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ABC Cancels Roseanne After Racist Tweet
If you’ve ever encountered Roseanne Barr on Twitter, you know she is a bit … off. She regularly shares insane musings, personal attacks, and conspiracy theories that would make Alex Jones think the chemtrails finally got her. Roseanne’s always been this way, regularly attracting attacks from the left, right, and center. (Remember the conservative reaction to her ugly rendition of the National Anthem?) On Tuesday, she stepped in it big time with a tweet so bad that ABC cancelled her hit sit-com reboot hours later.
What did she say this time? Earlier Tuesday morning, in a now-deleted Tweet, Roseanne took aim at former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, identifying her by her initials:
She later claimed it was a joke and apologized, but the internet is forever (as the above screen-cap shows). Racism can’t be deleted as easily as a tweet.
https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1001471669641216005
Roseanne’s co-stars registered their disgust:
I am hurt, embarrassed, and disappointed. The racist and distasteful comments from Roseanne are inexcusable.
— Emma Kenney (@EmmaRoseKenney) May 29, 2018
I will not be returning to @RoseanneOnABC.
— Wanda Sykes (@iamwandasykes) May 29, 2018
And in just a few hours, ABC pulled the plug on their biggest surprise hit.
Many Twitterers on the right claim that Roseanne was victimized by a politically correct mob just because she supports Donald Trump. If they fired her over Tweeting “I’m on the Trump train,” they’d have a point.
Instead, she was canned because she said a black woman was half-ape. Roseanne was fired for being a disgusting racist.
And, as a result of her idiotic idea to document her racism on Twitter, she got her entire cast and staff fired along with her.
For Roseanne’s part, she now says she’s quitting Twitter. Probably should have done that last night.
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I mean, why worry about whether lefties will use this incident as a broad-brush smear against the President’s supporters when alleged conservatives — supposedly on our side — are doing it themselves.
That is the crux of it. I was just enjoying her show.
It really doesn’t matter the politics anymore, I thought we believed in turning the channel.
But I do think OJ did it.
The only people on this site connecting Roseanne’s statement to Trump Supporters are the Trump Supporters defending her.
Well technically speaking, she referred to fictional characters in a science fiction movie that (spoiler alert) belong to a race of intelligent beings that evolved from apes and are portrayed as being every bit as smart and civilized as humans.
Who has been defending her?
Since I didn’t know VJ is black, it’s not a huge leap that Rosanne had no idea either.
Is that a defense?
The alternative is to think that Rosanne decided to make a ridiculously racist tweet, having no illusions that the mob would come after her. Her post tweets back me up, that she was clueless and rude – but not racist
She may or not be racist But having asked for examples of past behavior – and being provided none – I’m going with stupid and rude
Kinda hard to for me to parrot Trump when that’s been my position long before Trump ran for office.
Indeed, conservatives opposed Affirmative Action long before Trump.
I want to go back to this. Why not give her the benefit of the doubt? As mentioned earlier, no one can see into her heart, so she’s not getting punished for being racist. She’s getting punished for making a comment which could be perceived as racist. Some people here and outside Ricochet have claimed she has a history of racism, but I’ve yet to see an example.
If we continue on this path, there’s no hope for us.
The term “white privilege” burst upon the scene fairly recently and is now being taken as a fact; people like Jordan Peterson are immediately called to defend their “privilege” and their opinions are discounted.
How is that not racism? He is literally being treated differently because of his skin color.
Real racism (like the racism of low expectations) is being ignored while the world has a melt down about Roseanne.
And one thing about the meltdown not mentioned often – many on the Left who’ re melting down right now had no concept of there being a Valerie Jarrett until Roseanne made her remark.
So I guess whataboutism is the new “whatever.” Which millions of us who were parents at the time learned from our teenagers back in the Nineties.
Of course us white people who might be victims don’t complain and whine half as much about our situation as the Elite of both Parties whine when a single necessary banking regulation is put into place, or a single necessary environmental protection is upheld. So there’s that.