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ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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See ya. Her talent agency dropped her, too. "ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after star's racist Twitter rant" ABC canceled its hit sitcom "Roseanne" on Tuesday after the show's biggest star, Roseanne Barr, went on a racist Twitter rant. "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement. Disney CEO Bob Iger added on Twitter that "There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing." http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/29/media/roseanne-twitter-chelsea-clinton/index.html
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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Good for her, she spoke what she felt....Freedom of Speech...and shes still rich
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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What she said was comedy and it was kind of funny. I didn't find it funny at all. It was plain mean.
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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It's funny. I could list, off the top of my head, dozens of jokes about Irish people on American network TV that are as vitriolic as what Roseanne said, but nobody gives a shit because Irish people are white, and they laugh off what is, basically, racism.
I know it's different for blacks but Irish people were historically treated like shit, too, until the 60's, and even then, the bigotry continued under Kennedy's presidency.
On the one hand I think black people should relax a little; after all slavery and segregation ended a long time ago. On the other, I think what Roseanne said was hideous but it's not really much worse than some of the stuff you see said about Irish people ; so what, is there a hierarchy of racism?
Turn on Fox News and any given day there'll be a bigoted remark about Irish (Kilmeade, Shepard Smith) but life will go on.
I also recall Kilmeade making bigoted remarks about Italians, too, but Joe Colombo isn't around anymore, so what can you do.
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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The lady she was speakaing about is wierd looking. Rosanne calling anyone weird looking is a joke unto itself. Roseanne looks like a cross between Adolf Hitler and Grimace. This reminds me of the body shaming comments levelled towards Hillary Clinton and Obama donor, Harvey Weinstein. I love the hypocrisy. It's okay to call some people ugly, but God forbid they are black and an Obama supporter, in which case their "ugliness" will be appropriated for virtue signalling purposes by white knights.
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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You do realize that ALL of Stephen King's books are about the Trump presidency, don't you? His most recent was criticised in the press for tackily, and clumsily, alluding to the Trump regime, if that's what you mean.
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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It's funny. I could list, off the top of my head, dozens of jokes about Irish people on American network TV that are as vitriolic as what Roseanne said, but nobody gives a shit because Irish people are white, and they laugh off what is, basically, racism.
I know it's different for blacks but Irish people were historically treated like shit, too, until the 60's, and even then, the bigotry continued under Kennedy's presidency.
On the one hand I think black people should relax a little; after all slavery and segregation ended a long time ago. On the other, I think what Roseanne said was hideous but it's not really much worse than some of the stuff you see said about Irish people ; so what, is there a hierarchy of racism?
Turn on Fox News and any given day there'll be a bigoted remark about Irish (Kilmeade, Shepard Smith) but life will go on.
I also recall Kilmeade making bigoted remarks about Italians, too, but Joe Colombo isn't around anymore, so what can you do. Moe I'm not sure what history books you're reading but by the 1960's the Irish had completely taken over most police forces on the East coast, created extremely powerful political machines, some that exist to this day. Please tell me how they were being systematically oppressed in the 1960's. No offense, but the comparison you're trying to make is not even close man.
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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None taken. I was more referring to the turn of the century, but it's an oversight on my part if my post made it seem like I was drawing parallels between the Irish American experience in the 60's and the African American one.
Still, the fact that a Catholic and someone of Irish heritage was President was pretty unthinkable back then and a lot of people weren't happy about it.
It was probably the first climbing the ladder presidency, and last, until Obama got in. Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the U.S, was the son of Irish immigrants. There were several more American presidents of Irish descent before Kennedy so it wasn't as unthinkable as you may want to believe. The Irish experienced some discrimination for a short while in the United States but trying to compare it to the history of Black people in America is a gross minimalization of the systematic racism that this country was built around, and the lasting effects that still exist today. It's really not in the same ballpark no matter which way you slice it.
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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Slavery ended in 1865 and Jim Crow laws ended in 1965. In many ways Blacks now have more rights than whites. There certainly is racial discrimination against whites when it comes to the media. Blacks seem to say whatever they want with impunity. There is such a double standard.
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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Slavery ended in 1865 and Jim Crow laws ended in 1965. In many ways Blacks now have more rights than whites. There certainly is racial discrimination against whites when it comes to the media. Blacks seem to say whatever they want with impunity. There is such a double standard. You wouldn't understand it because your not.... Black.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spend the night with a mosquito. - African Proverb
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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Blackfamily You have no idea what it is to be white. You have it easy. I wish i had all the preferential treatment blacks get on a daily basis. Right_Pride You have no idea how ironic and hypocritical your statement. The treatment I received isn't no red carpet nor special. When your culture been ridicule ( to put it lightly) ever since the formation of this country and not officially recognize as citizens then gain citizenship after being in a country over 80+ years then being treated as 2nd class. So on and so forth as they say. Again x3 You wouldn't understand in another culture shoes like I don't relate to my parents fleeing Hitler, Mussolini, nor Irish Civil War.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spend the night with a mosquito. - African Proverb
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Re: ABC kicks Roseanne to the curb
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None taken. I was more referring to the turn of the century, but it's an oversight on my part if my post made it seem like I was drawing parallels between the Irish American experience in the 60's and the African American one.
Still, the fact that a Catholic and someone of Irish heritage was President was pretty unthinkable back then and a lot of people weren't happy about it.
It was probably the first climbing the ladder presidency, and last, until Obama got in. Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the U.S, was the son of Irish immigrants. There were several more American presidents of Irish descent before Kennedy so it wasn't as unthinkable as you may want to believe. The Irish experienced some discrimination for a short while in the United States but trying to compare it to the history of Black people in America is a gross minimalization of the systematic racism that this country was built around, and the lasting effects that still exist today. It's really not in the same ballpark no matter which way you slice it. Jackson was Scotch-Irish. That's totally different to Irish in terms of religion, culture, and economic status, although I understand the confusion. The English tried to starve Irish people into extinction 150 years ago. It goes down in the history books as a "famine", but it was basically genocide. Millions of people died and the "lucky" ones were forced to emigrate. The English Prime Minister, Tony Blair, publicly apologised for it a few years ago. Guess who the biggest contributors were to aid for the Irish people back then? Native Americans! People who didn't have a pot to piss in themselves, but then, they know what it's like to have their land stolen from them. Basically what I'm saying is Irish were fucked over too even if the history books downplay it. You know what they say about the victors writing history. Going from being forcibly starved out of their country to making an impact in judiciary, politics, and the police in less than fifty years is an example to any ethnicity.
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