Roseanne versus Samantha Bee

Samantha Bee drew criticism from Republicans this week when she called Ivanka Trump a " feckless cunt" on her show, Full Frontal. Republicans gleefully compared her to Roseanne Barr, whose show was cancelled after she made a racist tweet. They have demanded that Bee's show be cancelled too.

Note to Republicans, something all sensible people know: The two things are NOT the same.

Samantha Bee was criticizing Ivanka for posting a tone-deaf picture of herself and her little boy, while ignoring the ongoing human rights crisis at our southern border where U.S. government agents are ripping children away from their parents. Ivanka is supposed to be the rational, calming influence on her father and she has apparently done nothing to prevent other families from being ripped apart, while advertising her privileged life.

What Ivanka did was the equivalent of this.

NAZI propaganda celebrating "Aryan" families
while they were destroying non-Aryan families.

Samantha Bee was right to call Ivanka out on it, and while her language may not have been PG-13, if you get more outraged by the word "cunt" than you do that children are being taken away from their parents, you need to reevaluate your priorities and, in the meantime, shut the hell up.

What Roseanne did was out and out racist. Her victim didn't deserve it, nor did millions of African Americans. She deserved to lose her show.

Samantha Bee was trying to get the attention of someone standing by while atrocities are being committed. She doesn't deserve to lose her show. In fact, while you may not like her language, she deserves to be applauded for using her platform to try and change terrible U.S. policy.

Republicans, learn how to differentiate between someone punching up to criticize an individual who deserves it, and being a stinking racist. They're not the same thing.