Prediction: responders to this tweet will assume I'm taking some normative position about @therealroseanne's tweet, the show, whether to cancel things for being offensive, etc, when all I did was describe a profit opportunity.
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Rare example of progressive outrage being easy to monetize: The current #2 show across all prime-time TV was canceled for an offensive tweet. Picking it up is free money to any network that values viewers over inoffensiveness. @FOXTV?https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/business/media/roseanne-barr-offensive-tweets.html …
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Whether you intended to or not, your choice of wording makes it sound like you're disapproving of the decision to fire her. "Progressive outrage" isn't uh, very neutral.
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If he used "libertarian outrage" to criticize people from his political tribe, would you be annoyed or just don't care?
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"libertarian outrage" doesn't bother me, but then again it isn't used as a common phrase by those dismissing the outrage of libertarians as silly / counterproductive, whereas "progressive outrage" is.
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Assuming you could get the rest of the cast on board. That might be tough.
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