Roseanne has been spewing hate and specifically targeting Palestinians and Muslims, as racial groups, so why didn't that cancel her?
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We live in a country in which in CERTAIN spaces anti-blackness is a kind of lightening rod, that can result in social censure, like what happened to here.
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Hollywood/TV is supposed to be one of those spaces, a “liberal space” so there is only so much overt anti-Blackness that can be tolerated without losing that liberal tag
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And because of this it might easy to fall into the fallacy we heard right after 9/11 that “Arab as the new Black.”
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1) Racism is flexible: Being socially censured for anti-Blackness only works in CERTAIN spaces and under SPECIFIC conditions, after all Trump is anti-Black and he is president
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2) the social censure of anti-Blackness does not mean Black folks are suddenly getting a break but is tied to the exact opposite
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on the one hand, the only reason anti-Blackness can work this way is because Blackness has been co-opted in the narrative of American exceptionalism. You know the drill: "The US is a multi-culti bootstrap heaven, everyone can make it here, even our former slaves!...
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..And the former slaves who don’t make it? Well, that's not because of anything wrong in this country. No! it’s because they are pathological, lazy etc, & we have proof, look at Kanye and Obama!"
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and on other hand, while Roseanne got cancelled, you know what hasn’t gotten cancelled? Racist Policing: http://bit.ly/2L9H79H Mass Incarceration: http://bit.ly/2LbS7TZ http://bit.ly/2L87blE Income Inequality: https://bloom.bg/2L6ujkD
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Voter Suppression: http://bit.ly/2L9GdKl Housing Discrimination: https://nyti.ms/2LbRBFx Health Disparities: https://ampr.gs/2LbTl1x Racist Immigration: http://bit.ly/2L9PQc0 and so on….
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so yes, Roseanne’s anti-Blackness got her censured but that’s not the whole story. And the whole story is not “who has it worse now”
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Anti-Blackness is a foundational template and all forms of racism, against Black, Native, Latinx, Asian, Muslim folks are actually in conversation with each other, spreading fictions about good and bad minorities to do 1 thing: hold up white supremacy.
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and that’s why it’s insidious, if we look at something like what happened to this one wealthy white woman in a vacuum, it can pit marginalized communities against each other when in reality, we really are all in this together.
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And now let's come together to demand justice for
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