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Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people (www.independent.co.uk)

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Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.

“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).

It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.

That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.

He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Public cancellation costs people their jobs, livelihoods, and even their lives because a sensitive, loud, and naive sub section of the population felt "triggered" by someone else's right to free speech. This, in turn, makes others wary of the things they say and inhibits their free speech.

People are presumed guilty without due process and are forced to grovel and apologize for otherwise meaningless acts which elevated the anxieties of the super sensitive. This is a witch hunt and has happened before in the US in Salem and during the McCarthy era. Both periods are seen as sore spots in our history.

This is convenient when your opinion is with the majority. It a threat and unsustainable when your opinion is no longer the majority opinion.

"Full stop".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lmao you don't really even know what you are talking about.

"Free speech" means the government itself cannot infringe your speech. It doesn't mean SHIT to anyone who isn't the government. "The court of public opinion" is not a literal court! And it is a group expression of the free speech you love!

You are just bitching about people being deplatformed off of privately owned websites (which isn't what happened to this asshole because he is on fuckin netflix) and you want to be dramatic and make it seem like they are all victims and need to be protected based on your misunderstanding of law