Cruel and Unusual Punishment

After Roseanne Barr’s notorious tweet last May slagging off former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett in racial terms (Barr claims, charmingly, that she “thought the bitch was white”), ABC canceled her new revival sitcom, Roseanne. In late 2017, when the actor Ed Westwick was accused—but not convicted—of sexual assault, the BBC took out all the scenes in which he’d performed in an Agatha Christie adaptation (titled, ironically, Ordeal by Innocence) and reshot them with a replacement actor—a great show of purism on the public’s dime, in the service of a dreary miniseries I couldn’t bring myself to finish watching. To remove any of Louis C.K.’s series from streaming platforms, you should have to demonstrate that Louie the program is abusive of women.

Source: harpers.org