Have We Forgotten How to Forgive?

Last week, Whoopi Goldberg returned to ABC's The View, following a two-week suspension for wrongly claiming that the Holocaust was not "about race." Given my own coverage of this controversy, it probably won't surprise you that I think The View was wrong to suspend Goldberg in the first place. As I wrote at the time, she made an understandable error for which she publicly apologized. And as I told MSNBC, by suspending her, the show cut short an important conversation about Jews and anti-Semitism, while effectively punishing Goldberg for doing the right thing and owning up to her mistake.