Clair Huxtable Did Not Enable Bill Cosby

Today in a since-deleted tweet, a popular account whose content addresses LGBT history posted about one of the most famous television mothers in history: Clair Huxtable from The Cosby Show. “Claire Huxtable was an enabler of the longest and most prolific drug rape predator In US history, Bill Cosby,” the user wrote. “Everyone on set knew he was a sadistic predator. Everyone. 75 women drugged and raped by Cosby and he got away with it because of enablers.”

The post incited strong responses in defense of both the fictional character and the actor who played her, Phylicia Rashad.