Roseanne Barr managed to get her highly successful reboot of her show cancelled after her latest racist Twitter rant. Of course, she's been posting racist and conspiratorial tweets for some time now. Sadly, she's not alone when it comes to right wing racism and conspiracies. Alex Jones and Kanye West have also engaged in right wing shit mongering. Snopes.com has an archive of stories with the Breitbart tag. Most of these Breitbart posted stories are found to be untrue or based on flawed data and information. When people promote this kind of misinformed bullshit, it seems like most of the time they get away with it. Sometimes they issue a half assed, insincere apology and lay low for a while. But, sure enough, they're soon back their racist ways.
It would be nice if Roseanne suffered a massive backlash that ruins her career like what happened to Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. This isn't a case of silencing right wing voices. It's case against the spread of lies and disinformation that can potentially ruin people's lives and businesses.
In the time between when Roseanne was cancelled and now, another controversy has erupted. Comedienne Samantha Bee referred to Ivanka Trump as a feckless cunt on her show. Since her show is taped prior to airing, there was time to change her statement. The fact that it wasn't changed is a fuck up on her part. A fuck up she has apologized for. Her mistake doesn't warrant the same punishment as what happened to Roseanne. As noted above, Roseanne has a history of posting racist and conspiratorial tweets. This is something the network was aware of when they rebooted her show. Given her track record, one has to wonder why ABC rebooted the show in the first place.
There is a double standard here. Conservatives think it's perfectly ok for Pres. Golden Shower to spew insults and demean women, Muslims, the disabled etc. but when liberals take aim at him they need to be punished. Look at the furor they had over Kathy Griffin and Michelle Wolf. Our piss colored president didn't even attend the White House Correspondents dinner because this thin skinned prick knew people would be taking shots at him. He instead went to a rally filled with his idiot supporters that want nothing more than to lick the shit out of his ass and praise him like he was God himself. Sad.
