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Anyone who is somewhat familiar with comedian Rosanne Barr, knows she’s extremely outspoken, is a fervent Trump supporter, and is a believer in all sorts of right wing conspiracy series. This morning however she went on a Twitter rampage that (and I can’t believe I’m saying this), outdoes Trump’s most offensive tweets. I’m not going to repeat any of them because they’re vile and make me sick to my stomach, but if you haven’t heard about them and want to see them, just Google her. As I was writing this post, the news just broke that the Disney-owned ABC has canceled the second season of the successful Rosanne reboot. To say I’m overjoyed is an understatement. Racism in the U.S. is running rampant and the repugnant individuals who espouse these beliefs have been given carte blanche by the Trump administration to say and do whatever they want. Yes I believe in the First Amendment, but not when it comes to hate speech that serves to encourage violence against minorities. So, while I wish they had never brought back Rosanne to begin with, kudos to ABC for sending a quick and decisive message that racism and bigotry won’t be tolerated even by big name stars.
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She’s so genuinely awful. Kudos to ABC for responding this way, I guess, but they shouldn’t have brought it back in the first place. It’s sad when I’m shocked to see someone face actual consequences for behavior like this.
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I’ve never actually cared for her, but I understand why the show resonates with so many viewers. But stars need to be held accountable for their actions and I applaud ABC for responding so quickly.
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She’s always been repulsive, and this just confirms it. Good riddance.
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Repulsive is a perfect description!
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I think so, yes. She lost my respect the time she grabbed her crotch after butchering the national anthem. Buh bye now.
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Ugh! I find it ironic that Trump and his supporters who scream about sports players kneeling during the Anthem, yet had no problem with her doing that. Goodbye and good riddance!
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I’d like to say good riddance to them all…but she’s a good start.
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God yes!🙏🏻
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Fingers crossed. 😃
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I totally agree that her statements were absolutely wrong! But, I will say that I feel bad for the other actors in the show. Many of them haven’t done anything since the original and some of them are kids to whom this was probably a big break. It’s a shame that they’re all out of jobs because of her racist idiocy.
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I do feel badly for them, but for this show to go on, at least with her in it would have been completely unacceptable. I’m so angry about what what’s happening in this country. We need to start taking a stronger stance against this repugnant behavior, because frankly…not enough is being done.
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I agree with that on MANY accounts! So much has to change. 😔
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🤜🏻🤛🏻
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ABC acted quickly, which is admirable. Also, her talent agency also dropped her, continuing the refrain that these ugly, abhorrent comments are unacceptable in any form. These are not jokes, this is the pure definition of “hate speech”
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I only wish given previous appalling statements that she’s made, they had never brought back the show to begin with. Still, this is something.
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Well, that is a valid point. This isn’t out of nowhere, it’s a continuation of provocative, racist statements designed to hide under “free speech”
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Exactly John.
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Can’t say I was particularly surprised by this news, but it was refreshing that the show got cancelled immediately despite its apparent popularity. Kudos to the network for that.
Per the comments above, I am now trying to imagine her singing the National Anthem at some Trump event. I’m sure the crowds would find some reason to love it anyway and explain it all away. :sighs:
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I had forgotten about her “performance” of the Anthem until Tony brought it up. I can hear Trump and his supporters now responding to critics: “Fake news!” “It was a Rosanne impersonator sent by the Democrats!”
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I was only 8 at the time but I very clearly remember a few relatives who I am sure don’t vote Democrat being very angry about it.
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Behavior like this should be beyond politics.🤷🏻♀️
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I haven’t paid a whole lot of attention to her, but my take is she has always been crude. That isn’t really anything new. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with being outspoken or having an opinion. However, it’s possible to express your views without being crude about it. I do have a Twitter account but I’m not on there very much. It seems to be a place for celebrity-types to spout nonsense.
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Crude is one thing, although like you, it’s not my cup of tea. Racist, bigoted personal attacks are a whole different thing though.
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I haven’t read her comments, and I probably won’t. There is enough garbage out there without my reading this too. You’re right about being crude being one thing and racist being another. My point was she has always had a nasty mouth.
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This definitely isn’t the first time she’s spouted racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-Islamic garbage, which was why I was outraged when the Rosanne show was brought back to begin with, and discouraged that it wound up such a hit. But you’re right Michelle. Nothing she says should surprise anyone.
