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ABC removed Roseanne Barr from the 2018 revival after she posted a tweet that likened Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama adviser, to an ape; the network called the remark “abhorrent, repugnant and incons...
Roseanne Barr’s widely reported racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett read, in the form most outlets reproduce, “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes had a baby = vj,” a post published in May 2018 tha...
Roseanne Barr posted a tweet that compared former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to the and , a message that immediate reporting and network statements characterize as racist and which triggered ABC’s can...
Roseanne Barr’s widely reported, deleted 2018 tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett read in its commonly reproduced form: Multiple contemporary and retrospective accounts show that Barr pos...
responded to ’s 2018 racist tweet by calling the episode “,” urging collective responsibility to push back against racially charged speech and pointing to the role of leadership and civic engagement i...
The tweet that triggered ’s 2018 firing read, in her exact posted form, “ & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” a reference to that many read as likening Jarrett to an ape and invoking a . The post—wid...
ABC canceled the Roseanne reboot on May 29, 2018 after star and co-creator Roseanne Barr posted a tweet that compared former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to the “Planet of the Apes” and referenced th...
Roseanne Barr’s May 29, 2018 tweet about Valerie Jarrett was widely reported in the exact phrasing: , a message that was deleted shortly after posting and triggered immediate condemnation and the swif...
Valerie Jarrett publicly framed Roseanne Barr’s May 2018 tweet comparing her to an ape as a , expressing concern for people who experience such abuse without robust support systems and thanking execut...