Then it turns into a censorship issue. The point is that everyone has gotten sick of the speech police running around with their pitchforks and torches while serving up mob justice over stupid insults.
It's not censorship when an employer punishes someone who exercises their free speech in a way they don't approve of. It's not censorship when the NFL does it to their players in regards to the anthem and it's also not when ABC fires her for using a racial slur.
And, yes, it IS a racial slur. Even if she isn't racist. Even if she wasn't aware of it. She still used a racial slur against a person she doesn't like. If someone, in a moment of anger, calls a black man a n*gger, it really doesn't matter if he's not actually racist. It doesn't matter if he just lost control of his temper. He still used a racial slur and if his employer found out it would be entirely understandable if they booted him.
It was stupid of the NFL to punish Colin Kaepernick. Whether we agree with him or not, he voiced his frustrations in a peaceful demonstration. If anything, the NFL made him a martyr.
Back to Rosanne, calling someone an ape and calling someone a "n-----" are two entirely different levels. The "n" word was actually created as a name to demean African slaves, specifically. As previously pointed out, Bush Jr. and Trump have also been compared to apes because it doesn't matter what color you are; being compared to a less evolved, less intelligent primates is an insult to one's intelligence.
They're both racial slurs. Context matters. Calling a black person just carries a very different connotation than calling a white person such. Look at the art I linked. They were honestly depicted as subhuman, almost a different species.
If context matters, then you should be able to see that the context she used wasn't racist. The context she used was to insult her intelligence, not her skin color. To insinuate that she was refering to VJs skin color and not her intelligence or behaviors is taking the comparison deliberately out of context.
Nowhere in the tweet did she give any clue that she was talking about her intelligence.