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Roseanne with a disgusting, racist, transphobic tweet. (Original Post) Drunken Irishman Dec 2013 OP
I'm trying to figure out what her problem is with Susan Rice? Loudly Dec 2013 #1
Her CBS interview on Benghazi. Drunken Irishman Dec 2013 #2
Then that wouldn't be an expression of animus but instead of admiration. Loudly Dec 2013 #4
Doubtful. Drunken Irishman Dec 2013 #5
This is what she said her problem with her is: ohheckyeah Dec 2013 #8
She always was bitter and nasty, but hid it better in the past... TreasonousBastard Dec 2013 #3
I didn't call her a racist or transphobic. I said her tweet was. Drunken Irishman Dec 2013 #6
To most people in a venue like this... TreasonousBastard Dec 2013 #9
Because I don't know Roseanne... Drunken Irishman Dec 2013 #10
Bingo! patricia92243 Dec 2013 #13
What a disgusting tweet. Vashta Nerada Dec 2013 #7
3rd party quack that pushes false equivalencies about our 2-party system. politichew Dec 2013 #11
She dislikes Rice for the same reason she & her followers dislike Obama. Tarheel_Dem Dec 2013 #12
 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
1. I'm trying to figure out what her problem is with Susan Rice?
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 01:35 AM
Dec 2013

It's clearly unrestrained lashing out, but what's the source of the animus?

 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
4. Then that wouldn't be an expression of animus but instead of admiration.
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 01:47 AM
Dec 2013

A crude compliment referencing strength of a man presenting in a woman.

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
8. This is what she said her problem with her is:
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 01:50 AM
Dec 2013

susan rice is not Trans, she is a patriarchal war criminal.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
3. She always was bitter and nasty, but hid it better in the past...
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 01:47 AM
Dec 2013

She doesn't like Rice and this is an ugly OTT insult. Lots of people do OTT insults toward people they don't like, even here, and the world doesn't end.

And you need more evidence she's racist or transphobic than a throwaway insult. Part of the problem is people jumping on any little thing to get to their loudspeaker.

(Never forget "Nappy Hair&quot





TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
9. To most people in a venue like this...
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 01:55 AM
Dec 2013

such distinctions are often lost. Besides, why accuse the tweet of being racist, etc. and not have some assumption of racism on the part of the tweeter? Do non-racists generally post racist bullshit?

As for the tweet itself, as I said, it was a crude insult and crude insults always have some element anti-whatever is being insulted.

Tempest...teapot.

 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
10. Because I don't know Roseanne...
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 02:00 AM
Dec 2013

I can only go by what she tweets. I don't know if she's a bigot or if she's just saying something offensive for the sake of saying it. It doesn't make her comments any less offensive, though. At least, no more than when Alec Baldwin says something homophobic. Do I know if he hates gays? Of course not. But it doesn't mean what he says sometimes isn't homophobic.

It's a trashy tweet from a trashy comedian who is probably a bit past her prime.

 

politichew

(230 posts)
11. 3rd party quack that pushes false equivalencies about our 2-party system.
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 02:27 AM
Dec 2013

I'm never surprised when someone like that spouts something that hateful.

And the more irrelevant they become, the more unhinged they become... although it's hard to determine which comes first.

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