You Need To Care About Why 'Roseanne' Was Cancelled By ABC
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You Need To Care About Why 'Roseanne' Was Cancelled By ABC

I will not acknowledge the revival, simply because it gave her more fame and a soapbox for her hate speech to stand on.

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You Need To Care About Why 'Roseanne' Was Cancelled By ABC
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When I was a sick kid at home, my favorite thing to watch would be "Roseanne." I thought that the show was funny as all hell and was so much better than watching game shows or the history channel. Even being up late at night, I would watch it with my sister. I even got her the box set of the entire original series for Christmas one year.

The show ran from 1994-2006 and was the most watched television show at one point. There weren't a lot of politics in it and even though they touched on important topics such as abuse and substance abuse, there was still a light-hearted feeling when you would watch this show. Even though after one of the worst series finales I have ever seen, ABC decided to revive the show with all of the original cast and the laugh that America could recognize in an instance.

Keep in mind that the show began in a completely different time era. For some reason, our show of real-life issues with a lower/ middle-class American family decided to go in a different direction.

It was decided the show would get political.

Talking politics is fine, but when you get toxic and allow hate speech, you are a problem.

It would have been one thing if it was a show about American people who did vote for the Republican candidate in the 2016 Presidental election and seeing who they were as just normal people. But that went flying out the window with the front-runner of the show, Roseanne Barr, and her incredibly bigoted comments. We should have seen what was coming, to be honest, and I am shocked that we let someone like her still is involved in a production.

We could have gone through her twitter and prevented this from the start. This has been happening for a while.

In 2013, she sent this tweet about Susan Rice, who served as a National Security Advisor from 2013-2017.



She has also retweeted a chart aligning Adolf Hitler and Islam hate groups:


To be honest, we should have seen this coming and never employed someone who promotes this kind of hate speech as "content." I choose to remember Roseanne as the show I watched when I was in eighth grade and had bronchitis or when my sisters would all gather around to watch this show before bed.

I will not acknowledge the revival, simply because it gave her more fame and a soapbox for her hate speech to stand on.

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