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<blockquote data-quote="Jimmy Todd" data-source="post: 164084" data-attributes="member: 3926">I am NOT making a pro-Trump statement here, but I believe she was fired because she disrupted the narrative that the only reason anyone would vote for Trump is because they are racist&nbsp; misogynist troglodytes.&nbsp; What she said was terrible and elicited understandable outrage. but many comedians and actors have said worse and been given a pass. I can&#039;t take Hollywood seriously in their outrage when not only did Roman Polanski get an academy award, many in Hollywood signed a petition saying he should be allowed back in the country and what he did should be forgotten. He&#039;s a rapist, and they&#039;re defending that. Are any of then facing a backlash?Roseanne&#039;s character and Laurie Metcalf&#039;s character were presenting two sides to the political debate, and both were making valid points. Roseanne has never been a conservative and her show has always given voice to the marginalized such as Blacks, Native Americans, women&nbsp; and the LGBT community. The marginalized group she has been particularly adamant about representing is the working class. There is a huge swath of America made up of working class people who. I believe felt forgotten and have lost faith in the political system. In Trump they saw something that might be more than business as usual. Whether they are right or wrong is not the issue. The issue is that Roseanne was provoking true thought about why Trump won. True intellectual debate is not easy, and nobody is going to come out perfect. Hollywood is dominated by left leaning people who kay not want to truly answer the question why states that never voted Republican did so in this election. They also voted for someone who, if you told me back in the 1980s that he win the presidency I would have thought the opposite party ran a sack of potatoes against him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jimmy Todd, post: 164084, member: 3926"] I am NOT making a pro-Trump statement here, but I believe she was fired because she disrupted the narrative that the only reason anyone would vote for Trump is because they are racist misogynist troglodytes. What she said was terrible and elicited understandable outrage. but many comedians and actors have said worse and been given a pass. I can't take Hollywood seriously in their outrage when not only did Roman Polanski get an academy award, many in Hollywood signed a petition saying he should be allowed back in the country and what he did should be forgotten. He's a rapist, and they're defending that. Are any of then facing a backlash? Roseanne's character and Laurie Metcalf's character were presenting two sides to the political debate, and both were making valid points. Roseanne has never been a conservative and her show has always given voice to the marginalized such as Blacks, Native Americans, women and the LGBT community. The marginalized group she has been particularly adamant about representing is the working class. There is a huge swath of America made up of working class people who. I believe felt forgotten and have lost faith in the political system. In Trump they saw something that might be more than business as usual. Whether they are right or wrong is not the issue. The issue is that Roseanne was provoking true thought about why Trump won. True intellectual debate is not easy, and nobody is going to come out perfect. Hollywood is dominated by left leaning people who kay not want to truly answer the question why states that never voted Republican did so in this election. They also voted for someone who, if you told me back in the 1980s that he win the presidency I would have thought the opposite party ran a sack of potatoes against him. [/QUOTE]

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