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Don’t throw out the ‘Roseanne’ audience with the racist actress

By Philip Wegmann
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Don’t throw out the ‘Roseanne’ audience with the racist actress

ABC has canceled “Roseanne” after the star of that show compared a former member of the Obama administration to an ape. That was the right decision. But ABC and all of Hollywood are dangerously close to dismissing the audience of her television show as themselves racist. That would be the wrong conclusion.

As many as 22.1 million viewers tuned into the program, not to watch Roseanne Barr regurgitate conspiracy theories, but to see comedy from outside a coastal bubble.

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