from the evil of enslavement, a Fox News host told another horrid, dangerous and extreme lie that insults the memory of the millions of people who suffered from the evils of the Holocaust.”
Media outlets including CNN, The Independent, and The Associated Press reacted in the same manner, automatically condemning Gutfeld to refer to “useful” Jews being the only ones worth surviving.
This is not the first time critics of the book have agreed that being resourceful and having useful skill under your belt grants a person more value. Multiple reviews have been shared about Frankl’s book, focusing on fighting through struggle and adversity, and the value of being resourceful.
“Poverty is not about a lack of resources, it is about a lack of dreams,” writes one review from a business entrepreneur.
Another website shares some takeaways of the book, discussing “the power of purpose.”
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