{"id":20011,"date":"2012-08-13T19:33:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T23:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=20011"},"modified":"2013-04-04T00:12:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T04:12:42","slug":"video-comedian-wayne-brady-insults-trig-palin-at-roseanne-roast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/video-comedian-wayne-brady-insults-trig-palin-at-roseanne-roast\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: comedian Wayne Brady insults Trig Palin at Roseanne roast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Sunday, Comedy Central held a roast of actress\/comedienne Roseanne Barr. Scores of celebrities were there, one of them being comedian Wayne Brady, most famous for his improv work on <em>Whose Line Is It Anyway?<\/em>. And while roasts are known for offensive jokes, one of Brady&#8217;s was booed loudly by the crowd. Brady told another actor, Jeff Ross, that a lot of people hate him, because he reminds them of what Trig Palin will look like when he&#8217;s 40. Trig is Sarah Palin&#8217;s four-year-old son with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/115882\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be entirely surprised or offended. After all, it&#8217;s normal to dehumanize and insult people with disabilities, and especially Down syndrome. Heck, scores of parents demand payouts from hospitals just because their child with Down syndrome was even <em>born<\/em>. Taking Sarah Palin out of the picture, why is it socially acceptable to say these kinds of things about a disabled child? Consider what Brady said. People <em>hate<\/em> Jeff Ross because he looks like someone with Down syndrome. I guess in Wayne Brady&#8217;s world, everyone hates the way people with Down syndrome look.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s sad about this is that a vast majority of people who have Down syndrome were surveyed to be happy with themselves, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2011\/09\/22\/down-syndrome-families-happy\/14087\">including their appearance<\/a>. That&#8217;s a wonderful thing, and it&#8217;s something that we &#8220;typical&#8221; people should aspire to. After all, I highly doubt that you could survey any group of adults and find that over 90% of them are happy about how they look. Yet those are the exact results that were found in adults with Down syndrome. But how will they feel when they&#8217;re told that people <em>hate<\/em> them for the way they look? Will they still be happy with their appearance and themselves?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s also sad about this is that this event took place before it aired on Sunday. Jokes that were deemed too offensive were edited out. A joke at the expense of a child with Down syndrome, however, was considered acceptable. And apparently, to some people, it&#8217;s not only acceptable, but funny. What does that say about how we as a society view people with Down syndrome, or disabilities in general? Clearly, too many of us see them as less than human, as people it&#8217;s OK to mock and insult.<\/p>\n<p>And it is things like this that, in my opinion, are the reasons why so many mothers abort their babies with Down syndrome upon receiving a prenatal diagnosis. It&#8217;s not the prenatal testing. Look at what we are telling them! They hear that people with Down syndrome are dumb, that they&#8217;re going to be helpless all their lives, and (this just in!) they&#8217;re so ugly that people hate them. To say that we dehumanize people with Down syndrome seems like an understatement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dehumanization parade continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,496,1350,1049,429,1011,1354,1352,677,1353,1351],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Video: comedian Wayne Brady insults Trig Palin at Roseanne roast - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/video-comedian-wayne-brady-insults-trig-palin-at-roseanne-roast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Video: comedian Wayne Brady insults Trig Palin at Roseanne roast - 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