It doesn’t matter what Roseanne thought.
If you are a liberal PC darling, you can say any damn thing you want. And if you are are called on it, you can just say that you have “evolved”. Then all is forgiven.
Example:
Hillary Clinton said in 2000 that she believed marriage was “always between a man and a woman.” But Hillary is a liberal PC darling. So she has evolved. The gays love her.
But if you are not a liberal PC darling, then every last thing you said will be held against you. Even if it was an innocent remark made 50 years ago.
Yeah, like the 9th circuit judge candidate that was pulled for what he wrote as an assignment in college.