K so the Roseanne reboot. 1) Watching the show is, yeah, morally dicey. Roseanne Barr is a pretty bad person. And I’m still not cool with the whole Black-ish thing in comparison.
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6) I DO have a problem with Roseanne Barr the Trump voter, who is not a Trump voter in the way Roseanne Conner is, but is instead a Trump voter in the way Dave Chappelle, in an alternate universe where Trump didn’t target blacks, might be a Trump voter.
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Roseanne Barr is a performative MAGA because she actually IS a deplorable—that is, she is a person who, rather than engage with the ethical claims/demands contemporary times make on her, embraces her (performative, and by inference false) indifference towards those claims/demands
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And because she, like Dave Chappelle, is among the idle rich, I have none of the sympathy for these rich comedians that I have for your average hood nigga that loves Dave Chappelle or the WWC folks who identify with Roseanne (if they exist, idk bc I don’t know them).
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7) Ultimately, the show offers a perfectly palatable compromise: you can be culturally conservative, and even vote for Trump, as long as when the rubber meets the road in your real life, you show up for the people who are “different” within your family.
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And of course, the inference is that you then will vote for, e.g., Bernie Sanders: louder about economic justice, more, um... a softer touch when it comes to social justice (to be almost absurdly generous).
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Frankly, I don’t think that’s a bad compromise to offer Trump voters. AND, as actual conservatives recognize, by casting that as the Acceptable Trump Voter, you further marginalize active, rather than passive, bigotry.
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AND you insist that passive bigots are only OK if, when the rubber meets the road, after they go sit in the garage and drink an angry beer about it, they choose against the bigotry (inference being if they can do this in their lives, they can do it at the ballot box too.)
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Ultimately, therefore, I think the show is likely to do more good than harm. Still, I would feel a lot more comfortable watching it if a) ABC hadn’t censored Black-ish, and b) Roseanne Barr were less, well, deplorable.
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