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I haven’t seen the most recent version of the show, but I watched the original occasionally back in the day…That’s been quite a few years ago now. There were some good things about it. The idea of a working-class family dealing with life was interesting, and I did like how her character didn’t put up with any nonsense from anyone. However, the character and the actress both grated on my nerves, so it wasn’t a show I really got into.
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OMG Kim! I had not heard about it so far but I will look into it!
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Given her past actions and comments, what she tweeted shouldn’t be shocking, but they’re still nonetheless sickening Sophie.
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Kim, to be honest, I know nothing about recent events, or her support of Trump
I haven’t seen a thing she has done since the original series of ‘Rosanne’, which was God knows when? 🙂
I will take your word for it, as I always found her uncomfortably offensive, back in the day.
Best wishes, Pete.
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As Michelle said, her humor has always been crude which was why she has never been my cup of tea. She’s went over to hate speech quite awhile ago though, which was why I was not a happy camper when ABC brought the show back. At least they did the right thing in the end.
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I don’t normally comment on these things and had to look into it first, but bloody hell that tweet. Just WTF?!
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Right?! I actually got nauseous.
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I don’t like sit coms at all, neither yours or ours, so haven’t really known about her, I’m glad she didn’t get away with it, unlike that guy you got in charge.
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I’m not a big fan of sitcoms either Fraggle. I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of ones I’ve liked over the years. Because I never cared for Rosanne Barr even before she went crackers and started spouting off racist, bigoted tirades, I didn’t even watch the first Rosanne. I was especially dismayed that Disney-owned ABC thought to reboot it and was so discouraged when it became a hit. I realize the rest of the cast are extremely talented. I especially love John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf. But let’s face it. Rosanne is at the heart of the show and she’s such vile despicable person, I can’t separate her from her fictional persona.
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I’m disappointed that she was ever given the chance to go back on tv. She is absolutely disgusting, and her views of the world were quite well known before the show started again. I’m glad that they axed the show immediately, I think it was only a matter of time before she ran her big mouth!!
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I feel exactly the same way!
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What she said was fucking horrible. She deserves more than being fired. Maybe a good ass beating… just saying.
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I don’t blame you a bit. But I suspect that despite the cancellation of the show and her being dropped by her talent agency, we’ll sadly hear from her again. She’ll be boistered up by alt-right lunatics like Alex Jones who is already begging her to come back on his show. Heck, I can even see her appearing on Fox News as a pundit or eventually getting her own show. Ugh.🤦🏻♀️
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Ugh? Like Tommi Lahren? Just ughhh
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Amen.
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I am always amused when people like Rosanne decide to apply their comedy “schtick” (her’s being disgustingly rude and obnoxious) to the real world public arena. It always makes me chuckle when the walls come down around them and for the life of them they don’t know how all this backfired so badly. LOL!
I honestly do feel sorry for all the people in the background for the show that will lose their jobs over the show being cancelled.
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Her excuse that what she tweeted was a bad joke, is just that…an excuse. She’s been espousing racist, bigoted, homophobic, anti-Islamic rhetoric for years now. She’s a vile hateful woman and I was upset that ABC brought the show back in the first place. It is a shame though about the rest of the cast being taken down with her.
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Racism is disgusting and abhorrent. However, as awful as racism is, I still have to support free speech, no matter how repugnant it is, even if it’s hateful. Now, that doesn’t mean free speech gives the right for one to make death threats to people. That I agree with. However, it does mean that people can hold bigoted views and sadly, much to my chagrin, express them. Error must be allowed in the public sphere so that the truth can be made manifest. Yes, it’s scary seeing all of this hatred and racism in our country, but it’s also encouraging people to speak up more, to say that’s wrong, to defend minorities.
It should also be noted that a private syndicate has the right to cancel a show if they feel it doesn’t measure up to their standards. Hence, Roseanne was canceled because they felt it wasn’t a good fit for their channel. However, I don’t recall her threatening anyone with death in her tweet, so we can’t make what she said illegal. We can be disgusted by it, we can call her out on it, but we can’t send her to jail for it. Nor would it be wise to do so. After all, while I am repulsed by what she said, everyone has said something hateful about someone before, as much as I am pained to admit it.
