Roseanne Barr on being cancelled for 'racism' and 'anti-Semitism': I'm targeted

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Roseanne Barr says she is a \u0022targeted individual\u0022 following her controversial Holocaust comments.

The holocaust comment came after the stand-up had previously been cancelled and dropped from ‘Roseanne’, which was subsequently rebooted as ‘The Conners’ in 2018, after comparing White House advisor Valerie Jarrett to an “ape” in a late-night Twitter post she later claimed was written when she was on the sleeping pill Ambien.

Piers asked: “Have we gone mad, Roseanne, in our world? When I look at all the fallout to the things you say or do, I look at the apoplexy that people bring to jokes, to humour, to sarcasm, to irony, all these things, and I really despair that the very essence of comedy, for example, is being expunged from human life.”Article content

Speaking of the comments she made about the Holocaust, she insisted: “I meant the opposite … and the fact that it went over everybody’s head isn’t my fault.”Article contentBarr explained: “Because I’m a targeted individual. For 6,000 years there has been a Jewish civil war and nobody knows about it, I speak about it a lot. It’s at its climax right now and I have been targeted by largely Jewish people on the other side of the political spectrum.

 

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