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Letter: Roseanne isn’t racist — one must prove intent

Roseanne Barr’s comment was not racist. She said she thought Valerie Jarrett was white and there is evidence to support that. There can be no racism without knowledge and intent.

Some said the great pianist Arthur Rubinstein looked like a fish. Rubinstein self-deprecatingly said the same thing. Barr’s comment was no more racist than the fish comment. And where is the outrage over conservatives, male and female, being made fun of so viciously and hypocritically by the left — who routinely use the term “racist” falsely, as the ultimate weapon of destruction, even while calling Trump an “orangutan ape,” and his daughter a (blank), for example?