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Did some of you miss the above in Mike Frezon's post? If you did not, I just deleted some posts that broach those topics again. No more, please as we're done with politics and religion in this thread.

If people preach and practice the humane decency standard there wouldn't be any double standard as that is what angers me.

I urge people to google "The View" segment and make up your own mind as I watched that segment four times over the last day or so and I don't agree with Mike's conclusion that she was mocking the entire Christian faith. That's all I'll say as I'm bowing out of this discussion as an active...

By the way, Samantha Bee is just as dumb as Roseanne in using that vulgar term just after Roseanne got fired for her racist comments. Too many high profile people have a lack of self awareness as they do and say some dumb and stupid things. I believe a sense of arrogance and the lack of...

As a black man, the use of the "N" word has always been unacceptable to me, no matter the race of the person saying it. I'm that way because of the way I was raised. It was an inappropriate term in my household growing up and the houses of my extended family. Today, my family and friends...

One is used not only to dehumanize a person, but also an entire race. I remember when Patrick Ewing was playing for Georgetown and fans from other schools would compare him to an ape. I have other similar cases including a very personal one from my youth.

If anybody thinks that show's cancellation wasn't about protecting the Disney brand name, they're kidding themselves.

I'm not going to allow this thread to go down that Samantha Bee road too much because it will eventually turn political as Ivanka Trump is currently serving in her father's presidential administration. That's a rabbit hole that we can't allow on this forum due to our posting guidelines against...

Like I previously stated, ABC knew what she was all about when they green-lighted this reboot. So they deserved criticism in that regard and I give them little credit for cancelling it.

There is a lot of history with Roseanne, a lot of Twitter history and it's not the first time she called an African-American woman an ape.

Is it really surprising???? We have good reasons to be cynical about corporate suits and their motivations for cancelling the show. However, there is no cynicism regarding her true feelings and thoughts. She is, what she's shown herself to be which means those apologetic tweets from yesterday...

IMO, nothing this egregious comparing another human being to an ape.

That would normally be the case if this drag on for days. However, the tweets came out Monday night and Tuesday morning the show was cancelled by Disney/ABC. It seems like they didn't wait for the sponsor fallout to materialize before they acted as they knew what was coming and decided to cut...

Tonight, I watched a segment with Valarie Jarrett and she said Bob Iger called her personally and apologized to her on Tuesday. Also, he told her they were cancelling Roseanne which was before the formal cancellation announcement by Disney/ABC before 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time. They moved rather...

Listen, I'm not going overboard with praise because Disney/ABC knew her twitter track record before hiring her last year. You sleep with a dog, you're bound to get some fleas. However, without much doubt, I think they were having some misgivings and saw this latest tweet storm the last one...

No question this was a cold business decision. However, I'm not going to be so cynical and not suggest that even those cold-blooded Disney/ABC suits didn't think that awful and nasty tweet cross a line that they couldn't ignore any further.

Mike and I are watching this thread for exactly that.:)

The only thing I have to say is that after reading that tweet, it disgusted and sadden me at the same time.

I never thought of Roseanne Barr as being likable even back when she was doing stand up comedy.