ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after racist Twitter rant

[Anonymous]

Why wasn’t it racist?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Why wasn’t it racist?

My dictionary defines racism as, "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior." The Root reporter and Carson are the same race so it does not meet this definition. However, as I said, I don't have an answer to whether it is racist or not. I don't think that's a decision for a white guy. I'd like to hear what people of color think about whether one black person can be racist against another black person.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/abc-apologizes-kill-china-joke-651387

Jimmy Kimmel at ABC - “Kill Everyone in China”

Is this a joke or racism?

No response from anyone?

For those who didn't click on the link (which, btw, goes to an article from 2013):

The boy's unscripted comment, in which he suggested that Americans “kill everyone in China,” came during a comedy bit in which youngsters commented on news events. The skit, aimed at poking fun at childish politicians, aired last week on Kimmel's late-night talk show.

This also appears to have been a live show.

So, yes, fire the kid. Damn, conservatives have completely lost it these days.

wow ... you blamed the kid for ABC airing "Kill Everyone in China" ... SMH

[Anonymous]

I am absolutely certain that liberals will be calling for the firing of Samantha Bee after her disgusting comments.
Oh, wait.... she is scheduled to receive an award tonight for “advancing social change.”

[Anonymous]

Onion nails it.

https://entertainment.theonion.com/showrunner-disappointed-world-will-never-see-episode-wh-1826423126/amp?__twitter_impression=true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am absolutely certain that liberals will be calling for the firing of Samantha Bee after her disgusting comments.
Oh, wait.... she is scheduled to receive an award tonight for “advancing social change.”

Sorry you’re Triggered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am absolutely certain that liberals will be calling for the firing of Samantha Bee after her disgusting comments.
Oh, wait.... she is scheduled to receive an award tonight for “advancing social change.”

I’ll call for her firing right after Hannity is fired for his racist birtherism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am absolutely certain that liberals will be calling for the firing of Samantha Bee after her disgusting comments.
Oh, wait.... she is scheduled to receive an award tonight for “advancing social change.”

Sorry you’re Triggered.

So, you approve of her comments. Good to know.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wasn’t it racist?

My dictionary defines racism as, "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior." The Root reporter and Carson are the same race so it does not meet this definition. However, as I said, I don't have an answer to whether it is racist or not. I don't think that's a decision for a white guy. I'd like to hear what people of color think about whether one black person can be racist against another black person.

Of course people of color can be racist against people of their same race. Was the porch monkey comment racist? I would call it highly offensive and as a woman of color I would not have done it. However,people who have a shared race, ethnicity, culture, background often speak to and about one another in a way that speaks to those shared contexts. Something people outside of those groups should not feel entitled to do, especially if those ways of speaking were at one time used as a way of degrading, denigrating and demeaning those within the group. It's like when two people are married, maybe Jeff's wife calls him "Sweetie Poo", I do not feel entitled to do what Maria does. NOW, Jeff may hate being called "Sweetie Poo" and he and Maria may debate, discuss, scream, holla, and tear s*** up about whether that term of endearment is acceptable. THAT'S BETWEEN JEFF AND MARIA.

[Anonymous]

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wasn’t it racist?

My dictionary defines racism as, "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior." The Root reporter and Carson are the same race so it does not meet this definition. However, as I said, I don't have an answer to whether it is racist or not. I don't think that's a decision for a white guy. I'd like to hear what people of color think about whether one black person can be racist against another black person.

Of course people of color can be racist against people of their same race. Was the porch monkey comment racist? I would call it highly offensive and as a woman of color I would not have done it. However,people who have a shared race, ethnicity, culture, background often speak to and about one another in a way that speaks to those shared contexts. Something people outside of those groups should not feel entitled to do, especially if those ways of speaking were at one time used as a way of degrading, denigrating and demeaning those within the group. It's like when two people are married, maybe Jeff's wife calls him "Sweetie Poo", I do not feel entitled to do what Maria does. NOW, Jeff may hate being called "Sweetie Poo" and he and Maria may debate, discuss, scream, holla, and tear s*** up about whether that term of endearment is acceptable. THAT'S BETWEEN JEFF AND MARIA.

Wut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wasn’t it racist?

My dictionary defines racism as, "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior." The Root reporter and Carson are the same race so it does not meet this definition. However, as I said, I don't have an answer to whether it is racist or not. I don't think that's a decision for a white guy. I'd like to hear what people of color think about whether one black person can be racist against another black person.

Of course people of color can be racist against people of their same race. Was the porch monkey comment racist? I would call it highly offensive and as a woman of color I would not have done it. However,people who have a shared race, ethnicity, culture, background often speak to and about one another in a way that speaks to those shared contexts. Something people outside of those groups should not feel entitled to do, especially if those ways of speaking were at one time used as a way of degrading, denigrating and demeaning those within the group. It's like when two people are married, maybe Jeff's wife calls him "Sweetie Poo", I do not feel entitled to do what Maria does. NOW, Jeff may hate being called "Sweetie Poo" and he and Maria may debate, discuss, scream, holla, and tear s*** up about whether that term of endearment is acceptable. THAT'S BETWEEN JEFF AND MARIA.

P.S.
If you want this Monique chick fired. I suggest your time might be better spent on change.org, complaining to the Root and whatever other websites, publications, milk carton companies may be hiring this FREELANCE journalist, but complaining on DCUM is pointless. Especially, since most of us never read that article or heard of her AND I READ THE ROOT.

[Anonymous]

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wasn’t it racist?

My dictionary defines racism as, "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior." The Root reporter and Carson are the same race so it does not meet this definition. However, as I said, I don't have an answer to whether it is racist or not. I don't think that's a decision for a white guy. I'd like to hear what people of color think about whether one black person can be racist against another black person.

