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In reply to the discussion: Roseanne cancellation shows what happens when we push back against White Privilege. [View all]flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)25. I'm just happy she's gone. Good riddance to a horrible human being.
What a sweet ironic justice that a woman of color got to be the one to do it.
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Roseanne cancellation shows what happens when we push back against White Privilege. [View all]
EffieBlack
May 2018
OP
Excellent observation and YES my first reaction to all of this was Roseanne
Eliot Rosewater
May 2018
#1
I'm pretty sure if a POC publicly insulted whites, they'd get fired a lot faster than Barr did
flibbitygiblets
May 2018
#23
Let's not forget how Janelle Hill got a suspenion for simply calling the president racist. I'm sure
Afromania
May 2018
#29
Perhaps you missed all the racist comments she made going back to at least 2013
flibbitygiblets
May 2018
#60
Indeed that is very interesting...maybe it's on people's minds because today is
flibbitygiblets
May 2018
#66
Funny watching people who insist there's no such thing as "white privilege" are now throwing a fit
EffieBlack
May 2018
#44
I suppose simply saying it's so helps you believe it to be true... regardless.
LanternWaste
May 2018
#70
A few years ago, Roseanne would not have gotten away with calling a black person an ape
wonkwest
May 2018
#9
The only thing bad about it is how much effort it took. But they can be beaten.
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2018
#13
I tend agree with you, this isn't the best example of white privilege. Rather it is an
still_one
May 2018
#32
White Privilege is not a choice. Accessing it to promote, oppose or ignore bigotry is the choice.
Marcuse
May 2018
#34
The privilege isn't in what she said. It's in the fact that she's gotten away with it for so long
EffieBlack
May 2018
#39
"She could have just as well written a rant about Jewish People." --Like this?
BumRushDaShow
May 2018
#68
ABC knew who Barr was before they allowed her show to proceed in the first place.
still_one
May 2018
#27
I agree - we, even those of us whose skin color is white - need to stand up against the racism, hatr
debsy
May 2018
#38
Plus I just read yesterday that the BP character "Shuri" was just designated a "Disney Princess"
BumRushDaShow
May 2018
#69