Don't be daft. The problem is that the Nazis were very explicit about Jews being an inferior race, and Whoopi said that the Holocaust "isn't about race".

It's an embarrassing example of the typical myopic American self-interest, where my definitions and my concerns right now trump any reasonable parallels or historical usages. (Hilariously (or depressingly?) she doubled down and said the Nazis lied about it being about race!)

And it has nothing to do with "inhumanity" not being bad enough. The problem is that it suggests that Jews were not being systematically targeted because there are lots of people to be inhumane to. But they key feature of the Holocaust is that Jews specifically were targeted. The "race" aspect is what really nails that point--if you're going to drop the race thing, you have to refer to it as an ethnic cleansing or something like that, or else you are at least implicitly denying the nature of what happened.

And anyway, even if Jews declare that Jews are not a race, it's still about race because the perpetrators thought it was.

So the whole premise of your article is faulty. It's so badly wrong that we can't tell in the least whether there is, as you claim, a "Holocaust Industry", because in this case there's an obvious distortion that minimizes the gravity and nature of what happened. And it's entirely reasonable that everyone who cares about history (including, for instance, people of the group most directly affected by it) should be upset.

We should be just as upset if people say that the genocide in Rwanda "isn't about race" (without either clarifying that it was about ethnicity and we are declaring Hutus and Tutsis as “different ethnicities, not different races”, or giving a really shockingly good argument that it was entirely about class and nobody actually cared about ethnicity--good luck with that!) but rather about "black people fighting black people" and "man's inhumanity to man". Racial genocide deserves to be called out as such, not minimized. It's a particularly horrific manifestation of our tribalistic tendencies, and deserves explicit attention.