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New Chappelle special searing hourlong takedown of trans cashier who forgot to smile at him (www.thebeaverton.com)

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[-] carnimoss@lemmings.world 12 points 10 months ago

Chappelle does this because of something people are afraid to talk about because of the identity of the person doing this. An easier way to understand it is identity politics. Didn't he admit that trans people get more shit than black people now? They don't even dog whistle us. People can talk about outright killing trans people and incite violence without any consequences. And it's not like the police like us either.

[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I always find it funny that people forget the whole story of the Closer in his special, where he took his trans friend and comedian Daphne on tour, effectively giving her, arguably the single largest possible chance a comedian could have?

Don't want to spoil it but damn, that story broke me.

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[-] ArtieShaw@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

So, random Chapelle Fact: For the past couple of years Dave Chapelle has had a 24/7 police presence on his property. I assume he's hired them off-duty, but they sit in a county sheriff's car near his front gate. I assume someone made a credible threat to him for some reason, but don't know full details.

Timing-wise, the police presence started close to the whole "Dave opposed affordable housing in his neighborhood" story - which was repeated enough times to make it into the popular consciousness, but also pretty much untrue.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] ArtieShaw@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

I'm reasonably local to the area and watched that fiasco play out over the course of several years. I'd wager I have a few more facts than you do.

I'm not a fan of Chappelle's work in the last 10-12 years, so just throwing that out there.

The housing might appear to have been affordable to anyone not familiar with the region, but it was a basic bitch suburban sprawl neighborhood that would have been sold at market prices. Oh, and those market prices are already 1.5 to 2 times the local average because it was located in Yellow Springs. As a concession to local sensibilities, the developer offered to donate 1-acre of out of that 30-acre corn field to a local charity connected to one of the town's councilors. That one acre would have been a mix of park land and affordable housing.

There were a mix of proposals at different times, but many of the "affordable" solutions were clearly untenable. The example I gave was the final form. All were shitty.

I also remember that this corn field was offered for sale at around 1.5 million shortly after Chapelle purchased his adjoining property, but years before serious talk of development. It was a grift/extortion from the moment he moved there.

For context, Chappelle's house on 5 acres cost $750,000. That same house would probably have been half of that if it were anywhere else in the region. Affordable housing in that town is the topic of intense discussion, but nothing has looked even remotely as dodgey as that particular proposal.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm reasonably local to the area and watched that fiasco play out over the course of several years. I'd wager I have a few more facts than you do.

And yet here you are, spinning a six paragraph yarn and not providing a single citation to support of your claims and ignoring anyone that did provide sources countering your nonsense. So, I’d wager that you do not have any facts whatsoever.

[-] Catoblepas 13 points 10 months ago

Damn, that’s a lot of words to write to derail a thread in order to paint him as a victim instead of focusing on the hate he spreads to make millions of dollars.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 months ago

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and take your claims at face value. Now I have a question for you: how does that change the fact that this person used their scads of cash to overrule a (mostly) democratic process?

If his complaints had been the same as yours, and he had said “this housing isn’t affordable and it should be,” I think a lot of people would have agreed with him. But his objections were not the same as yours, he just didn’t want to share space with anyone but he wasn’t willing to just buy the land himself.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’d wager I have more facts than you do

Doubtful since you claimed he didn’t say something that you could’ve found with a 3s search on Google. Sources wouldn’t hurt either.

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[-] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The new special is hilarious but no one will watch it because of the last one. He addresses it in the first 5 minutes.

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[-] HonorIsDead@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Chappelle is past his peak. He's still funny but it's been a steady decline since his return imo.

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