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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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To: mylife

“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?


61 posted on 10/08/2021 10:05:41 AM PDT by pas
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To: mylife

No one cares what the butthole surfers think.


62 posted on 10/08/2021 12:33:46 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

“Ooh, y’all ain’t gonna like what he infers about Pence.”

Oh really..... LMAO as it was hilarious.


64 posted on 10/08/2021 1:58:31 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: mylife

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...


65 posted on 10/08/2021 2:02:31 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: EEGator

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


66 posted on 10/08/2021 5:26:40 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: LastDayz

LOL, I saw it. Definitely the best line of the skit.


67 posted on 10/08/2021 5:48:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: tet68

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!


68 posted on 10/08/2021 10:33:56 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: lurk

Yep. My guess is people are sick of trans newspeak. No, men cannot get pregnant.


69 posted on 10/08/2021 10:35:51 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: PGR88

I prefer the term Alphabet Cult. More accurate.


70 posted on 10/08/2021 10:37:56 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Demiurge2

LOL


71 posted on 10/08/2021 10:47:41 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: SunkenCiv

Marking, so I can watch your Chapelle link later.


72 posted on 10/08/2021 11:18:43 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: pas

I wish I were as astute as you.


73 posted on 10/08/2021 11:21:41 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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