Now this is the when people say racist/dumb stuff and get fired thread.

[Trent Dole]

Fascism is Magic!

[Stoney Mason]

Not fired unfortunately but temporarily taken off assignment.

(Image removed from quote.)

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/8/25/9206495/curt-schilling-tweets-deletes-awful-meme-comparing-muslims-to-nazis

addendum:

Update - ESPN Statement on Curt Schilling: “At all times during the course of their engagement with us, our commentators are directly linked to ESPN and are the face of our brand. We are a sports media company. Curt’s actions have not been consistent with his contractual obligations nor have they been professionally handled; they have obviously not reflected well on the company. As a result, he will not appear on ESPN through the remainder of the regular season and our Wild Card playoff game.”

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snct9q

[Stoney Mason]

Richard DeitschVerified account
‏@richarddeitsch
Curt Schilling has been terminated by ESPN.

http://deadspin.com/espns-curt-schilling-shares-bigoted-anti-trans-meme-on-1771868863

[Rufus]

Aw, he doubled down in the most boring way possible.

[Yeti]

I really detest the argument of "Your intolerance of my bigotry makes YOU the REAL bigot!"

[Tasty]

Curt Schilling Quietly Relieved He No Longer Needs To Censor Self For 3 Hours Once A Week

[Stoney Mason]

http://deadspin.com/sideline-reporter-gets-pretty-racist-on-barstool-sports-1781727626

Fired

[Stoney Mason]

http://compete.kotaku.com/overwatch-pros-racist-tirade-ends-his-career-1794595720?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow


I'm back!

I took a break from this thread since after electing a president who constantly says dumb racist things, it all seemed so moot...

[zomgee]

"Oh I only said that because I didn't think anyone was listening."

[Stoney Mason]

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-bob-beckel-the-five-1202436839/

Fox News Channel is parting ways – again – with Bob Beckel, the co-host of its primetime program, “The Five.”

“Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee,” the network said in a statement.

[Rufus]

"Insensitive remark", meaning:

Douglas Wigdor, an attorney who represents several current and former employees who have alleged racial discrimination at Fox News in a lawsuit, said he is representing the employee who complained about Beckel. In a statement, Wigdor alleged Beckel “stormed out of his office” when an African-American information-technology employee came to service his computer, “telling our client that he was leaving his office because he was black.”

[Madrun Badrun]

 

A black person in IT.  What is this, The West Wing?

[Stoney Mason]

I know its in the tv thread but I just want to bump my old thread for good time sakes.

http://ew.com/tv/2018/05/29/abc-cancels-roseanne/

[Let's Cyber]

 

It's gonna be sad to see right-wingers try to defend this

muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj

"it was just a joke"

[Stoney Mason]

Honestly I'm surprised that ABC actually showed some balls. I thought they would handwave it away via apology like all her other dog whistle stuff.

[shosta]

calling black people apes isn't a dog whistle, though

[Stoney Mason]

calling black people apes isn't a dog whistle, though

It was just a joke though. Liberals don't get edgy comedians like her.

[CatsCatsCats]

I would say it would be hard to defend that after going so hard after Michelle Wolf, but working past cognitive dissonance is a first lesson in any good political cult

[Great Rumbler]

Roseanne coming back 20~ years later, being super-popular, and then being cancelled after the first season because of a tweet feels like such an obvious plotline in retrospect.

[Nola]

Honestly I'm surprised that ABC actually showed some balls. I thought they would handwave it away via apology like all her other dog whistle stuff.

I'm a bit cynical so I would suspect the straw that broke it all was simply the fact that writers started up and quitting, with more expected to follow, and there was a pretty swift mobilization of negative PR mounting.

[Stoney Mason]

I like that the best family sitcom of the 80's and the best family sitcom of the 90's both retroactively got ruined because their stars were complete asshats.

[Stoney Mason]

Honestly I'm surprised that ABC actually showed some balls. I thought they would handwave it away via apology like all her other dog whistle stuff.

I'm a bit cynical so I would suspect the straw that broke it all was simply the fact that writers started up and quitting, with more expected to follow, and there was a pretty swift mobilization of negative PR mounting.

Yeah I suppose. Not saying I'm unhappy about it. Just surprised me a little they were so quickly decisive.

