Dave Chappelle: “I would like to apologize to… Nah, I’m just f-in’ with ya"

[Cssomeone 1,643]

Another day, another Dave Chappelle thread 

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4 hours ago, luigil said:

Did anybody that’s criticizing him on here watch his special? His whole point was that he can make jokes and clown black people and basically say whatever about black people, but the MOMENT a joke is made about the LGBTQ+ community, his whole career could be over. It’s ok to joke on black people but not LGBTQ+. There was a message behind the jokes and his message stands true. 

Because his experience as a black person validates his dark humor on the subject.

He isn't LGBTQ and just like his fellow straight comedians literally have like two jokes about trans people and they somehow feel entitled to laughing at trans people despite not having experienced their life threatening issues. 
 

Similar to how it is ok for a gay person to call others ***, or a black person to use the n-word, this has always been about taking charge of hurt and reclaiming the narrative from the oppressors.

I suggest you take time to watch this video and get more clarity on what dark humor truly means.

 

[Oyster 2,458]

Good for him. He’s a comedian. People are way too sensitive. Looks weak af 

[magichat 519]

I love him.  

[Shipper 13,000]

He is a comedian. Comedy has always been political commentary since hundreds of years ago and it remains as such until now. We can't censor everyone to be in league of our own views.

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5 hours ago, luigil said:

Did anybody that’s criticizing him on here watch his special? His whole point was that he can make jokes and clown black people and basically say whatever about black people, but the MOMENT a joke is made about the LGBTQ+ community, his whole career could be over. It’s ok to joke on black people but not LGBTQ+. There was a message behind the jokes and his message stands true. 

yup. So true. Just like Da Baby killing a man who happened to be black, no one cancelled him, he said smthg homophobic he gets cancelled. Fake wokes

[Bling 31,289]

5 hours ago, luigil said:

Did anybody that’s criticizing him on here watch his special? His whole point was that he can make jokes and clown black people and basically say whatever about black people, but the MOMENT a joke is made about the LGBTQ+ community, his whole career could be over. It’s ok to joke on black people but not LGBTQ+. There was a message behind the jokes and his message stands true. 

He IS black though, he's not LGBTQ+

So cringe 

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I am not trans but I watched his special and I did not see the part where he was attacking lgbt people. He made a ton of jokes but I found everything boring, not offensive or harming.

In fact, his story in the end about the transwoman that killed herself showed that he doesn't hate trans people.

I tell my friends that being gay doesn't define me and I am normal like everyone else in every other way. Being accepted in such a society means you will now be added to the million other things we make fun of in the name of comedy. 

If someone who actually watched it can tell me specific parts that are literally hateful towards lgbt people, please let me know and I will change my opinion. For now, I have no idea why he is getting so much hate. 

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7 hours ago, bionic said:

Kathy Griffin stood her ground and got cancelled for it

Dave can rot

No she didn’t 

she apologized initially and then unapologized when trump started being in the last year of his presidency

 

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I don't agree with the way he punches down at the LGBTQ+ community in his jokes, but I'm also getting so sick and tired of the so-called left being OBSESSED with punishing people for saying shitty things. Too many of us have made an actual hobby out of gassing each other up online and obsessing over how much we hate these problematic people.

Humans are not a perfect algorithm spewing out opinions and viewpoints that you 100% agree with. Dave Chapelle is absolutely wrong in his statements but like... what's supposed to happen now to get everyone to move on? Does he need to be burned at the stake or something?

Like... he's an a**hole. We get it 

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36 minutes ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

No she didn’t 

she apologized initially and then unapologized when trump started being in the last year of his presidency

 

Actually, she unapologized pretty quickly. The "Laugh Your Head Off" Tour was started, like 2 months after the picture. From Wikipedia "In November 2017, she appeared on Skavlan, where she said, 'I take that apology back by the way. I take it back big time.'"

But more so, even if she didn't unapologize until 2020, then she was cancelled for not standing her ground. So...is that the moral? That we should only cancel people who don't stand by the things they say or do?

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When you are making jokes at the expense of trans people, where the very basis of who they are is the butt of the joke, there comes a time of reckoning and a call to action to "do better" and address the fact that these jokes are symptomatic of a larger cultural attitude that trans people deserve to be humiliated and degraded. The trans community is still incredibly vulnerable, despite making strides toward larger acceptance: "In 2020, HRC tracked a record number of violent fatal incidents against transgender and gender non-conforming people. A total of 44 fatalities were tracked by HRC, marking 2020 as the most violent year on record since HRC began tracking these crimes in 2013."

So now, we are "course correcting." Anything that could be deemed even slightly offensive and "problematic" is called out. And it all gets wrapped up in the larger conversations on being woke, cancel culture, etc. It's all well intentioned but it is extreme and not nuanced. I saw Dave's show, the whole show, and I liked what he was ultimately saying, despite cringing several times. He raised a lot of points about the disparity between how black people are treated vs how white LGBTQ and women are treated, though they are all marginalized. His closing message of empathy was very touching. I still like Dave. And he is acting like I would expect him to act. Tough and awkward conversations like this are good. We should all work to try and find the humanity within each other as hard as that is. And that's the message I took away from Dave's show. 

[SevenWonder 4,277]

I finally watched the special. Just to see what the fuss was about. Tbh? First, he was MUCH harder on gays and women than he was on trans. I'm not easily offended, and none of his "shocking" comments offended me in the least. He basically just hates everyone (well, mostly whites) besides black people. Coolio. And yawn. Still, he's allowed to think whatever he thinks.

But what did offend me? How shockingly unfunny the whole hour plus was. And he's always made me crack up in the past. Their was no incite. No clever witticisms. No hysterical revelations. Just been-there-heard-that complaining.

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4 hours ago, POP2 said:

Y’all are too sensitive. He’s a comedian. 

He’s a comedian but you can tell he’s really bitter about trans people. That type of comedy is only effective for people who A) don’t give a **** about trans people or B) are ignorant of their struggles. A comedy that relies on ignorance. 

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I’m actually really over this though. He can claim it’s “just comedy” but it is inherently political and he’s just galvanizing the transphobes behind him the more we criticize him. He’s dedicating A LOT of time towards the trans issues because he wants to make the divisive point of black vs. trans issues.