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In reply to the discussion: Excellent take on the Roseanne reboot [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)2. And why make the only black woman in their lives invisible and silent?
Could it be that even Roseanne knows she can't get away with her crap in the presence of a grown-assed black woman - she'd get eaten her alive.
So much better to prove she's so not racist by parading around a completely dependent 5-year-old black kid who hasn't yet formed any political opinions and certainly won't challenge any of Roseanne's.
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Why dont they show the gender fluid kid getting kicked out to live on the streets?
ismnotwasm
Mar 2018
#1
I expect those ratings to plummet over the next weeks. Viewers were just curious but will soon...
brush
Mar 2018
#40
I am not watching it either as it normalizes Trump. And falsely presents a picture of how everyone
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#4
Its not just "normalizing Trump", its normalizing all his racist, sexist, bigoted,
procon
Mar 2018
#6
I don't use the muffler shop up the street because he has Dixie flag hung in his shop....
marble falls
Mar 2018
#11
There's a shop in town that posted that crap, too. Actually hurt their business because...
marble falls
Mar 2018
#19
I rarely let an entertainer's politics influence whether I support their performances
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#23
Holllywood has in the past intentionally slow walked the American public to an epiphany
lostnfound
Mar 2018
#62
I wish DUers would stop implying that Hillary called ALL Trump supporters deplorables.
LAS14
Mar 2018
#46
YESSS anyone who was paying attention and remembers the context in which that label was
Kashkakat v.2.0
Mar 2018
#88
Never found her funny. More like "funny." I'd tune in if it was Goodman and Metcalf.
Hassler
Mar 2018
#49
This may old news to several people but another reason why I won't watch her show.
flying_wahini
Mar 2018
#56
Also my concern, any amount of normalization is bad and must be rejected.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2018
#76
Ill wait to see what the verdict is re: the whole season - now that TV is digital I judge a series
Kashkakat v.2.0
Mar 2018
#89