[Mandark]

Would watch a completely unrelated show starring John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf. Doesn't matter what the premise is.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Tbf the show itself wasn't super racist, it has roseanne defending a muslim family and a kid who's obviously not subscribing to gender norms. But as usual the revival wasn't very funny if at all and felt unnatural in most of it's acting and delivery. So can't say I'm sad to see it go.

Roseanne is crazy af and should probably get help but won't. What I'm wondering now if the peeps who greenlit bringing back Last Man Standing started having doubts.

Nah. Tim Allen is a drug dealing snitch, not a racist.

[thisismyusername]

Honestly I'm surprised that ABC actually showed some balls. I thought they would handwave it away via apology like all her other dog whistle stuff.

I'm a bit cynical so I would suspect the straw that broke it all was simply the fact that writers started up and quitting, with more expected to follow, and there was a pretty swift mobilization of negative PR mounting.

Yeah I suppose. Not saying I'm unhappy about it. Just surprised me a little they were so quickly decisive.

I mean the first person that wanted to revival is Sarah Gilbert, not Roseanne herself. So... if the writers/staff are like "yeah, that's a bridge too far for me" the only one that loses a steady paycheck is Gilbert (well that and the rest of the cast/crew, but you know what I mean)

[Nola]

I would say it would be hard to defend that after going so hard after Michelle Wolf, but working past cognitive dissonance is a first lesson in any good political cult

Or a business's right to restrict expression about silent protests during the national anthem.

Though honestly, even Fox News is calling her racist(though we shall see come the Hannity/Tucker hour).

The barrier on the Fox News right seems to be veiled comments that are at least narrowly open to interpretation. Then they can spin it and call the left the thought police for suggesting it is racist, then make it a whole rallying cause about free speech. Not much room for nuance left on this one.

[Stoney Mason]

Tbf the show itself wasn't super racist, it has roseanne defending a muslim family and a kid who's obviously not subscribing to gender norms. But as usual the revival wasn't very funny if at all and felt unnatural in most of it's acting and delivery. So can't say I'm sad to see it go.

Roseanne is crazy af and should probably get help but won't. What I'm wondering now if the peeps who greenlit bringing back Last Man Standing started having doubts.

I liked the original show but I had zero interest in the reboot. Just wasn't gonna bother watching a show with her in the lead as her personae now would effect my ability to buy into whatever the show was trying to go for. I don't buy her defending muslims on the show when she spends her time on twitter attacking those same people. It all feels self serving and phony, and you can say that about a lot of hollywood but in this case, it felt too close to something real.

[Yeti]

I like that the best family sitcom of the 80's and the best family sitcom of the 90's both retroactively got ruined because their stars were complete asshats.

Friends was ruined? 

[Stoney Mason]

Roseanne ruined Seinfeld.

[seagrams hotsauce]

I like that the best family sitcom of the 80's and the best family sitcom of the 90's both retroactively got ruined because their stars were complete asshats.

Friends was ruined? 

you can't ruin something that was never good

[I'm a Puppy!]

Whenever I feel like a failure at my job I just think about how many people the production company had to fire because Roseanne was a racist bitch.
Now I don't feel so bad.
 

[benjipwns]

It's gonna be sad to see right-wingers try to defend this

It was just a joke though. Liberals don't get edgy comedians like her.

I would say it would be hard to defend that after going so hard after Michelle Wolf, but working past cognitive dissonance is a first lesson in any good political cult

Though honestly, even Fox News is calling her racist(though we shall see come the Hannity/Tucker hour).

The barrier on the Fox News right seems to be veiled comments that are at least narrowly open to interpretation. Then they can spin it and call the left the thought police for suggesting it is racist, then make it a whole rallying cause about free speech. Not much room for nuance left on this one.

I want to mention this because I also saw in posts in the dumpster thread from the Reset thread. And I don't want you guys getting trapped like they are because you're cool horsefuckers.

Roseanne's openly a Trump supporter (I think they may have some history as acquaintances/friends/circles/etc.), but she's not "right-wing" in any kind of traditional/Fox sense or even a Trumpian sense, she's a batshit crazy bankster's vaccines cause chemtrails that did 9/11 conspiracy leftist type. She ran for President with Cindy Sheehan as VP, on the Peace and Freedom Party line, and Sheehan called Barr totally unhinged when Sheehan bailed out of campaigning for the ticket because of it. And even though she supports him, after the revival was popular she was talking about running again and against him in 2020 anyway, especially because of his "betrayals" even though she supports him 100%.

