Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for using a slur on "The View": "I should've thought about it a little longer"

Whoopi Goldberg has apologized for using a word considered an ethnic

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slur on Wednesday's episode of ABC's "The View." 

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During a conversation on the broadcast discussing former President

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Donald Trump, Goldberg remarked that some of his supporters believe "

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"he got 'gy----d' somehow in the election" — a term for cheating that

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perpetuates a negative stereotype about the Romani people. Goldberg said she was sorry in a video posted after the show.

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"You know, when you're a certain age, you use the words

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that you know from when you were a kid or you remember saying, and that's

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