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Netflix decides every single day what content it does and does not want to show. They can decide not to platform hate speech, and the public if free to express the opinion that hate speech should not be platformed. 

And who decides when something has crossed the line

This!!!!

I feel this says a lot more about you than it does about Gadsby and Nanette. Yikes, pal.

Reasonable minds should occupy themselves with something better to do than debate the legitimacy of trans people.

Great, Gadsby!

Same with C.K.

There are obviously calls to remove it from Netflix, which is hard to see as anything but censorship.

Funny how we laugh at white people who say “but some of my best friends are black.” Dave Chappelle spends a huge hunk of his special saying essentiallybut some of my best friends are trans” and it’s supposed to make everything OK.

I’m going to start using this argument structure everywhere:

Also known as the “Elon Musk Effect”.

Dammit, kitwid figured out how media works!  Close it up, we’re heading out!

No, I think Gadsby’s name is great to drag into this conversation, especially when noting the complaints that her special “had no jokes” and was a “glorified TED talk,” while those same detractors come to Chappelle’s defense if anyone insinuates that The Closer was more of an Andy Rooney “things are changing and I

So’s Chappelle.

Dude’s spamming me with replies now.

It was never a problem for Henry Rollins. I wonder what the difference is?

I would say watch her special “Douglas” on Netflix. It will counter some of Dave’s numbers.

Yeah. Not to Godwin’s law this shit, but there were negative depictions of Jews in media and popular discussion for centuries leading up to the Holocaust. Media obviously reflects and reinforces our beliefs and prejudices and that can lead to more violence over time. I don’t really get how anyone could disagree with

Been a lot of assholes showing theirs past few years. And yes, you can blame Trump. It’s scary how many of the Maga talking points are coming from them.

Dime store “nihilists” are always fun.