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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
It was offensive. It was NOT “racist”. “Racist” is a term invented by Communists to stifle free speech.
> “...she did something that she knew would be very offensive to a part of her audience and paid a price”
She didn’t pay any price. She’s richer than 99.8$ of Americans and will live a fine life regardless.
Those that will pay a price are the biased bigots that fired her, Iger and Redstone, both repulsive liberal democrats made wealthy by other repulsive liberal democrats in the liberal club. And their empires are already dying.
“ABC had every right to dump her, and political correctness was not involved.” This is all I needed to read and stopped right there. NRO is still the same bunch of ash holes they always have been.
No, it most certainly is not, and the road ahead does not look any better.
“All the Iranians here in Northern Virginia consider themselves white. Where is the racism?”
She’s not ethnically Iranian/Persian. She was born in Iran of African-American parents.
= "I have no argument supporting my claim, but if I assert it blithely enough, maybe no one will "call" me on it.
Regards,
Nope. National review only writes garbage to reflect badly on trump or trumps supporters. If roseanne barr wasnt a trumper this Timpf woman would never have written this politically correct nonsense. And the vile Never Trump National Review and its loathsome editor, LowLife Lowry would never have printed it.
In any case... I never got the appeal of that show. I watched it once during the fanfare. I saw a supposed “typical” Trump voter with a bunch of progressives. The episode I saw had “conservative” Rosanne lecturing a class of elementary school kids about how wonderful her little transsexual grandson was.
No thanks.
Don’t care.
The Dave Chapelle show used to be a comedy show on TV based solely upon racist humor.
I’ve had it with PC bullsh!t.
I. Don’t. Care.
She is an idiot published only by a Never Trumper rag run by a LowLife dirtbag.
“To determine whether he is in fact the love child of a human woman and an orangatan from the Brooklyn zoo,” Maher said. “Look, I’m not saying your mother was repeatedly ****ing an orangutan back in the 1940’s, I don’t know if that’s true I hope it’s not true.
But given your face, your physique and your intelligence level and of course your hair, the American people deserve some real proof that your mother did not spend most nights in 1945 covering her body in banana oil sneaking into the monkey cage and compulsively humping an orange orangutan.”
From link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3659099/posts
Maher was fired within three hours, right? /s
Seems there's a double standard - Democrats can say whatever they want... be a crude as they want to be and nothing happens but... applause. And us? We walk on eggshells ...
Not defending what Roseanne said, but if you’re fired anyway, why not go down with your head up all the way? No apology. You said it, maybe you ought not have said it, but you don’t take back a single line.
I hate eating my words, so I’m pretty careful... but once you’ve said it, stand by it.
Actually, the problem is the disparate treatment. When lefties make bigoted remarks, they are lauded, not fired.
“white privilege” is prima facie racist, but is touted as a good thing.
True it’s not a free speech issue. It is a hypocrisy issue.
I support Roseanne Barr 100 percent!
It was.
Just barely, coulda fooled me, and I don't really care. Maybe she should have worn a label so we would all know that "important" fact.
So what part of Africa is she from?
she was born in Iran, but she is AA.
Yes, agreed. She absolutely is Anti-American.
‘Just like ABC can let Rosanne go, the NFL can let the kneelers go.’
depends on how the contract was written, particularly with the bargaining agreement in the NFL...
But K Griffon’s beheaded Trump image was, right?
And Bill Maher’s “Trump’s mother had sex with an orangutan” is too?
Yeah.
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