People who keep bringing up “context” as a way to either defend Chappelle’s comments or at least downplay their severity don’t ever seem to want to actually shine any light on said “context”.

My god. It’s amazing to me that you had the awareness to recognize that double-digit people have identified an opinion you shared as bigoted, but you haven’t managed to find the common denominator.

“I’d argue that Dave didn’t understand transgenderism, a description could apply to a large percentage of Americans (me, included).”

I would tend to agree that Chappelle doesn’t “understand” being transgender.

That Netflix statement is almost worst that Chappelle’s comments and it’s just pure ignorance when it comes to how people’s speech against a marginalized community manifest into larger problems like violence.

“I guess I just have a hard time accepting that violence against trans people is perpetuated by Dave Chappelle’s set.”

The core underlying thing that perpetuates violence against trans people is the ignorant belief that their existence is invalid—that they are people just pretending to be something they are not.

“ACTUALLY THE HATE SPEECH BRINGS VISIBILITY TO THE ISSUE!”

“but why should a young, healthy plague rat care about this disease?”

“The unintended consequences will be so severe, likely a mass exodus of great cops all across this Commonwealth”

No querio.

No, I’m not interested in a gilded lily version of Popeye’s chicken sandwich, thank you.

Right? How the fuck is CFA getting credit for putting a pickle on a sandwich.

Based on the video, I think it’s difficult to tell if he was speeding up and aiming for the protesters or not, especially since he swerved back into the lanes of traffic, rather than continuing over to the shoulder where there was a much larger group of pedestrians.

“dressing up as a fantasy race to be the same thing as pretending to be a black person for the purpose of making fun of black people”

We re-watched A Goofy Movie a couple weeks ago, and I realize that it skews towards a slightly older audience, but the entire premise of the movie is that Goofy takes Max on the fishing trip because the principal of Max’s school warned that he was going to get the electric chair. WTF!

The reason for the “potential intoxicants” is likely because for a preliminary autopsy report, the labs on any substances in his system haven’t come back yet, so they don’t know if he was under the influence or not.

It truly is a blandemic.

Admittedly, it’s a fine line. Which is really why I think a simple change in the way Roman responded to the question would have been plenty sufficient.

“Will we need fine print in all cookbooks so that no one is offended?”

“Do you expect everyone to acknowledge all their influences, or only when it’s white chefs and their inspiration is from a non-white culture?”

“a recipe they made up by themselves?”