I read the tweet, I don’t see where she called a black person an ape. And I’d be the last person to defend Roseanne Barr because I liked her. There won’t be equality until she can say what she said, the same as the left called President Bush “McChimpy Hitler” or some such, for more than eight years.
I don’t care about that kind of equality. I just recognize that there is a deep historical context to some of the things. I am white and if someone calls me an ape then it is just rude and insulting. Someone not seeing how it is different when a black person (I absolutely hate VJ by the way) is called an ape is missing the historical context.
Beastie Boys didn’t fight for our right to call black people apes and neither should you.
Why wasn’t the Left calling Bush “a mick” racist?