re: #185 Renaissance_Man

America is still coming to terms with what Trump’s election means. Not the Trump being President part, but the part where a guy who’s as openly racist as that is acceptable to so many Americans. White folks with Trumpers among their friends and family are trying to make nice, to pretend it’s all normal. Single Trumpers are wondering why nobody wants to date them. Many, many people don’t want to accept what it means.

So, you have “Roseanne”, with a family that disagrees about politics but they still get along. Heartwarming.

And to make us all one big happy family, they toss in transgender, black, Muslim folks etc, who all are ‘just regular folks’. And of course, Roseanne gets to know them and like them, but doesn’t say, “Holy shit! I was so wrong about these people! I can’t believe I voted for a guy who wanted to ban all of them!”, because the basic attitude doesn’t change.

I think this phenomenon is called, “You’re one of the good ones”, as in, “Black people are too lazy and dependent. Not you (insert name of black acquaintance), you’re one of the good ones.” It allows them to keep their prejudices untouched, while stillbeing friends with one of Those People.

Now, maybe if they had an episode where the black daughter-in-law wouldn’t come to the Conner’s house, and when Roseanne finally goes over there to ask why, DIL tells here that she couldn’t stand associating with someone who would choose a man like Trump for President, and describe why. And then Roseanne realizes how racist Trump is, and how racist SHE is, and that she made a horrible mistake in voting for him.

But no, they wouldn’t do that, because it would take away from the ‘one big happy family’ narrative.