Furthermore, the making hate speech illegal slope is slippery. As I already stated, if you make death threats to someone that is illegal and rightfully so. But the idea of wanting to outlaw hate speech in general, as noble as it sounds, can easily be good intentions that quickly turn evil. Sometimes when fighting against evil, if we aren’t careful, we can become evil ourselves by becoming extreme in another direction. There are calls to make hate speech illegal. Let’s say we do. Will people outlaw old classic literature because of some dated viewpoints on minorities? Will religious texts like The Holy Bible and Qua’ran be made illegal for inciting some people to commit violence in the name of God? Will the writers of comedies like The Simpsons, The Boondocks, and South Park be criminalized for making unflattering jokes about religion or people in general? Will politicians sue those for libel and defamation for parodying them in comic strips, books, and television? How about Darwin’s Origin of the Species? What if people outlawed books on evolution saying it inspired eugenics? Sound far-fetched? It’s not. As much as we don’t want to admit it, there will be those who will take hate speech laws and level them against someone or their ideas that they don’t like. Again, the desire to outlaw hate speech is a noble intention, but it’s not a realistic one. It can turn evil.
That said, we can still fight against evil. We can still fight against Neo Nazis, calling them out on the hatred they spew. We can still put white supremacists, Asian supremacists, and black supremacists and any other supremacists in their place, calling them out on their bullcrap. We can defend Muslims from Islamaphobia, Jews from anti-Semitism, and Christians and atheists from bigotry by educating people. We can mock Trump and the rest of 45. But we can’t do any of this effectively if we outlaw any part of free speech, including hate speech. Doing so doesn’t address these terrible issues but only allows said issues to fester in a pit with like-minded bigots, feeding off each other.
I know this is an unpopular viewpoint. It’s not the easy choice, but I feel it’s the right choice which calls for facing the hardships of reality.
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I appreciate your honest viewpoint, but I have to somewhat disagree. Some hate speech is dangerous and shouldn’t be protected by the First Amendment. In addition to her abhorrent tweets about Valerie Jarrett and George Soros, Rosanne has also been a pusher of the so-called “Pizzagate.” That’s the conspiracy theory that insisted Hilary Clinton and others were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria. Despite being immediately and widely debunked, the owner, employees, and even bands who played there were harassed. And worst of all, some deranged individual who saw himself as a “hero” fired several shots into the restaurant. It’s a miracle no one was injured or killed.
That said, no I don’t believe anything she’s tweeted over the last couple of days should land her in prison. I also agree that making hate speech in general illegal is going down a slippery slope. However, I absolutely believe that ABC did the right thing in cancelling the show, although I feel badly for everyone else who worked on it. Racism and bigotry are worse now than they have been since the 1960s because Trump and his administration have basically given permission to these people to do and say whatever they want. We need to make it clear that their words and actions are not acceptable and will have consequences.
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She’s an idiot that doesn’t know when to shut her mouth! She tried to blame it on Ambien! The company said racism isn’t a side effect! Lol. I saw about 10 minutes of the new show and it was terrible. I’m so glad it’s off the air now. It should’ve never been on in the first place. I liked her old show because it reminds me of the 90’s but not anymore. The reruns will also be off the air!
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I haven’t heard of this!!! Wow! I’m so glad they cancelled the show though. Even though, racism and any type of bigotry is just disgusting, I am glad ABC made a stand. Great Post, Kim! Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
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Same here Dani!
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I never knew much about her before, I was hopeful because of the show Roseanne the original, tackled some harder topics that she was more open minded. But the more I am learning now, it gives me a pit in my stomach to read what she has been spewing online.
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She’s definitely gone down the rabbit hole.
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Good to see ABC took swift action. There’s no room in the world for racism.
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Absolutely Vinnie.
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Prejudice in any form is disgusting.
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We are in complete agreement.
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Rosane is by no mean a conservative. She does not represent conservative values and is a full blown looney character. Unfortunately for us conservatives, she was an actress outspoken for Trump and Trump supporters jumped at the opportunity to stand behind a celebrity who was outspoken for the President in a time where 99.9% of all celebrities bash Trump with every breath. What she said was wrong and disgusting, but labeling her a conservative just isn’t accurate. See her past whackadoodle tweets and statements to prove that.
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You’ll notice that I never referred to Rosanne as a conservative. That said, because she is such an outspoken advocate for Mr. Trump (who I also don’t believe is a conservative), she has been embraced by not only his supporters but many Republicans as well. In my humble opinion the Republican Party has quite literally made a deal with the devil in their support of Trump and his policies.
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Wow! Thanks for sharing. I had no idea. Still catching up. I
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See. This is what happens when you go on vacation!🤷🏻♀️
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I didn’t watch the original much but had been giving the new one a chance.
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I have to admit I was never a fan of hers so I didn’t watch either one. I’m glad they’re trying to figure out if they can bring the show back in some form though.
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