For what it’s worth, the people I see gleefully submitting multi-paragraph defenses of Chappelle in comment sections these days appear to be mostly het white men. Joe Rogan types flooding the internet with what they think are formal philosophical deconstructions of wokeness. Not that they aren’t allowed to have their…

“Wokeness” is just their latest branding of “political correctness”. While the name may change, the line of bullshit stays the same.

Honestly, I see all the complaining about “wokeness” as childish outrage from grown men/women that can’t accept a world where their “jokes” are not accepted. 

I mean, if you ask an American about the idea of American Exceptionalism, we’re most likely to talk about putting some people on the moon or being on the “winning” side in some wars or, like, some inventions Americans came up with (usually by stealing them from Black folks or the unphotogenically poor).

Maybe that’s why Sean Connery never married a Scottish woman; they wouldn’t put up with his bullshit.

Michael Jackson is the real modern test of this— even in otherwise for lack of a better word “woke” spaces that would never screen a Woody Allen movie or play Believe I can fly, etc.

Probably because he had been on record several times saying that hitting women was fine.

If you read the linked article he was attempting to clarify & expand on his original 1965 statements about commiting violence against female partners.  It isn’t about men and it doesn’t have to be.  

Kind of a lukewarm to cold take, honestly.

I doubt the women and children who were getting beaten accepted it though. 

Hitting women was never a “norm.” Men got away with it at different points in history, but it was never a norm. I’m sure if you asked domestic abuse victims back then, which no one did, they’d tell you they'd rather physical violence not be so widely accepted. 

That you got through this article and still came to this conclusion says way more about how insufferable you are. 

I’m reminded of a quote from a Marian Keyes book ‘Short and stupid,’ she summed-up. ‘They like that. That’s their favourite.’

This article and some of the comments remind me of the reaction some of my classmates had to the girl who was ranked second in my year at school. People she barely knew hated her guts because how dare she be so intelligent and academically successful, while also being conventionally attractive and not socially…

She was asked about it.  She didn’t all of a sudden say hey Howard Stern, guess my IQ?  Man, a lot of these comments are just like where is all this hate coming from?  No one cares about your negative reception on someone being smart.  You’d think more people would care more about that than their looks or what they’re…

Cool story, except that Kate wasn’t bragging, she was literally just answering a question *Howard asked her* about whether she had her IQ tested. Unless of course your definition of bragging is women honestly answering questions men ask them, how dare the bitch.

Jesus some of the comments here have a whiff of misogyny. Why should she be humble about her intelligence?? Most men certainly aren’t.

I mean, Oppression Olympics aside, there are also people who are Black and LGBT-and Dave’s ongoing beef with the LGBT community seems predicated on the idea that the two groups are mutually exclusive.

The opinions of people criticizing him. 

He does have the freedom to say what he wants and he did say it. Freedom to say what you want doesn’t mean there are no consequences or opinions.