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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoseanne just tweeted another apology and said she will be on Joe Rogan's podcast Friday
Link to tweet
Also, she is retweeting people attacking Keith Olbermann (for calling Trump names) and Joy Behar (same reason) and Bill Maher (ditto) and people claiming that it's OK to compare people to monkeys (and that Roseanne thought Valerie Jarrett was white) among other things.
It's quite a scene.
Edit to add: She just tweeted this as well:
Link to tweet
hey guys, don't defend me, it's sweet of you 2 try, but...losing my show is 0 compared 2 being labelled a racist over one tweet-that I regret even more.
leftstreet
(36,107 posts)No, it was a vile racist tweet
"stupid" is what a guilty person says who isn't sorry - just feeling "stupid" they exposed themselves
Rorey
(8,445 posts)She deserves the label, and quite a few more labels.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)Is that the excuse she's going to give for ALL of the horrible things she has said through the years?
She's only sorry because this time she has to finally pay a price. I hope everyone who lost their jobs sues her into poverty.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)SO unfair of e'erbody!
logosoco
(3,208 posts)WE ARE ALL APES! Calling someone an ape shows much ignorance of human origins. I would like to see us take this in that direction. Where we need to learn the science about how we all came from the same place. The more we know this, the more we understand we are all the same and that insulting someone for their looks shows ignorance.
Maybe I am naive for thinking that could change people. But that is the road I would like to be on. Roseanne and trump and all the folks who want to insult others for looking different are uneducated and ignorant. Maybe the more we educate people about origins and evolution they will see how stupid dividing people into races is.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)This has nothing to do with the inherent value of apes. The point has always been to otherwise black people. By comparing us to a not-quite-evolved-into-human creature, they are making a distinct point.
Theres a reason that racists like Roseanne compare black people to primates, not gazelles or birds.
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)I don't mean no good apology, or one that does any good, or... I mean there are some steps that just go off a cliff.
yardwork
(61,599 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)and go back under that slimy rock you slimed you're way out from under, you're disgusting!
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)That raises 2 other very important questions for me:
1. Why should she be taken seriously when she speaks at all, EVER, if she will admit she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about...
2. How the fuck is a person stupid enough NOT to know these kinds of things (and what can we do about our level of Civic Education in this country).
I'll call bullshit. She's trying to justify the unjustifiable BECAUSE THIS TIME THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES. Bout time and fuck her.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)in public.
When I was living in Vegas a local TV weatherman noted on air that it was Martin Luther Coon Day. He was promptly fired.
The difference between him and Roseanne is that she wrote out her racist comment. She had plenty of time to think about it before she posted it for the world to see.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)is THE worst thing to racists.
That wasn't always the case; they used to wear that label with pride, pre-Obama.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Never sticks.