Roseanne calls herself a ‘hate magnet’, but her thinking is depressingly mainstream | Suzanne Moore

The comedian’s views were always troubling: what’s changed is that ‘un-PC iconoclasts’ are now ten a penny

Can “hate-magnets” be rehabilitated? This is how Roseanne Barr described herself while talking about how she was “impaired” because of sleeping pills when she posted a racist tweet that she now regrets.

She has black children in her family. She didn’t mean it and has lost everything. Barr was once great. She gave us a smart, savvy portrayal of working-class culture. It was groundbreaking and she was loved. But, long before the new series of Roseanne was aired, she had revealed herself on Twitter to be a Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist. Her views were, as the kids say, “problematic”. Round-the-clock sleeping pills?

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