There is a bright spot in all of the unsettling news of late. Roseanne is gone.
She’s gone because of her hateful and racist tweets, not because of her so-called humor.
On the air, she was a millennial-era Archie Bunker – quick in an early May episode of her namesake television show to stereotype her new Muslim neighbors as terrorists and demean them.
Like Archie Bunker’s bigoted spoutings in “All in the Family,” the show “Roseanne” was meant to spoof the ignorance that leads many Americans to hatred, racism and sexism.
But unlike the late Carroll O’Connor, who played Bunker and made it clear in his real life actions that he was anything but an Archie Bunker-like bigot, the actor Roseanne Barr – who played the classless Roseanne Conner – didn’t leave her real-life classless racism and Islamaphobia at the studio.