Roseanne ***TAKEN OFF THE AIR**** for tweets! But wait,...........

[Gandalf]

This was a little beyond rude.

How is it any different to people comparing people to animals which they do all the time? Gervais will call Pilkington a chimp and it is taken as the joke that it was intended to be. People compare others to animals in a derogatory manner all the time. Michael Jackson described himself as looking like a reptile. No doubt while in Korea Brock had people pointing out his baldness. I have been compared to Pinocchio. You could take offense at every single caricature or comparison, but what is the point? My landlord looks like a puffer fish. It's not something to be crying about. Trump is constantly mocked for his orangeness and I have done that too. It's not a big deal to ordinary people. It's a hue and cry on Twitter and within the establishment. I am sure most sensible people would sooner have the show continue and for people to quit being such snowflakes. I don't see DeNiro being blacklisted because he said he would like to punch Trump in the face. That is much worse than a jokey reference to someone looking vaguely like a character from a film.

So you are purposely ignoring the racist coonotations with the statement and Rosanne admitting it was wrong?

I think you must be racist warping the word 'connotation' like that. I am saying that we ignore actual threats of violence which have no consequences and that we have many examples of people being compared to animals or having negative aspects of their appearance pointed out. I am saying that it is extreme to cancel a show over a wayward joke. It's a bad joke in bad taste, but you seem like the kind of man that would ban Derek and Clive. I am just not someone that gets upset by jokes about race or sexuality or gender or height or weight or anything else. You sound like a robot really. You parrot everything the media tells you to.

I do not parrot what the media tells me, you are ignoring something that is clearly offensive and try and down play it to something that is trivial when it is not.

If I cut you from ear to ear or drive my car into you, that is hateful and serious. If I make a joke about you looking like some creature because you happen to look like that creature that is really very trivial in the great scheme of things. You are a politically correct robot drone. Every post is some tedious politically correct line typically parroting some bollocks the media has fed you. Awful.