The show version of Roseanne had to be written as a normal Trump supporter (whatever that means) otherwise the plots wouldn't work, they couldn't write Roseanne as actual Roseanne because nobody would believe it. ("Reality is unrealistic" trope and all that.)

TL;DR version: This way lies only madness.

[Assimilate]

Rosanne will be on the Joe Rogan podcast friday! now this i gotta see 

[nudemacusers]

Oh joe.

[team filler]

 

[Kara]

Part of the reason Roseanne got on the Peace and Freedom ticket in 2012 was a last gasp hurrah to stop it from becoming a PSL front organization. (For all their faults, PSL is quite good at taking over marginal left organizations.) It didn't have the intended effect of course and it's an L that just keeps on accruing interest with time, sort of like DSA's insistence on never having a national anything.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Another reason was the PSL candidate that year was constitutionally ineligible. It kind of undermines your perennial scam as a ballot access rentier when you let that happen to your #brand.

[close]

[benjipwns]

we're starting to approach some kind of singularity now

can't wait for Zizek v. Peterson v. Barr

[benjipwns]

Part of the reason Roseanne got on the Peace and Freedom ticket in 2012 was a last gasp hurrah to stop it from becoming a PSL front organization. (For all their faults, PSL is quite good at taking over marginal left organizations.) It didn't have the intended effect of course and it's an L that just keeps on accruing interest with time, sort of like DSA's insistence on never having a national anything.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Another reason was the PSL candidate that year was constitutionally ineligible. It kind of undermines your perennial scam as a ballot access rentier when you let that happen to your #brand.

[close]

This reminds me. The Socialist Party USA screwed up so badly that they're going to lose the Natural Law Party's ballot line completely in Michigan after a pretty awesome landgrab of it away from the Evan McMullin campaign in 2016. It's been on the ballot since 1992, even though the national party went defunct in 2004 and the Michigan version went defunct in 1998 and it was usually the Nader entryist ballot line. Thanks Mimi!

In part I think they seemed to be under the impression that the Socialist Party of Michigan actually exists because someone is running a Facebook page for it and the various campus organizations don't realize it doesn't exist so list it as a partner.

edit: though i see the webpage now lists an apartment in Detroit as the Party HQ, rather than the previous status where it listed a building that had been torn down 20 years ago

[Trent Dole]

I like that the best family sitcom of the 80's and the best family sitcom of the 90's both retroactively got ruined because their stars were complete asshats.

Friends was ruined? 

you can't ruin something that was never good

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992

[benjipwns]

I think I'll wait to hear from the FDA on that, Sanofi.

[Kara]

Sanofi just promises a vaccine to children in periphery countries that actually puts them at more risk of contracting the illness if they've never had it before, they don't make racism pills.

[chronovore]

Oh joe.

Fucker, fix your custom title, it is breaking my shit.

[MMaRsu]

Jesus christ dude. Hateful cunts

Also why is Van Cruncheon banned 

[benjipwns]

he knows what he did

[D3RANG3D]

https://twitter.com/haniofan/status/1001718916077572096

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/drake-in-black-face.635909/

[Tasty]

Oh joe.

Fucker, fix your custom title, it is breaking my shit.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45627.0

[benjipwns]

#WeTheNorth

[chronovore]

Oh joe.

Fucker, fix your custom title, it is breaking my shit.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45627.0

Yeah, no.

This is a community. He can adhere to community standards. He's choosing to do this to us. He can fix his shit.

[Tasty]

This is a community in the same sense Lord of the Flies was a functioning society.

[benjipwns]

who's piggy?

[Tasty]

who's piggy?

etoilet.

[agrajag]

Jack Remington is Jack? 

[Tasty]

Jack Remington is Jack? 

Yes!

[CatsCatsCats]

Tasty is the conch

[CatsCatsCats]

Nothing to do with the allegory, just cuz we all wanna blow him

[Tasty]

Wrap your lips around me.

[Cerveza mas fina]

[Oblivion]

Hey, I was hating on Roseanne long before it was known that she was a piece of shit.

[Oblivion]

Seriously though, never liked her or the original series. My two ex-roommates loved it though, and considering they were both right-wingers, it probably makes sense.

No, the true GOAT Fox comedy series was Married With Children. And almost everyone involved in that show turned out to be great human beings.