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AlCalavicci
11/06/22 10:44:07 PM
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Got killed off because she said some dumb racist Trumper shit IRL, then they spun off into The Conners which is now in it's 5th season

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pegusus123456
11/06/22 10:45:49 PM
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I'll be honest, I still don't think she meant to be racist, but she handled the situation so fuckin' terribly that I can't blame them for firing her.

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Orochi_
11/06/22 10:46:27 PM
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What did she do or say?

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AgentCoulson
11/06/22 10:46:55 PM
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Wow, fifth season? Didn't think it'd make it that far.

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Zikten
11/06/22 10:48:30 PM
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AgentCoulson posted...
Wow, fifth season? Didn't think it'd make it that far.
Apparently Rosanne was never needed for her own show. Kinda funny
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wanderingshade
11/06/22 10:50:27 PM
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She tweeted that she thought Valerie Jarrett looked like a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes.

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AlCalavicci
11/06/22 10:50:48 PM
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Orochi_ posted...
What did she do or say?

https://variety.com/video/roseanne-canceled-racist-tweets/

ABC canceled Roseanne Tuesday morning after the shows lead, Roseanne Barr, let off a series of racist tweets the night prior. The tweets included a comment referring to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.

Barr apologized to Jarrett on Twitter Tuesday morning and announced she would be leaving the social media platform. However, shortly after the apology, Roseanne consulting producer Wanda Sykes tweeted she would not be returning to the show and ABC president Channing Dungey announced in a statement a condemnation of Barrs tweets as well as news of the networks decision to cancel the show.

The show had previously been renewed for another season, and that revival finished its first season as the number one scripted primetime television show in the 18-49 age range.

wanderingshade posted...
She tweeted that she thought Valerie Jarrett looked like a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes.

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MICHALECOLE
11/06/22 10:51:19 PM
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wanderingshade posted...
She tweeted that she thought Valerie Jarrett looked like a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes.

pegusus123456 posted...
I'll be honest, I still don't think she meant to be racist



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Kim_Seong-a
11/06/22 10:55:42 PM
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Zikten posted...
Apparently Rosanne was never needed for her own show. Kinda funny

Honestly I never liked the Roseanne character that much. Among the adults I preferred Goodman's character and Jackie. But the original show was written as more of an ensemble kind of thing when it came down to it. Its best stories rarely hinged on Roseanne as hard as other sitcoms did with the "main" parent, so I'm not surprised they were able to make it work.

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The_X_Dawg
11/06/22 10:57:29 PM
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Haven't watched since they got rid of her.
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pegusus123456
11/06/22 10:59:01 PM
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MICHALECOLE posted...
Oh, I'm fully aware that I might be taking the L on this, but Valerie Jarret is the most light-skinned black woman I've ever seen. I can fully believe that Roseanne thought she was making a joke about a white woman.

Admittedly, I had either forgotten or never knew the Muslim Brotherhood part of the tweet which does reframe it pretty hard <_<

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wanderingshade
11/06/22 11:04:14 PM
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Yes.

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Ikzai
11/06/22 11:16:14 PM
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did the connors ever adress how the entire series was just roseanne's novel and the "real" story was completely different?

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MICHALECOLE
11/06/22 11:17:16 PM
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Ikzai posted...
did the connors ever adress how the entire series was just roseanne's novel and the "real" story was completely different?
If I recall correctly they basically make a self aware remark in the first scene of the first episode of the reboot
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TentacleDemon
11/06/22 11:23:33 PM
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The_X_Dawg posted...
Haven't watched since they got rid of her.

I was willing to give it a shot. But it just didn't work for me and I dropped it after about half a season.


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Ikzai
11/06/22 11:38:01 PM
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the weirdest thing is i keep getting these google news updates pop up on my phone about things going on in "the connors" despite this topic being the most i've interacted with the brand since the show came out.

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HHH_is_the_game
11/06/22 11:40:43 PM
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I watched an episode of the Conners a couple seasons ago and it was HORRIBLE. Roseanne was an amazing show. I understand why they had to fire her after those comments but they should have ended the whole show.

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Flauros
11/06/22 11:47:55 PM
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wanderingshade posted...
She tweeted that she thought Valerie Jarrett looked like a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes.
That is the straw that broke the camels back? Not her dressing like hitler and baking cookies that were supposed to be jews?

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pojr
11/06/22 11:51:51 PM
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pegusus123456 posted...
but she handled the situation so fuckin' terribly that I can't blame them for firing her.
how did she handle it poorly? seems like apologizing for it is the normal thing to do when you're under heavy fire

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PsychicHippo
11/07/22 12:26:25 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
I'll be honest, I still don't think she meant to be racist, but she handled the situation so fuckin' terribly that I can't blame them for firing her.
I don't think she was racist, either. It was a joke. A dumb joke, and she's certainly crazy in other ways, but nothing that really warranted becoming a political dividing point.

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Questionmarktarius
11/07/22 12:28:52 AM
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The_X_Dawg posted...
Haven't watched since they got rid of her.
Roseanne minus Roseanne is somehow better than Roseanne. John Goodman is way too good for television.
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-Unowninator-
11/07/22 12:36:56 AM
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Flauros posted...

That is the straw that broke the camels back? Not her dressing like hitler and baking cookies that were supposed to be jews?

