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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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Netflix can count on me!
Yes, you've already made your pro-bigotry stance known above. I'm just not sure why you think it's something to be proud of.
Have a day off
What?
EDIT: While you're all downvoting me, could one of you take the time to please tell me what the person I responded to meant by "have a day off?" I honestly don't know what that is supposed to mean.
It means go laugh at a joke ya wet blanket.
Did you find Rosanne's latest comedy special to be a gut-buster or were you a wet blanket who didn't watch it and laugh at her hilarious jokes?
No, her "jokes" are legitimately not funny. She does not play to diverse audiences. She curates her audience or does not have a live audience.
I see, so "go laugh at a joke ya wet blanket" only applies to funny jokes.
So not unfunny jokes like: "My pronouns are, kiss my ass." from Roseanne's special...
But funny jokes like: "I wrote a play. I did. Cause I know that gays love plays. It's a very sad play, but it's moving. It's about a Black transgender woman whose pronoun is, sadly, n*****." from Chapelle's special.
I'm proud because I'm going to watch it twice. The first time with my trans friend. Both her and I find the topic of trans rights and freedom to exist very serious but we also know when to turn it off and enjoy a comedy show. I'll probably watch it again with my wheelchair bound nephew simply because he finds it's funny. If someone were to "punch down" on any of those ppl I have and will continue to to fight for them. It's funny that you, I, and others in the thread are on the same side of the larger issue only outside of the context of comedy.
There's no bigotry here. I know how to take a joke and some of the "targets" of his joke know how to take one as well. The real victims here are the persons who cannot take a joke. Dave will continue to attack you guys indiscriminately.
Uh-huh. And your mother is a Navajo and your best friend is both Jewish and Tibetan.
Algonquin actually. Grew up up with some sassy Jews though. No Tibetan afaik but what's your point? We still on the same side, no?
This is all very believable indeed.
Just not disabled and trans people, apparently. Good job, you. You're so supportive of people whose lives are hard enough without some cunt obsessing over them so he can "punch down" at them. Have a fucking cookie 🍪
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
Don't forget to check out the latest season of Queer Eye too girl