Roseanne’s appearance in Nazi garb as she bakes off a tray of Jewish gingerbread men displays a sickness in her — and a sickness in how we react.
“It’s deplorable, but it’s old,” was the comment of a trusted member of the clergy to whom I turned this week. I looked at the returned text dumbfounded, and responded that #NeverForget now has a shelf life. Since when does hate-speak mellow with age, especially when it happened less than a decade ago, as part of a parody of Jewish culture in the defunct American magazine Heeb.
I mean, come on.