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In reply to the discussion: Roseanne cancellation shows what happens when we push back against White Privilege. [View all]tonedevil
(3,022 posts)46. She has literally gotten away...
with it in the past. In this Rolling Stone article about the current horrid tweet there is this paragraph:
But Barr's vile tweet shouldn't come as a surprise. The comedian has a long history of espousing similarly problematic views. This ins't even the first time she's compared an African American to an ape on Twitter. In 2013, she wrote that Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice "is a man with big swinging ape balls." Both that tweet and the tweet comparing Jarrett to an ape have been deleted.
That was only 5 years ago. She didn't have a TV show to lose at the time, but she was able to get one in spite of 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