Should Roseanne Barr's TV program be cancelled?

[Albion]

Seems people say worse things about our president each and every day and they suffer no consequences, so why should Roseanne Barr after apologizing?
M-Bob

Ah, but she made a crack about the de facto President of the USA during the Barack Obama administration. That's different from calling for the murder of the current President (as several people you may have in mind chose to do and got away with it).

 

[Albion]

That doesn't make any difference to the racist content.

What race, exactly, ARE Iranians, then?

Answer: Caucasian

So what is the racial content in a reference to Planet of the Apes? Seriously. I never watched the movie.

 

[brinny]

Yes, it is true. And yes, they called Trump an ape. They called Bush a monkey. They compare Trump to Hitler and it's not even close. He's nowhere near as fascist as the left is, making them hypocrites for saying as such. They cut off Trump's head in effigy and post pictures of it all bloody. The liberals defended Kathy Griffin, but trash Roseanne, which is the height of hypocrisy. You guys are just as dirty and mean-spirited as you claim Trump is.

Indeed.

As a matter of fact, isn't it true that many have said that man is descended from "apes"?

Hmmmmmm...is that "racist"?

 

[Saucy]

What race, exactly, ARE Iranians, then?

Answer: Caucasian

So what is the racial content in a reference to Planet of the Apes? Seriously. I never watched the movie.

She looks like several of the characters in the movie. There was no comparison to an actual ape, which is why I don't believe it was racist. It wasn't a nice tweet, but it wasn't racist.

 

[Jamsie]

Seems people say worse things about our president each and every day and they suffer no consequences, so why should Roseanne Barr after apologizing? M-Bob

Critical rhetoric about presidents is sort of common practice, and to a large degree trump brings it upon himself. So everyone applauds the NFL for it's new policy but ABC doesn't have the "right" to set its own policy? I think the NR sums it up well... Roseanne Barr Planet of the Apes Remark: Firing Justified | National Review

 

[FreeinChrist]

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