Roseanne is straight up racist.
I don’t know. She said something racist. I don’t know if that makes her racist.
Of course it does.
I disagree. Plenty of people say stupid things they don’t mean. I’m sure you’ve said something racist before. I have. We’re not racist. Even if she is, her work isn’t and is the opposite of racist, so why does it matter? I care so much more about actions than words, especially when dealing with crazy people. I use the same line of reasoning when people claim to be liberals but do nothing but make excuses for the right and platform almost exclusively right-wing people, like Dave Rubin typically does. In that case, actions speak louder to me than words do.
She actually had an episode about unconscious racism where she called out white people for unwittingly judging black people.
That doesn’t make her not racist (she isn’t even a writer on the recent season).
It definitely means that her big contributions to society aren’t racist.
Roseanne’s been a fucking loon for a long time:
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/29/17406014/roseanne-racism-abc-trump-twitter
No one claims that she isn’t. She’s totally crazy and has been for at least a decade. ABC knew that full well, I’m sure.