What the fuck?!

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Questionmarktarius
11/07/22 12:42:07 AM
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-Unowninator- posted...
What the fuck?!
seriously, what the fuck?
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RchHomieQuanChi
11/07/22 12:44:52 AM
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I'll forever remember Roseanne as the show that came on after Fresh Prince on Nick at Nite and made me change the channel

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VampireCoyote
11/07/22 12:51:18 AM
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I still think they should have changed the name of the show to Roseannt

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Flauros
11/07/22 3:41:19 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
seriously, what the fuck?

-Unowninator- posted...
What the fuck?!


Yeah...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/3/AATz36AAD2y5.jpg

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The-Apostle
11/07/22 3:48:06 AM
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The_X_Dawg posted...
Haven't watched since they got rid of her.


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ZangsBeard
11/07/22 3:48:39 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
I still don't think she meant to be racist

And you'd be wrong...

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ZangsBeard
11/07/22 3:53:50 AM
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PsychicHippo posted...
I don't think she was racist, either. It was a joke

Yeah, that doesn't make it not actual racism.

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FatAnimeBooty
11/07/22 3:55:27 AM
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Flauros posted...
Yeah...
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TomClark
11/07/22 4:06:52 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
I'll be honest, I still don't think she meant to be racist

I honestly don't know how you could take what she said as anything other than catastrophically racist.

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indica
11/07/22 5:15:20 AM
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FatAnimeBooty posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/7/AANKsdAADPEJ.jpg
Same reaction I had

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Guns_of_Verdun
11/07/22 5:22:41 AM
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To add to the tweets, her defense was "I was on Ambien and therefore can't be blamed for anything I said"

Which is bonkers

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ZangsBeard
11/07/22 5:23:48 AM
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Guns_of_Verdun posted...
To add to the tweets, her defense was "I was on Ambien and therefore can't be blamed for anything I said"

Which is bonkers

What's bonkers is how many people tried that same defense to their overt racism... "I was on [medication] therefor it wasn't me!"

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indica
11/07/22 5:39:24 AM
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Flauros posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/3/AATz36AAD2y5.jpg
Defense for this?

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ZangsBeard
11/07/22 5:40:20 AM
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indica posted...
Defense for this?

"It was just a joke", "It wasn't that racist", "it wasn't racist!"

You know, just read the topic...

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MabusIncarnate
11/07/22 5:40:34 AM
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Idk how I missed the nazi Roseanne thing but I did..

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indica
11/07/22 5:45:01 AM
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ZangsBeard posted...
"It was just a joke", "It wasn't that racist", "it wasn't racist!"

You know, just read the topic...
Biting off the bloodied head of Jews dressed as Hitler is comedy? I'm all for free speech but just be fucking honest that you're racist as fuck and looking for shock value...

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ZangsBeard
11/07/22 5:50:17 AM
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indica posted...
Biting off the bloodied head of Jews dressed as Hitler is comedy? I'm all for free speech but just be fucking honest that you're racist as fuck and looking for shock value...

I'm not saying it was an actual defense, or reason. I'm just saying that's what people "think" is a defense. It says a lot.

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MabusIncarnate
11/07/22 5:54:04 AM
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Roseanne was kind of in the same class as Howard Stern during a generation where people loved hearing extreme shit on the radio and television. Both said and did a lot of "shock value" stuff that lead to their popularity.

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BaphometFlux
11/07/22 6:49:12 AM
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Plain and simple, Roseanne is a racist so she meant what she said, she just didnt expect to be cancelled.

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Blue_Target
11/07/22 8:36:47 AM
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Imagine if her one tweet made everyone on staff lose their jobs.

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indica
11/07/22 8:44:07 AM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Wha?

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-Unowninator-
11/07/22 10:33:27 AM
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Flauros posted...


Yeah...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/3/AATz36AAD2y5.jpg

Jesus Christ. If I had any respect for her, it'd be gone now.

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BB_mofo
11/07/22 11:06:25 AM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
Roseanne was kind of in the same class as Howard Stern during a generation where people loved hearing extreme shit on the radio and television. Both said and did a lot of "shock value" stuff that lead to their popularity.

The public in the past had a large hand in encouraging her. If she had dressed up as Hitler at the height of her show's popularity in the 90s, some people would have been outraged but sadly she would have been forgiven. Even Whoopie Goldberg and Ted Dansen was doing extreme shit that caused outrage but was eventually forgotten.

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pegusus123456
11/07/22 11:33:33 AM
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TomClark posted...
I honestly don't know how you could take what she said as anything other than catastrophically racist.
I'll be honest, I missed the Muslim Brotherhood bit which does seem to make it pretty unequivocally racist.

But as I said, the woman she was talking about looks very much like a white woman. Call it a double standard if you like, but comparing someone to a monkey is only racist if it's against black people. No one has any issue if you're doing it to a white person (see the Bush jokes). So if she thought the woman was white (which she did later claim), there wouldn't be any racist reasoning behind her insult.

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yusiko
11/07/22 11:37:06 AM
#51:


i never really liked the show roseanne
but my mom did so it was on tv all the time growing up so i know everything
i didnt watch the reboot
and i didnt watch the conners

but i did see a clip or 2 on youtube like when darlene got slapped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4n-SJqM1Y4

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