I think the funniest hours I’ve seen/heard over the past few years, off the top of my head, have been from Michelle Wolf, Ali Wong, Anthony Jeselnik, Roy Wood, Jr., Tiffany Hadish...

No surprise you’re not willing to stand up for a black woman.

It is just so weird to me when people go to bat so hard defending the powerful.  Like, seriously, what do you get out of this?

I mean, by your definition, he isn’t canceled now.  His past specials generated similar backlash from the trans community.  

I didn’t say it was a reason not to joke about something. But it’s also an understandable reaction of a group of people to criticize jokes being made at their expense. Chapelle could just accept that some trans people did not like some of his past jokes about trans people (and even Chapelle admits that some of his…

She’s dead. She can’t speak for herself. She was able to give consent for Dave to talk about her in Sticks & Stones, so fine.  She wasn’t able to give consent for her story to be used in this special; Dave used it anyway.  She wasn’t able to give consent for her story to be used to attack the trans community and imply…

The trans community disagreed with her support of Chapelle. Are we no longer allowed to disagree with people? Is that what this country is coming to?

When trans people criticize Chapelle, they are subject to bullying from the anti-trans community. What is Chapelle doing for those people? Do those people’s kids get a trust fund too? Or is it only people who praise and defend Chapelle?

The bulk of this special was dedicated to attacking the LGBTQ community, in particular trans people.

I’m not sure what you’re missing. If you get that there are offensive jokes, how do you not get what people are protesting? They’re protesting jokes they think are offensive.

Okay, his past specials generated similar controversy, that is what I’m referring to.

I’m not. It made me feel gross and sad. I’d have been better off watching Killin’ Em Softly again. I also don’t think watching it is a prerequisite to having an opinion. Unsurprisingly, as it turns out, the things he’s quoted as saying are things he actually said!

I don’t have a Netflix special am I being censored?

Love this pro-authority turn you’re making. You know, they say boot on your tongue is an acquired taste. 

Do people who don’t like what other people say have a right to speak their mind about that, or is it only people who say potentially offensive things who have free speech rights?

Dave Chapelle was supposedly first cancelled after he made transphobic jokes in a Netflix special years ago.  That’s what I’m referring to.  

This was leaked for a reason, because Netflix was, and continues to be, disingenuous about Chapelle. Netflix certainly had a right to terminate this employee (whether she leaked data or not, unless she had an employment contract), but they weren’t COMPELLED to (anymore than she was compelled to leak this data). Netflix…

When Dave Chapelle spreads harmful lies about trans people, those lies don’t become non-harmful just because trans people who are offended don’t watch the special.  Most people, believe it or not, actually do know how to not consume things they don’t like, but it’s also the case that sometimes things are harmful…

it never ceases to amaze me how much people who have nothing to say insist on talking

Congratulations on your ability to distinguish the headline of an article from the body of an article.