4 thoughts on “Maybe Culpa: Adventures In Outrage Email

  1. A weird angle to the recent Whoopi Goldberg kerfuffle that I haven’t seen discussed elsewhere is that she is, for lack of a better word, trans-Semitic. She was born Caryn Johnson. She was never married to a Goldberg. She just decided to change her name to Goldberg.

    She’s not a convert and doesn’t practice; she just claims to be ethnically Jewish, although neither genealogical investigation nor DNA testing has turned up any evidence of Jewish ancestry.

    I’m not suggesting anything sinister here. I’m not sure what to make of it.Report

      1. I just meant I don’t have any strong opinion on the topic. I just brought it up because it’s a delightfully weird bit of trivia that I came across while wondering why she has a Jewish surname.Report

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