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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 3540096" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/29/roseanne-barr-valerie-jarrett-cancelled" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Liberals Killed <em>Roseanne</em>. Conservatives Crushed the NFL Protests. Everybody Happy Now?</span></strong></a></p><p></p><p>Roseanne is crazy, and her disgusting remark about Jarrett is perfectly in character. No one is allowed to pretend that Roseanne finally went too far, or some such nonsense: the Jarrett comment—for which she swiftly apologized, to no avail—is hardly more offensive than any number of things she has said over the years. If people who say very bad things do not deserve to work in television, then <em>Roseanne</em> should never have been rebooted in the first place.</p><p></p><p>And that's the problem. Conservatives won't watch football unless all the players comport themselves perfectly, rigidly adhering to the right's version of patriotic correctness. <em>How dare you disrespect the flag</em>, they say. Liberals don't think a television show should continue to exist if somebody central to its production does or says something super bad. <em>How dare you traumatize our marginalized communities</em>, they say.</p><p></p><p>This race to find more things to be offended about and more reasons to start lynch mobs doesn't seem particularly healthy for the fabric of American society, especially if right and left are determined to one-up each other on the outrage front. Many media companies will attempt to appease viewers on both sides of the ideological spectrum, and their output will be that much less interesting. I won't particularly miss <em>Roseanne</em>, but I do miss being able to appreciate a television show, book, or work of art, even if I thought the artist was a lunatic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 3540096, member: 1940"] [URL='http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/29/roseanne-barr-valerie-jarrett-cancelled'][B][SIZE=4]Liberals Killed [I]Roseanne[/I]. Conservatives Crushed the NFL Protests. Everybody Happy Now?[/SIZE][/B][/URL] Roseanne is crazy, and her disgusting remark about Jarrett is perfectly in character. No one is allowed to pretend that Roseanne finally went too far, or some such nonsense: the Jarrett comment—for which she swiftly apologized, to no avail—is hardly more offensive than any number of things she has said over the years. If people who say very bad things do not deserve to work in television, then [I]Roseanne[/I] should never have been rebooted in the first place. And that's the problem. Conservatives won't watch football unless all the players comport themselves perfectly, rigidly adhering to the right's version of patriotic correctness. [I]How dare you disrespect the flag[/I], they say. Liberals don't think a television show should continue to exist if somebody central to its production does or says something super bad. [I]How dare you traumatize our marginalized communities[/I], they say. This race to find more things to be offended about and more reasons to start lynch mobs doesn't seem particularly healthy for the fabric of American society, especially if right and left are determined to one-up each other on the outrage front. Many media companies will attempt to appease viewers on both sides of the ideological spectrum, and their output will be that much less interesting. I won't particularly miss [I]Roseanne[/I], but I do miss being able to appreciate a television show, book, or work of art, even if I thought the artist was a lunatic. [/QUOTE]
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