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Axios 1 hour ago
Three days after ABC cancelled 'Roseanne' and reruns were pulled from other networks, Roseanne Barr said in a now-deleted tweet that she wants to call Valerie Jarrett, George Soros and Michelle Wolf, all of whom she has blasted on Twitter, to apologize:
"Attempting to also get phone numbers for Jarrett, Michelle and GS to personally apologize to them tho I disagree with their politics. I was still wrong 2 dehumanize them-they r not my enemy, harboring hate & anger is my enemy. I can speak respectfully 2 those w whom I disagree."
The big picture: With her future earning potential on life support, Roseanne is pulling out all the stops if she does indeed make the phone calls to salvage goodwill with the public.
Go deeper: How social media crushed Roseanne for her racist tweet
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dalton99a
(81,747 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Someone needs to take her phone away.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,515 posts)spanone
(136,011 posts)that's her remorse
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)But she should feel pretty bad about costing other people their jobs.
spanone
(136,011 posts)DURHAM D
(32,620 posts)She does not need money.
ProfessorGAC
(65,571 posts)She doubled down the next day, after she said she was off Twitter.
And she's spews nonsense about disagreeing on politics. There was nothing resembling political disagreement in her various tweets. And she NEVER explains why she believes what she believes. This latest posting is BS.
unblock
(52,574 posts)i mean, what's a bigoted rant without a jab at george soros, right?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)You only want to apologize personally so you can get some fool to hire you again.
These people are classier than you will ever be, so just let it be. Ride off into the sunset and leave the rest of humanity alone. You're toast!
hatrack
(59,613 posts)I'd like to give Cloaca Maxima credit for trying, but . . . . naaaaahhhhhh.
irisblue
(33,080 posts)I did look it up.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)It's the only thing that really works short of killing them. Talking to them is meaningless, they view it as a sign of weakness. Punching them, while extremely satisfying, only plays into their sense of being persecuted for "their beliefs." Debating them is pointless, they don't live in a world of facts or logic.
But shaming them? Taking away their livelihood? Making them afraid to show their faces outside? That, more than anything else I've ever seen, will make a racist change their tune faster than anything else. Aaron Schlossberg, The Charlottesville Nazis, Milo Yinnapolous, and now Roseanne. All of them started singing a different tune when they started getting publicly shamed and shunned.
Dox them, harass them, make them feel unsafe anywhere. That's how you fight back. And that's the only thing that's going to work in the long term.
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)who doesn't KNOW their politics. Jarrett, in particular, always espouses hazy high-minded ideals that are basically inarguable, not "grab their guns" or some such binary horseshit.
barely any conservatives can name actual liberal policies or positions, just the red herrings that their media invent.
Goodheart
(5,355 posts)Because they're not racists? Because they believe in honest government that helps people? Because they're not moron trumplodytes like yourself?
Fuck off, Roseanne. Even when you say you want to apologize it's all about scoring positive PUBLICITY, isn't it?
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)asshole
Shes fishing for sympathy
salin
(48,955 posts)Folks won't give you the numbers because your "have my folks call your folks to set something up" doesn't work when your "folks" dropped you as a client. And no one representing their folks is going to give you a personal contact number - which is likely to end up between rage tweeted to the angry alt-right trolls - and then subject these folks to weeks of individual threats and words.
Ah, but your still the victim - trying to look big - but your inner snowflake is showing.
Solly Mack
(90,816 posts)On again, off again, on again, off again.
I'm sorry...wait. No. I'm sorry...wait. No. I'm sorry...wait. No. I'm sorry...wait.
Tweet/Delete. Tweet/Delete. Tweet/Delete.
Spiral. Claw. Spiral. Claw. Spiral. Claw.
Does she not have whiplash yet?
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