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New Chappelle special searing hourlong takedown of trans cashier who forgot to smile at him
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His tone and delivery doesn't make his whining about being 'canceled' or his bigoted jokes from the last five or so years better.
I love how you admit to not having a fucking clue what everyone is talking about, but still assert, full of confidence, that you're right anyway. 🤡🤦♀️
Not that it matters, because you clearly don't care about reality, but
A. "just a joke" isn't and never has been a defence, it's just openly "disguised" bigotry, but more importantly
B. Chappelle himself openly admits to not only deliberately antagonizing trans people which he continues to do, but that next he plans to deliberately target disabled people because we're less "organised" and therefore, he thinks, less likely to push back against his bigotry.
There is only one reason left for anyone to defend this asshole, he made damn sure of it, and he was right too - bigots defend bigots. ¯\(ツ)/¯
yea but that was bigotry aimed at black people, this is bigotry aimed at trans
Doesn't that make it worse? He was upset enough about it happening to black people that he left the show that bore his name.
Then he... chooses to put that ill on someone else?! Knowingly? That's straight up evil.
yes yes it does
No but they're all OK with bigotry.
"If I get arrested, I'll say I'm a woman and rape everyone." is hilarious and definitely not a screaming self-report.
What was your favourite trans joke from this set? Maybe the super-relevant one about the 2 year old music video? The plainly stated Daily Wire talking points maybe?
“Joke’s on you, I was only pretending to be a bigot” while being surrounded by and supported by bigots isn’t a great argument that you are in fact not a bigot. 🤷♂️
It is if you're another bigot who genuinely thinks bigotry is funny..
People just love telling on themselves.. 🤷♀️
Lmmfao, in other words, you admit you're a bigot and are going to die on this hill defending the.. what, reputation? of a more famous bigot, who has openly admitted to targeting marginalised people and "loving to punch down" (aka being a bigot), because you just can't fucking help your bigoted self because you just love bigotry that fucking much.
Fucking clown.
"He openly admits the punchlines of a joke? No way."
Nice of you to admit that you think being trans is the punchline of a joke.
Ok Gramma, back to the home for your meds.
Watch the Closer for both, with the bigotry being him telling jokes at trans people with the excuse that he has one trans friend.
You know, like the old 'I have one black friend' excuse that he used to make fun of back when he was funny.
I'm actually really curious about this; I see people using this same line all the time: "You do understand what jokes are, right?" or something very similar.
Do you legitimately believe that the people upset with Dave Chappelle really don't understand what jokes are? 'Cause, like, that's really not the case. If you legitimately believe that, then I think it's probably time for you to re-evaluate how you view reality, 'cause you've got some big discrepancies between it and your belief about what reality is.
I used to love Dave Chappelle. He gave a huge fuck you to the establishment back in the day, and deserved credit for that. He was punching up.
But he decided it bothered him that trans issues got the spotlight, and that he wanted to punch down. Ok: fair play. Yell some jokes.
But then the jokes suck. They're not insightful. They're not full of commentary. They don't highlight dissonance on people's words or actions.
And if you're punching down and aren't funny, you're not a comedian... you're just an asshole
Most of us grew up with him and were excited for him to come back. I watched his first special on Netflix the very first night it came out.
I loved him growing up. Now I see him for the moron/bigot he is. He isn't a comedy genius. He's just good at making fun of minorities. He thought he was hot stuff until he realized it was just giving white people an excuse to say more racist shit instead of opening their eyes to the stupidity of bigotry.
He literally quit his show because he didn't want to do that to black people... but he's fine doing that to trans people!? He's either a bigot or a fucking idiot completely unable to see the problem even after he quit his show over it.
I think you'll find that most of the people watching his comedy are former fans.
So you believe that the people who don't like what Chappelle has become in the last few years understand what jokes are, but don't think that Chappelle is joking?
I think that speaks much more to how you define a joke. From what you said, it seems to me that you believe that a joke is completely devoid of meaning and context; that the selection of material and the way it's told has no bearing on the beliefs of the person telling it. I think you'll find that most people don't share this definition.
Jokes, like every other form of communication, are a type of rhetoric. You can tell a lot about a person from the things they find funny. Dave, for instance, seems to find the idea that Trans people are crazy or lying about being trans to be hilarious (judging from his last couple of specials). Most of the people here don't share that belief.
Dave will never play catch with you or tell you he's proud of you, find another father figure.
The word 'apologist' comes from the same Greek root as 'apology', apologein, meaning 'to defend'. Apology is now a synonym for saying sorry, but an apologist is a defender of a cause. Apologists typically don't apologise for being apologists, if you catch my drift!
It's ok to joke about trans people. The problem with Chappelle is trans people are the butt of his jokes.
It's a rule of life. If you're punching down, you're going in the wrong direction.
Also, he's doing this in a climate where people are trying to eliminate trans people. Read the fucking room Dave
“If someone laughs then it’s morally unimpeachable” is a sentence you can just say.
Describe a punchline then that's funny of his now?
(I haven't watched him since he occasionally got a laugh out of me when I would skip through the Chapelle show. But usually even back then, he was only funny because it was playing off racist tropes and the uncomfortability added to the humor. He threaded the needle a bit back then, but even he admitted his comedy did more harm than good. Right now he's doing way more harm to my people, just to grab cash because apparently his Chapelle show money wasn't enough)
Seven comments deep and arguing with everyone for over an hour... Uh huh.
So basically you don’t have a joke of his that you can link to that’s funny. Not even a time stamp of the steaming pile of horse shit you keep telling people to watch. 😂
I'm willing to be convinced you just don't have it. And I'm not your bud.
No one buys this excuse outside of those who agree with the message of the jokes. Just because it's told in joke form, doesn't mean it's not saying anything. If anything the best types of comedy are the ones where they are saying things. Like I remember a comedian talking about going to do a show, and it wasn't until right after his set it was a show run by the KKK. If they have a comedy night and make jokes about black people, is that just joking? I mean, you can't claim it's racists just because it's coming from a racist, because it's a joke. You're not meant to take it seriously.
You feel the same way about George Carlin and Richard Pryor, right?