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Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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He does a few jokes. You do the obsessing .
Is this you?
You seem to be singing a different tune there... Of course in that case, it was someone mocking white people...
Wells that’s a bit creepy of you…. But I think most people can tell the difference between being attacked (in this case, supporting the murder of gays) and being the subject of a joke ?
Maybe not, maybe that’s the problem, right ?
You’re attempting to compare a comedian telling jokes, to an elected official advocating murder. That’s always going to be a difficult thing to do.
I know. Having a memory of something that happened a few days ago and an ability to use a search function sure is creepy.
Also, the 'being attacked' you are talking about is someone saying, "Another ancient white guy. Color me shocked."
Which... I don't know... seems a whole lot less offensive than using multiple Netflix specials to repeatedly demean trans people.
But you're right, "Another ancient white guy. Color me shocked." That's just beyond the pale. What a vicious, heard-hearted, racist attack!
He’s not telling jokes. He’s repeatedly making statements that trans women aren’t real women. The very same statements that are being legislated around the country denying trans people the right to use bathrooms, participate in sports, receive necessary healthcare, have parental rights, etc. it would be like a white comic in the 40s “joking” about black people using their own bathrooms or water fountains.
Given this is this comedian's 2nd (or 3rd?) netflix special in a row where he goes after trans people, I'm not sure who's actually got the obsession.
"Goes after."
That's a stretch. He's telling jokes, not inciting an angry mob.
I was just 'exaggerating for comedic affect.' y'know - like Dave Chappelle does?
Just gotta claim you're being canceled now, and Netflix will give you a special, I think.
Netflix Exec 1: "We need a new way of getting subscribers"
Netflix Exec 2: "How about this - we wait for a comedian to say something really awful, then, when ordinary people are appalled by what they said, we get the comedian to start shrieking about being cancelled...."
NE1: "We're cancelling them?"
NE2: "That's the thing - nobody is! But as we all know, these comedians core audience are people who have a Pavlovian response to the word 'cancel' and they're somehow even less able than they already were to think coherently....so we wait, for the 'controversy (lol)' to really ramp up, then give the comedian a 2 hour special. It'll only cost us a few million but the new subscriber numbers amongst the gammon population will far exceed that figure!"
NE1: "Brilliant! But wait...aren't we going to look like shitty people?"
NE2: "Possibly, but ten years from now we can produce a documentary series about the real world affect on people these specials had - we can act all contrite, the comedians can, I dunno, cry a bit maybe? Net result - more money!"
Cue greenlighting Disclosure 2, where even more exasperated trans people have to explain the damage the media is still causing trans people.
The angry mobs are already incited, he's just giving them good rhetoric