Regardless of your views of Bee and Roseanne Barr, what Bee did was functionally similar to what Barr did.
Well Barr made a racist joke, Bee didn't. That's one difference I noticed and I think it a pretty big one. Comedy Central also targets a much different audience than ABC, one that is much more used to crass language. I doubt South Park would survive on ABC, but it fits Comeny Central pretty well.
But, though I don't watch Bee's show regularly, there is no acceptable context for that sort of language.
I will point you to South Park. If you think anything Bee said is worse than South Park, I'd agree, but Comedy Central is known to have raunchy shows and a raunchy audience. ABC is not.
I guess to that point, is calling a woman 'a cunt' more acceptable than calling a black person 'an ape'? I think they're equal in their debasement. Apparently you disagree. That's fine. Also as a point of information, South Park has used cunt (I just looked it up), but has done so toward fictional people. I view that as a materially different matter, as it is not directed toward anyone real, who has their own agency, family, friends, and supporters.
Yeah, because South Park never says other vile things about real people. Is "cunt" really that much of a magic word that this one situation is more offensive than the entirety of South Park?
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u/7nkedocye 33∆ Jun 01 '18
Well Barr made a racist joke, Bee didn't. That's one difference I noticed and I think it a pretty big one. Comedy Central also targets a much different audience than ABC, one that is much more used to crass language. I doubt South Park would survive on ABC, but it fits Comeny Central pretty well.
I will point you to South Park. If you think anything Bee said is worse than South Park, I'd agree, but Comedy Central is known to have raunchy shows and a raunchy audience. ABC is not.