Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)
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peteblue
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No mate, I read about Rosanne Barr getting her show sacked because of an offensive tweet. I happen to remember that Rosanne Barr, when she was on donkeys years ago, was always offensive. What has changed is people’s immediate recourse to being offended, sometimes on other people’s behalf. What she said was stupid and offensive, but she always has been, as she said, it was a joke. What she didn’t appreciate is that her brand of humour is no longer allowed.....
Right so America is screwed because people won't accept racist jokes anymore?
tsubaki
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What is funny about suggesting someone sold out his own people to the death camps for profit when he was fourteen?
peteblue
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No. Rosanne Barr was paid to be offensive, that’s what she did for a living, humorous offensive comments. But nobody bothered to either tell her she couldn’t do it anymore, or she missed the training programme. Humour consists of degrees of offensiveness. Many comedians now use bad language as a matter of course, I find this really offensive, but being old school I don’t complain and indeed my complaint would be ignored, because it’s the wrong sort of offensiveness that must be tolerated as opposed to offensiveness that cannot be tolerated.........
peteblue
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No idea what you are on about tbh......
Yea, and Pete hates Clinton so much, I'm almost afraid to ask what he thinks about Barr's pizzagate tweets!
well maybe before you come to Barrs defense with your 'it was just a joke' stuff, you should have a look at her other tweets. Including the ones Don Jr. retweeted.
peteblue
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I haven’t seen any of these, I do read a lot, but I cba keeping up with ‘celebrity’ tweets.....
tsubaki
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A joke that has a racial tone is still racist. Joking or not she should know this.
As for her claiming its a joke in the first place that's bs. She knew what she was saying and she believes it. Thing is she has always been like that racist and very inappropriate. People have always found her offensive and never funny.
It's exactly why after 20 years you think she would know better considering ABC took a massive risk on putting her back on TV.
Anyway Racists always say they were joking or their account was hacked or an intern will be fired.
peteblue
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I didn’t defend her......
tsubaki
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Pizzagate is neither here nor there tbh, its nonsense but its nonsense of this time.
Saying someone sent people to the death camps and profited as a result on the other hand is about as offensive as its possible to be and I hope Soros takes her to the absolute cleaners over it. The mad thing is that 99% of the people who liked or retweeted it (and the likes of pete here who claim not to have seen it) are or claim to be zionists.
peteblue
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This is exactly what I said. She was always offensive. Why did they think she would be any different now......
Because with any other president setting the tone, she may not have felt empowered to tweet out her racist thoughts.
How are you missing this?
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