Of course people of color can be racist against people of their same race. Was the porch monkey comment racist? I would call it highly offensive and as a woman of color I would not have done it. However,people who have a shared race, ethnicity, culture, background often speak to and about one another in a way that speaks to those shared contexts. Something people outside of those groups should not feel entitled to do, especially if those ways of speaking were at one time used as a way of degrading, denigrating and demeaning those within the group. It's like when two people are married, maybe Jeff's wife calls him "Sweetie Poo", I do not feel entitled to do what Maria does. NOW, Jeff may hate being called "Sweetie Poo" and he and Maria may debate, discuss, scream, holla, and tear s*** up about whether that term of endearment is acceptable. THAT'S BETWEEN JEFF AND MARIA.

Wut?

What exactly did you fail to understand ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Come on. you know white people control the levers of power in this country, even if black ppl hold local office. NRA money, baby, that's where it all comes from, and no white republican is going to stand up to the NRA

Bullish!t. Take responsibility for the violence and crime in your own neighborhoods and stop pretending it’s everyone’s fault but your own.

This is racist thinking. All black people are responsible for anything done by any other black person? How do you know what neighborhood that poster lives in? Not all back people live in crime-filled neighborhoods.

The past few PPs have been discussing violence in black neighborhoods. Please don’t be purposely obtuse. Again I ask: what is it that blacks would like whites to do about black people killing other black people? If we speak out about it, we’re called racists. If we say and do nothing, we’re accused of ignoring the problem. What exactly should white people do about violence in black communities and why are we blamed for it? Do you have an actual answer or are you just going to continue with the PC non-answers?

WTF?! When are you going to take responsibility for white people killing each other? WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF NOT ALL BLACK FOLKS LIVE TOGETHER.

No one said all blacks live together. We’re talking about neighborhoods in which there is a lot of violence, perpetuated by and against blacks. And as predicted, you have no answer for what you want white people to do about it - other than accept the blame for this violence that has nothing to do with us.

We want all people to care about all people dying due to senseless crime. To care about anyone that violence touches. Can you do that? Is that an answer for you? Not matter what your race is, your should care about black on black crime, white on white crime, human against human crime. But no one seems to care about the crime that is disproportionately ripping apart the families of POC. That's what I want white people to do. Care about little children in the hood dying like you care about the overcrowding at the JKLM schools. Care about the 13 people who were shot
in DC this past weekend. Care about the families of the nearly 4700 POC who died in PR. I mean c'mon, is it that hard to say I don't want children of any race to die due to crime and violence? And that want your government to do everything they can to put a stop to it? Nobody is blaming white people for the crime in Chicago. But some people stay with the us against them mentality.

That's why America will never be great (again?).

I see what you're saying and I agree that we should all care about children dying, no matter their race or geographical location. Of course. However, can you tell us why crime is "disproportionately ripping apart the families of POC"? I want to know why this is. And whether you're going to blame people *other than the people living in those areas* for the disproportionate amount of crime there? Who, exactly, should be held accountable?

The actual perpetrators of the crime are the ones who should be held accountable. Not all of black america. And I don't why specifically it is happening, but I want it to stop and I want my government, the government that I pay taxes to, to actively do something about it, to care about the people and stop calling it black on black crime. I want you to stop a calling it black on black crime. Because maybe if you did, you actually would care about the people that are affected. Does it make some white people to feel good to blame the black children for the suffering that happens in their neighborhoods? What does it do for you to separate yourself from those children? Do you think it's okay for poor children to dodge bullets and just say well they just should blame their circumstance? Is okay that these children don't have up to date books, or dilapidated schools? Maybe that's why the crime happens? If your learning environment is like a jail, who wants to learn there? I want MY tax dollars to help poor people. I don't mind giving them a hand out. I don't want my money going to more military, more banks or more rich people.

I don't blame the children who have to live in these violent areas/circumstances. Not at all. I blame the adults - specifically, the ones who are perpetuating the violence. And I'm sorry, but I don't feel responsible for the violence they're perpetrating. That's on them. And it's on those who live in the same communities and accept that this is "just the way things are" who are to blame.

What exactly would you like people - white people specifically, since you're making a point of calling them out - to do about this? Do you want white people to march into these crime-infested neighborhoods and take the black children out, to keep them safe? Do you want the National Guard to march into these areas and put them under lockdown, to keep everyone safe? How do you think either of those scenarios would go over with the black community? What is it EXACTLY you would have the government do? Just throw money/hand outs/tax dollars to... what, exactly??

Change will never happen if it doesn't start from within the community itself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am absolutely certain that liberals will be calling for the firing of Samantha Bee after her disgusting comments.
Oh, wait.... she is scheduled to receive an award tonight for “advancing social change.”

Sorry you’re Triggered.

I’m actually laughing my a$$ off. I love when liberals believe they exist in an echo chamber

[Anonymous]

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Monique Judge called Ben Carson a "porch monkey" Repercussions?

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/liberal-writer-slams-roseanne6-months-after-calling-ben-carson-porch-monkey#.Ww84V_qmqnU.twitter

Cancel her TV series immediately!

Is it ok? Do you think she's a racist? Should she lose her job?

We white people cant use certain words that AA people can. It doesn’t bother me that the n-word isn’t for my use; I never wanted to use it. There are phrases and insults we can’t use. I’m not upset about it. Why are you?

The real question is why do you accept this?

So you’re upset you can’t use racial slurs? Okay.

DP. Don't be obtuse. PP isn't upset s/he can't use racial slurs. The point is why are white people called out when they *do* use these slurs, but black people are not? Double-standard much?