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GLAAD condemns Dave Chappelle, Netflix for his latest set of transphobic jokes
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Posted on 10/08/2021 7:25:33 AM PDT by mylife

Dave Chappelle released a new comedy special, The Closer, on Netflix last night. Which means, with a depressing inevitability, that Chappelle also released a new set of jokes predicated on making fun of trans people, depicting them as thin-skinned bullies bound and determined to push poor, multi-millionaire comedians like Dave Chappelle around. GLAAD has now issued a condemnation of the special, which includes a loud declaration from Chappelle that he’s “Team TERF!” in addition to other transphobic material.

Chappelle, in fact, devotes quite a considerable chunk of The Closer to talking about trans issues—i.e., the issue of trans people asking him not to peddle transphobic “comedy” that involves loudly declaring, “THAT. IS. A. FACT.” while talking, to rapturous applause, about the state of other people’s genitals.

Chappelle spends roughly the entire last third of the 70-minute special on the topic, ending with a promise to stop telling any jokes about the LGBTQ+ community, an assertion that reads less like personal growth, and more like he’s taking his ball and going home before he ends up getting treated in a similar manner to fellow millionaires J.K. Rowling, Kevin Hart, and DaBaby. (All of whom get namechecked in The Closer.)

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1 posted on 10/08/2021 7:25:33 AM PDT by mylife
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Unsurprisingly, it has taken very little time for rights groups—most notably GLAAD—to take issue with one of the world’s most powerful entertainment brands paying a very famous comedian millions of dollars to tell these kinds of jokes. GLAAD issued a statement today asserting that, “Dave Chappelle’s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities. Negative reviews and viewers loudly condemning his latest special is a message to the industry that audiences don’t support platforming anti-LGBTQ diatribes.”


2 posted on 10/08/2021 7:26:06 AM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: mylife

The world needs a million more Chappelles.


3 posted on 10/08/2021 7:27:06 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: mylife

Looking forward to seeing it. That’s the best sales pitch I’ve seen lately.


4 posted on 10/08/2021 7:28:33 AM PDT by afsnco (18 of 20 in AF JAG)
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To: mylife

They went after Eddie Murphy for the same thing after his ‘Delirious’ special made fun of gays.

Murphy has sinced apologized for it.


5 posted on 10/08/2021 7:28:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: afsnco

Agreed.


6 posted on 10/08/2021 7:29:25 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: mylife

Chappelle has previously called them “the Alphabet People”


7 posted on 10/08/2021 7:29:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

His “Juicy Smoliet, the French Actor” routine was classic.


8 posted on 10/08/2021 7:30:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mylife

It’s open season on white people though Dave. Anything about how stupid, selfish, cheap, ugly, racist, homophobic, sexist or goofy we are, works fine! Put us in our place! It’s uproariously funny!!


9 posted on 10/08/2021 7:30:23 AM PDT by albie
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To: lurk
And Clayton Bigsbys...


10 posted on 10/08/2021 7:30:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: mylife

EVERY joke can be offensive to someone who is looking for offense.

Example:

Q. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A. How dare you expose an animal to danger that way!


11 posted on 10/08/2021 7:31:27 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: dfwgator

“Murphy has sinced apologized for it.”

Poor decision by Eddie.


12 posted on 10/08/2021 7:31:54 AM PDT by EEGator
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Libs have no sense of humor


13 posted on 10/08/2021 7:32:14 AM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: EEGator

I guess Eddie really wanted that talking donkey part really bad.


14 posted on 10/08/2021 7:32:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Hey, it bought him a Caribbean island...


15 posted on 10/08/2021 7:34:17 AM PDT by mylife (Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
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To: mylife

I love to see the left consuming their own.
They were cheering him when he made some VERY NASTY jokes about GWB on one of his standup “comedy” shows, using explicit language suggesting Bush had performed fellatio on another world leader (I forget which one).

I have zero sympathy for him.

“His chickens have come home to roost.”


16 posted on 10/08/2021 7:34:20 AM PDT by a real Sheila (It has only been 8 months! EIGHT MONTHS!!!)
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To: mylife

“Looking good, Billy Ray!”


17 posted on 10/08/2021 7:35:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

They pushed Tim Allen off TV too for awhile.Last Man Standing was a great Show.


18 posted on 10/08/2021 7:35:14 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: PGR88

“the Alphabet People”

Now that is funny


19 posted on 10/08/2021 7:35:31 AM PDT by a real Sheila (It has only been 8 months! EIGHT MONTHS!!!)
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To: cnsmom

I went back and watched Tim Allen’s old standup shows a few weeks ago, I laughed so hard. But it’s definitely a bit dated now.


20 posted on 10/08/2021 7:36:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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