Social Roseanne tweets outrageously racist comment about former Obama staffer Valerie Jarrett

[Madmick]

Well, I'll miss the show.

Thanks, politics, and good job going full dumbass, Roseanne.

 

[Fawlty]

I'm interested to see if Norm will try and defend her.

He's always been her biggest supporter since she hired him to write for the original show

Not too interested in what Norm has to say until he halts his spiral of depression, drug/alcohol abuse and xenophobia. He has gotten so dumb in the last 5 years.

 

[44nutman]

I heard both Beckys were seen returning their new Hyundai's about an hour ago.

 

[Strychnine]

Of course. While there is clearly a double standard being applied, and I definitely don't feel her tweet is deserving of all this blow-back, you take on a lot of risk when you hold a very public position. You have to take special care to avoid offending overly sensitive people.

She didn't offend "overly sensitive people"...

She messed with the Disney corporations' money...

You and I both know how that ride was going to end.

 

[Madmick]

I heard both Beckys were seen returning their new Hyundai's about an hour ago.

I want a 50% refund on this joke.

Sarah Chalke gets voice acting gigs like a motherfucker. She's all up in that roll-out-of-bed-in-the-morning-and-make-dat-Disney-money-in-sweatpants culture.

 

[HatchetHarry]

If there was still any doubt left in anyone's mind about this woman's integrity, a recent tweet should make things crystal clear.

Referring to Barack Obama's former aide, Valerie Jarrett, an African American born in Iran to American citizens, Roseanne said Jarrett was what would happen if the "Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby".

After receiving obvious blowback (probably most of it from the producers of the Roseanne reboot, already green-lit for a second season) she followed up with another tweet that simply said, "I apologize. I am now leaving Twitter."

BREAKING: ABC has canceled the Roseanne series as a result of the tweet in question. #winning

Wouldn’t those comments make her Alt Left? The KKK and other white supremacist groups are left wing.

Lincoln(guy who freed the slaves) was a Republican.

 

[Madmick]

She didn't offend "overly sensitive people"...

She messed with the Disney corporations' money...

You and I both know how that ride was going to end.

How did she do that?

 

[MayhemMonkey]

Wouldn’t those comments make her Alt Left? The KKK and other white supremacist groups are left wing.

Lincoln(guy who freed the slaves) was a Republican.

thats the dumbest post Ive ever seen from you, and thats saying something


the kkk are left wing ahahahaha

 

[KeepItRealist]

Right. Because black people have historically been compared to monkeys and white people haven't.

Do you get that it's a double standard? Bush does look like a monkey. So does Valerie Jarrett. So does Michelle Obama. One should be allowed to be honest in a free society.

As I said, Roseanne has always been an attention seeking dumb ass and it was a stupid tweet, but I just loath all the self-righteous hypocrisy coming from the same people who continually give work to Olbermann his ilk. Will fire Curt Shilling and yet jump through hoops to keep Jemele Hill getting a paycheck no matter how much damage she does.

 

[PEB]

She made ABC (and it's owner Disney) look by being an overtly racist employee...

You do NOT make Disney look bad and expect to keep your job.

The issue is as my previous post points out is that Disney currently trying to acquire Fox from Fox parent and Comcast has an all cash offer on the table. Here is the issue if Disney counters with a better offer it still has to get Government approval "IE administration approval". President at least according to ATT had effected their attempt to acquire Warner Brothers so they went to Court to fight it. They also apparently hired President Trumps personal Lawyer to have a chance at having him use his influence to get the administration to back off. We all know where that Cohen talks ended up going now don't we.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Interesting considering how much jump the shark lefty/ PC the new season of the show is.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Right. Because black people have historically been compared to monkeys and white people haven't.

I am sympathetic to the point you are trying to make. There is a long racist history of comparing black to monkeys and apes. However, your claim simply isn't true.

 

[panamaican]

Yes, humorous gifs have been the typical response to this. I'm all good on gifs right now. Do you have any facts?

Can you show me a source that proves that Trump supporters are more racist than the general public?

PRobably the strongest argument to that statement is that the KKK openly stumped for Trump. Something they don't do for Democrats. More relevantly, they didn't do so for Romney or McCain. The implication being that they felt more acceptance campaigning for this candidate than even for previous GOP candidates. Not conclusive but very suggestive.

Also, that doesn't mean that the majority of Trump supporters are racist. But the question was about aggregate.

 

[44nutman]

I want a 50% refund on this joke.

Sarah Chalke gets voice acting gigs like a motherfucker. She's all up in that roll-out-of-bed-in-the-morning-and-make-dat-Disney-money-in-sweatpants culture.

I don't research jokes, plus I could not remember the sons name. I also know Sara Gilbert is on one of those all woman panel shows.
Now that I think about it should have went with the son.
It makes a funnier joke to reference both Beckys.
I will take the 5/10 for the joke.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

? Any sources that definitively show the average Trump supporter is or likely to be a racist than the general public?

Ok. A Google search would answer your question.

Analysis headed by Brian Schaffner, professor at UMass Amherst, published in Political Science Quarterly
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/polq.12737

https://psmag.com/social-justice/more-evidence-that-racism-and-sexism-were-key-to-trump-victory
This ps mag looks partisan but here is a quote from the study head from them since the full study is locked on first source

"The 2016 campaign witnessed a dramatic polarization in the vote choices of whites based on (their level of) education," writes a research team led by political scientist Brian Schaffner of the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. "Very little of this gap can be explained by the economic difficulties faced by less-educated whites. Rather, most of the divide appears to be associated with sexism, and denialism of racism."

Proceeding of the national academy of sciences if the United states.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/04/18/171815511


There were plenty of other sources from different orgs all with same findings: racists and racism was key to Trump vote.

 

[Rematch]

Roseanne said something offensive? Oh my...

 

[PolishHeadlock]

He literally admits doing this on video. It’s a very interesting interview from a very intelligent man.

Though he’s not a Nazi and he was just a kid when it happened.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/

 

[PolishHeadlock]

Holy shit.. the show got cancelled...

Kinda fucked up. That’s a lot of people getting fired for one POS tweet..

She's been tweeting fucked up conspiracy shit for a while now. She finally jumped the shark

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

PRobably the strongest argument to that statement is that the KKK openly stumped for Trump. Something they don't do for Democrats. More relevantly, they didn't do so for Romney or McCain. The implication being that they felt more acceptance campaigning for this candidate than even for previous GOP candidates. Not conclusive but very suggestive.

Also, that doesn't mean that the majority of Trump supporters are racist. But the question was about aggregate.

Right. And surely you are aware that this doesn't come close to disproving the claim that Trump supporters in general are not more racist than the general public.

The largest estimates are that the Klan's current membership is 8,000. I think most people put it a bit lower. The fact that a few thousandths of a percent of the US population are vile racists and that they support Trump says little about Trump or the rest of his supporters.

Most of this thread is political bigotry, an exercise in smearing millions over the actions of one.

 

[AFCrookie]

Now the dumbest third of our country will make her into a martyr, like when Tim Allen's show got cancelled.