Hawkeye wrote:Bee. An obscure female comedian who called another female a feckless cunt for ignoring her father's role in tearing apart families and sending their children to traffickers.
Some Schmo wrote:The more I hear and read about people's reaction to this, the more I'm disappointed that Bee apologized for it.
To anyone who thinks Bee should be fired for this, or is offended, ____ you. You completely missed the point, and until you at least match your moral outrage by criticizing our government for ripping apart foreign families, you complaints are hollow, hypocritical, and flagrantly idiotic. Your head is firmly planted up your ass.
Bee was highlighting the plight of illegal immigrant children torn from their families and sometimes held in deplorable conditions, a situation she said was getting “so much worse” under the Trump administration's crackdown, though she noted that it predated him.
She was also responding to recent reports that the federal government had lost 1,500 undocumented children in its care. “After decades of ignoring the issue, Americans are finally paying attention,” Bee said. “Well, most of us. Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we've seen this week.”
That tweet was a picture posted to Twitter by Ivanka of her and and her 2-year-old son Theodore. Amid reports of the maltreatment of immigrant children, critics accused her of insensitivity.
“You know, Ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c***?” Bee said. “He listens to you. Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to f****** stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes, OK?”
Hawkeye wrote:Notice the immediate roar/applause/laughter because it was an emotional response that triggered an emotional reaction from everyone who actually understood where she was coming from.
Hawkeye wrote:
The word was censored because it was bleeped out on TV, and when comedians go on emotional rants like this it isn't scripted like you think.
The host’s remarks, including the epithet, were scripted, a spokeswoman for TBS said. When the segment was broadcast, the offending word was bleeped out, but it was left uncensored on the clip that was posted online. TBS removed the video from its site on Thursday afternoon.
The difference is Roseanne has a long history of this. She's been a very raunchy and crude personality for decades. She once burned cookies in the oven and called them "Jew cookies" and thought that was cool to say. She grabbed her vagina and spit after screaming the anthem at a ball game, and Republicans still embrace her and don't consider this disrespecting the flag. But a black person kneeling at the request of a white Green Beret? That's anti-American.
There is probably nothing more offensive or socially unacceptable than calling a black person an "ape" in this day and age and Roseanne knows this, but does it anyway. Women calling other women "cunts" isn't at all uncommon. If Bee were a man it would be a sexist slur, but she isn't and so the effect is minimized quite a bit. It is like when black people call other black people the N word, which is like all the friggin time.
MeDotOrg wrote:...She had some great parodies of the hysteria of the times.
Hawkeye wrote:Remember the time Ted Nugent, a man, called Hillary Clinton the C-word?
Yeah, he got invited to the same white house that is calling for Bee's firing. How's that for double standard.
Bee. An obscure female comedian who called another female a feckless cunt for ignoring her father's role in tearing apart families and sending their children to traffickers.
Guys call other guys d---s all the time. Is that also on par with the N word?