That was my first thought when I heard all this...free speech for thee but not for me...only SPECIAL People have free speech anymore
The thing people are conflating with free speech rights here is the obvious fact that consequences of exercising the right are not equally applied among different views/groups/affiliations of people (i.e. liberals/conservatives).
The right to free speech has not been infringed in Roseanne’s case, it’s the lopsided application of consequence as compared to others on the left that exercise the right in similar or much more vile ways. That liberals tend to feel no pain or are placed in even higher regard after making hateful remarks towards the right of the political spectrum, or whites in general is the real insult here.