Many innocuous comments have been falsely described as racist. Roseanne’s remark about Valerie Jarrett was not one of them. It is definitely one hundred percent incontrovertibly racist to describe a black woman, born in Iran, as the love child of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes. If that is not a racist comment, then it is impossible to make a racist comment.
Roseanne deserved to be fired for what she said. ABC was paying her millions of dollars and had made her into one of the faces of the network. All they asked in return is that she refrain from saying insane and vile things on a public forum. That bar was too high for Roseanne to hurdle, apparently. If she, at the age of 65, cannot operate with even a minimal level of self-restraint and decorum, she does not deserve to be a highly-paid sitcom star. This is pretty simple. There is no defending her, and I don’t know why conservatives would even bother.
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