I know you think that, but I don't think you understand how frustrating it is to put forth what at least you feel is a thought out argument with paragraphs and ****, and then have you respond with a two-sentence McPost because you don't feel like writing more on a smart phone. After a few go-rounds it just becomes more trouble than it's worth.

I already said, that if in fact Roseanne is a known racist that the joke was most likely meant to be racist. Heres a question for you:

Is it possible to make a joke about a black guy looking like a monkey that isn't racist?

They kinda do though. I'd liken it more to Neanderthals or cavemen with the more sloping forehead and pronounced brow, but it's there. It doesn't matter but it is what it is.

In the context of a vacuum, the tweet is racist.

Yes.

No you actually do suck. I have the meta-analysis and everything.

So we agree... and knowing nothing about Roseanne, it is correct to assume the joke is NOT racist. That's how the null hypothesis works.

I don't think you can. You have a very neanderthal idea of what logical reasoning is.. Your counter-points almost always belong in the encyclopedia of what not to do in a debate. Fallacy after fallacy, after emotional pleading, after lazy answer, after obliviousness to nuance after whatever.. Like I said, you'll make a wonderful politician, but don't ever join the debate team or tell people youre a polisci academic, cause it'd be an insult to your institution.

Bad ass monkey mother****er yo

We can discuss how a strawman argument works too if you like lol.

The joke is racist on its face. Assuming that the joke is not racist because it could have just been an observation either suggests that racist instincts are not racist if the person doesn't have a negative intent or that you harbor those instincts yourself.

It's not a strawman, but why don't you go ahead and explain.

If the joke is racist on it's face then you can't hold the position that it's possible to make a monkey joke about a black person that isn't racist, which you already accepted as true.

So pick a side and get back to me.