Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Roseanne Barr

Several years ago, Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett which got her removed from her own TV show. 

She had already called for critics of Israel to be killed. She had tried to become the Green Party's presidential candidate but abruptly became a Trump supporter because the left criticizes Israel.

Now she has said in a podcast interview that "Nobody died in the Holocaust, either. That's the truth." She denied it, but she was in favor of it: “It should happen. Six million Jews should die right now ‘cause they cause all the problems in the world. But it never happened.”

She's Jewish and reportedly had relatives murdered by the Nazis in Lithuania.

Extreme racism in itself had never been considered a mental illness simply because it's so common, but during the last big controversy, Michael Moore wrote this about Roseanne:
“Roseanne seems to be suffering from some sort of madness. It’s more than just saying she’s a racist,” Moore writes. “She operates in the same sewer of lies, conspiracy theories and bigotry that’s been rising in America for years and that has now succeeded in electing our current president. Totally nuts.” 
“But she is also a damaged soul. Most people don’t know that she has suffered her entire life from a massive head injury she received during a serious car accident when she was a child. Her brain injuries were immense and she spent months in the hospital struggling to recover,” he continues.

As it happened, Roseanne had tweeted or re-tweeted an attack on Michael Moore the same day she made her attack on Jarrett.

It may be hard to feel sympathy for her, but you probably should.

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