Also, while we all have innate tendencies, your personality is often heavily shaped by outside feedback. If you’re at a certain level of rich and famous, people usually stop telling you you’re being an asshole to your face. And once it seemingly has no consequences, it’s easy to keep doing it. It’s hard to imagine…

“I’m sure she’s a great mother.”

No, thats not how funny people are forged.

How exactly is the existence, humanity and dignity of transgender women Dave’s tragedy to laugh at? 

“Finding catharsis through mockery and abuse of the vulnerable” is generally called bullying, and using the language of victimhood to defend it is certainly a choice.

It’s mindblowing that a guy who quit his show because he felt the audience was laughing with the racism and not at it has now thrown in his lot exclusively with the people that drove him to quit in the first place.

That he quit as one of the most celebrated comics of his era, and returned to comedy as generic boomer…

Yeah I’d give Dave a bit of leeway on the jokes. That’s not to say they aren’t offensive to people. Heck I watched the special and at times looked at the audience and could tell from their faces they were, at the very least, unimpressed with them. That’s jokes; some work, some don’t.

Dont you bring Community into this

Chapelle seems to be playing the Jerry Seinfeld card. Jerry said he couldn’t do college shows a few years back. What Jerry failed to realize, is those college kids’ parents found him funny. Of course he wasn’t going to do college shows, ever. He plays charity and award shows for millionaires (at least). Chapelle is…

The wild thing is that another cis dude felt as though his perspective mattered more than, say, any trans people. Like, my dude, you wouldn’t accept a white guy telling you whether something was racist when a lot of Black folks were saying it was, why on Earth can’t you figure that same thing out when it’s about…

I hate learning how stupid so many celebrities are.

You hit the nail on the head.

A local (black, queer) author recently wrote "If Dave Chappelle is what cancelled looks like, I hope I'm next."

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. 

This gets right at the heart of people like Chappelle or Gervais who constantly bang the drum of “comedians should be edgy.” If that’s true, expressing a majority opinion about a minority is the opposite of edgy!! Transphobia and homophobia are not the edge. If anything they were saying actually was edgy or new, it…

I keep seeing people say this, then utterly fail to provide that context. Wanna be the one who breaks that streak?

I always laugh at the hypocrites that hate on others who don’t think exactly like they do are also the same people who “champion” tolerance and inclusivity.

What context could be added to supporting JK Rowling and proclaiming himself “team TERF” that would make it acceptable?

And yes, the paradox of tolerance requires that we be intolerant of intolerance to maximize tolerance. You’re not exactly breaking new ground by saying “so much for the tolerant Left!”

Jimmy Fallon makes Jimmy Kimmel seem like he’s got gravitas fairly seeping from every pore.

Madonna seems less like the icon she should be and more like a thirsty TikTok teen. I enjoy some of her music, but I’ve always found her personality incredibly grating. Plus she likes to whine about people copying her, but she conveniently leaves out all the shit she rips off.