Posted on 05/30/2018 9:09:46 AM PDT by reaganaut1
ABC had every right to dump her, and political correctness was not involved. In case you haven’t heard, Roseanne Barr did something really awful and stupid on Tuesday morning.
In a now-deleted tweet, Barr made a racist comment about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, saying that she was like the “Muslim brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby.” A matter of hours later, her hit ABC sitcom was canceled.
There’s no denying that what Barr said was racist, or that she was dumb for having said it. She has since apologized, and has probably also reached the conclusion that it wasn’t worth it. In all honesty, I’ve never understood why people aren’t more careful on social media. I’ve always sarcastically said that the best thing about Twitter is that not only do you not get paid for your tweets, but you can also get fired for them. It really is one of the more idiotic ways to ruin a career, and I can never make sense of it whenever it happens.
But what’s done is done, and there’s no turning back. She was fired, and she deserved to be fired. Her comment was racist and unacceptable, and I would not want someone who had made that kind of comment representing my company, either. It really seems that simple to me, but oddly enough, I’ve actually seen some conservatives defending her — saying that her firing is an example of the rampant political correctness that flies in the face of free speech — and honestly, this is something that I just can’t understand.
First of all, this is in no way a free-speech or First Amendment issue. The First Amendment protects us from facing consequences from the government over our speech, not consequences from our peers or our employers.
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There’s no denying that what Barr said was racist...
How was it racist?
But conservatives need to demand that the media fire all the insane liberals who say worse things about conservatives. And boycott, too.
Sauce for the goose.
I get it Katherine. You may also want to point this out to the snowflakes crying about the NFL policy to stand for the anthem or get fined. That’s not a free speech issue either, as much as the snowflakes love to claim it is.
I’m not feeling all that sorry for Rosanne. She pulled a Kapernick - she did something that she knew would be very offensive to a part of her audience and paid a price. The issue is the hypocrisy. Those on the left say equally offensive and repugnant things every single day in the media and are cheered for it.
My counterpoint.
> “Roseanne’s Firing Is Not a Free-Speech Issue”
Yes it is.
> “Conservatives should not rally around someone who says racist things”
It wasn’t racist.
agreed. But I think the beef conservatives have is that 90% of all talk show hosts are loony leftists who say the most outrageous things and nothing ever happens.
It’s a double standard free speech issue.
How was it racist?
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It wasn’t.
He’s right. Bill Maher was fired three hours after he said that Dondald Trump’s mother must have had sex with an orangutan.
Oh wait! He wasn’t!
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
Her tweet wasn’t racist. She was trying to be funny.
She’ll be back.
She’s protesting using her free speech. Just like the NFL kneelers.
Just like ABC can let Rosanne go, the NFL can let the kneelers go.
But... Valerie Jarrett does bear a striking resemblance to the woman who played in one of the older Planet of the Apes movies...
If she had said Jarrett was the product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Weather Underground it would have been the truth.
Islamobolshevik
I don’t think you could’ve misread the situation any worse.
Exaclty. But trust the never-Trump NR snivellers to try to make the left’s point.
All the Iranians here in Northern Virginia consider themselves white. Where is the racism?
She voiced her support of Trump a while back. Since then everything she says is racist. Thats the drill.
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