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words and actions have consequences even in Hollywerid.
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 Archie Bunker racist character. was created by a team of
 comic writers for laughs. It worked because we all knew people like Archie.

It wasn't promoting racism and discrimination, it was making people self aware of Archie's flawed thinking, in a comical way.
 


In the past Roseanne embraced feminism, was pro-union/labor, anti-corporation, pro-choice, pro LGBT

In her later years, she became a Trump supporter and
compared a black person to a character in Planet of the Apes.
 

She's always been obsessed with crossing social lines. I used to think she was funny, when she was a stand up comedian. Her Domestic Goddest routine was funny though i'm sure it's now dated.

I suspect she was on something stronger than Ambien, when she tweeted perhaps Trumpism.





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I don't think that is true, Sara Gilbert was the instigator of getting all the actors to say yes, getting it on air and was an executive producer, if she knew this would happen she wouldn't have bothered.

Sara picked a fine crew and they played their parts well. I would think anyone our age would have known Carol o Conner was a liberal and nothing like the character he portrayed. Never checked on the other members of the cast but would bet a nickel they were too.
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This may be of interest to you all:

Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922)[2] is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes.

Lear tried to sell a concept for a sitcom about a blue-collar American family to ABC. They rejected the show after two] pilots were taped. After a third pilot was taped, CBS picked up the show, known as All in the Family. It premiered January 12, 1971, to disappointing ratings, but it took home several Emmy Awards that year, including Outstanding Comedy Series. The show did very well in summer reruns,[18] and it flourished in the 1971–72 season, becoming the top-rated show on TV for the next five years.[19] After falling from the #1 spot, All in the Family still remained in the top ten, well after it transitioned into Archie Bunker's Place. The show was based loosely on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, about an irascible working-class Tory and his Socialist son-in-law.

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It's my all time favorite tv sitcom. It is one of shows we did better than the UK which is rare.
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Thanks Belle. That is interesting.
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This is how i look at it. The choice the studio had was punish Roseanne or not. The first option comes with collateral damage, but it’s not a huge deal because the cast and crew work in an industry where they know their show can get canceled and are well equipped to handle it and move on.

Any attempts to make the cancellation of this show all about the “plight of the innocent cast and crew” IMO is just an attempt to draw attention away from the fact the Roseanne Barr is racist.
Also a lot of people are ignoring Donald Trump Jr a sitting president son part in spreading conspiracy theories.

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It's my all time favorite tv sitcom. It is one of shows we did better than the UK which is rare.



Rare perhaps but it happened. My all time favorite TV sitcom is Sanford and Son, another show done better in this country than in the original UK version, Steptoe and Son.
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This is how i look at it. The choice the studio had was punish Roseanne or not. The first option comes with collateral damage, but it’s not a huge deal because the cast and crew work in an industry where they know their show can get canceled and are well equipped to handle it and move on.

Any attempts to make the cancellation of this show all about the “plight of the innocent cast and crew” IMO is just an attempt to draw attention away from the fact the Roseanne Barr is racist.
Also a lot of people are ignoring Donald Trump Jr a sitting president son part in spreading conspiracy theories.



My view is that we don't have to ignore what Roseanne did and she could have been punished for it but that didn't require cancelling her show. That is punishing a lot of people for something one person did which didn't quite rise to the level of requiring a show to be cancelled. It reminds me of teachers punishing a whole class for what one student did. That never seemed fair to me.
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I was reading an article and apparently the network has been dealing with Barr the whole season this was the last straw and the worse offense. She has been tweeting, homophobic, anti-Semite, racist stuff all year and was warned over and over to tone it down, she would promise, then get back on social media, probably not a good place for her to be in the first place.
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I was reading an article and apparently the network has been dealing with Barr the whole season this was the last straw and the worse offense. She has been tweeting, homophobic, anti-Semite, racist stuff all year and was warned over and over to tone it down, she would promise, then get back on social media, probably not a good place for her to be in the first place.



She needs to be locked in a padded cell for her own and others safety.



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