WillowTree
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That makes a large portion of black people racist! We have them on this site continuously making racist comments about whites!No, Samantha Bee's vulgarity isn't equivalent to Roseanne Barr's racism
Being foul-mouthed is not the same as a white person calling a black person an ape, or a Jewish Holocaust survivor a Nazi.
It’s sad that I need to explain this, but being racist and spreading anti-Semitic propaganda is worse. Much, much worse.
Why? Because Barr’s comments belittle an entire race of people and help spread paranoid fear of a Jewish global order. Dehumanizing entire groups of people as such puts them in danger of violent reprisal, and helps to justify the stripping of their civil rights.
There is no such inherent threat in Bee's vulgarity. Rather, equating crudeness with Roseanne's outlandish tweets normalizes racism and anti-Semitism.
That the White House would issue a full-throated condemnation of Bee while the president offered a dog-whistling defense of Barr speaks volumes.
Liberals have no problem turning on their own when they deserve it. See Kathy Griffin, Al Franken, Aziz Anzari, Lena Dunham … the list goes on.
This is not one of those cases.
Besides, if conservatives genuinely think dropping the C-bomb on TV is a firable offense — and they aren’t just culture war trolling — there’s a big fat target for their ire sitting in the White House.
No, Samantha Bee's vulgarity isn't equivalent to Roseanne Barr's racism
I have no problem with vulgarity but do have a problem with racism.
I agree.
What Bee said was vulgar...not racist.
Anyone who thinks that a racist comment is as bad as an insult (even the 'c' word) is clearly racist themselves.