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Roseanne Barr says the tweet that got her sitcom Roseanne canceled the one likening former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to a Planet of the Apes character was not only not racist, but was a condemnation of anti-semitism.
Rod Serling wrote Planet of The Apes, Barr tweeted tonight. It was about anti-semitism. That is what my tweet referred to the anti semitism of the Iran deal. Low IQ ppl can think whatever they want. (The Twilight Zone creator wrote the script for the 1968 film, an adaptation of Pierre Boulles 1963 novel).
In Barrs original tweet that prompted the firestorm, she wrote: Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj. The tweet was widely interpreted as racist. Barr has not previously mentioned the anti-semitism angle.
Earlier tonight, Barr directed questions to Thomas Muhammad, her 2012 presidential campaign manager and director of a new Malcolm X documentary, but now says shell be speaking for herself soon.
Link to tweet
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/roseanne-barr-insists-planet-of-the-apes-tweet-was-about-anti-semitism/ar-AAyCooD?li=BBnb7Kz
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(52,253 posts)hlthe2b
(102,294 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)underpants
(182,830 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)brush
(53,791 posts)Ridiculous.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...could someone please connect the dots between Rod Serling, Planet of the Apes, and anti-semitism for me please. I can't even begin to see how this works. I mean, I get Rod Serling + Planet of the Apes but after that I'm lost.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)America's history of prejudice and ignorance. And it was written by Rod Serling, who was Jewish.
Still, a balls-out crazy statement to make.
She wants her show back awful bad. Must have some bad debts to pay back...
tavernier
(12,392 posts)She just wont be in it.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)LMAO
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And how is the Iran deal anti-semitic? Because it deprived Netanyahu of a casus belli?
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)However, this will be grist for the mill for those who are anti-Semites or make a hobby of ignoring anti-Semitism; this plays right into their hands.