Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m under the impression Whoopi is an American, and the View is an American show, and most of the discussion is happening in America.
You could make the same argument about showing respect and compassion for black people who, because of the color of their skin, were living under Jim Crow while the Allies were fighting to end what Hitler was doing.
It is possible to think genocide is wrong without having to think every example of genocide is racism.
I’m a socialist. I will always think the ultimate evil is man’s inhumanity to man. It’s why I oppose the concept of race.