Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Roseanne, Interrupted: Here's What Barr's Life Is Like Now" video.

  1. She is, quite unfortunately, just a perfect embodiment of something that's wrong in america, as well as in several parts of the world. It came out at the fracture Internet created and opened up for everyone else to see. It was always there, the Internet just made it more visible. She has an extensive and rich history of fighting for a position that few get, but she apparently fails to understand how much she own others for it, how much of an importance and responsibility she has towards her fans, and how dependant her position is on the goodwill of others and image she makes of herself. It's an isolationist look towards oneself that is blind to everyone and everything else. Like, what I do in public only matters to myself. People obviously should see and would see everything I intend as a joke as a joke, they cannot possibly take seriously the stuff I write, because everyone should know it's a joke. And since everything I joke about is known as joke, it won't negatively affect others. There is a gap in empathy, in critical reasoning, in education and in humbleness there. There is a lack of putting yourself in others shoes. There is an apparent misunderstanding of public and Internet related behaviour that tons of people don't seem to get. There's a borderline sociopathic predatorial behavior that seems to be either culturally engraved or just a lack of understanding of consequence of actions in people like her, and most likely in people like Trump too, plus several of the politicians he has put in important positions. It's no wonder she would sympathize so much with him and his way of thinking, because it mirrors her. She knows the tweet wasn't the only reason, yet she hasn't gone through the entire thing enough to realize this. Either that, or she's unwilling to admit it in public. This makes the entire punishment moot, because she can't learn any lessons from it. Not that it was specifically punishment for her, even though she doesn't realize this, it was just a sane decision made by a company that has a lot to lose if it didn't step up. Because the society she is living in and working for is diverse, is plural, and is not willing to take prejudice lightly anymore. She doesn't realize it wasn't something like the tweet, like typing and clicking publish there, or just something about Internet - it's about behavior, it's about spreading prejudice, it's about being unnecessarily belligerent after all that society has already done for you. Did she understand that several of the people she's offending with tweets and whatnot are exactly the fans that put her show back on top charts? Does she understand that a huge part of the people who worked for her to get there, a huge part of the audiences of the broadcasting companies that gives her the platform, and a whole part of the structure she is choosing to talk her nonsense is supported by the people she's offending? It's just weird how some people who went through a lot in their lives and supposedly had more opportunities than the vast majority of the entire world still don't get it. We have a very long and problematic tradition of rewarding people and putting them in higher positions when they don't really deserve it. It's an unbalanced system. It's the sociopathic boss situation. It's giving power to the exact people who would use it to trample all over others. It should be that the people we put in priviledged positions at least care enough to imagine themselves as others. To empathize and sympathize with those that can't and won't ever "make it". To act to make things better for all, not only for yourself. There's an entire world out there Roseanne... perhaps it's just better if you remain part of that, in the background, as part of it, instead of being a symbol of something. And perhaps one day you'll realize this. It's just a better world when people who act like you are asked to step down their platforms, and perhaps give the opportunity to someone else who will not make racist tweet jokes.
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