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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“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 condemns it and wants it off Netflix. So they went about proving the point?
No one cares what the butthole surfers think.
“Ooh, y’all ain’t gonna like what he infers about Pence.”
Oh really..... LMAO as it was hilarious.
Chappelle’s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.
If you can’t make fun of marginalized communities,
who CAN you make fun of???
Socialism doesn’t believe in fun...
Dang.... yanked my post. Guess I should have put quotation marks around the “offensive” line in his skit. Oh well.
Another all time fav. of Chappelle fans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG1z5NF-Mjo
LOL, I saw it. Definitely the best line of the skit.
I heard he commented on mentally ill trans folks, and got attacked. He was simply responding this time. Plus, I think he said that a man saying he’s a woman does not erase reality. The man is brilliant!
Yep. My guess is people are sick of trans newspeak. No, men cannot get pregnant.
I prefer the term Alphabet Cult. More accurate.
LOL
Marking, so I can watch your Chapelle link later.
I wish I were as astute as you.
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