This is what I’ve pretty much boiled it down to. Go back just 10 or so years and what comedians said at a show didn’t really reach as many people as they do now. And now everyone has access to a platform that amplifies their voices. So, whereas before, all comedians really heard was people laughing at everything they…

they weren’t suspended for speaking against his special, they were suspended for crashing a high-level meeting they weren’t invited to.

The fact that Chapelle is indeed a great comedian is actually what makes his behavior worse. He is perfectly capable of making great comedy without horrible and harmful jokes towards the LGBTQI+ community, but he choose not to. Because of the power trip, the ego.

Truly original. Absolutely brilliant. I have never heard every straight white guy say this before. Mind blown. Let me know when your 8th grade civics class gets to the paradox of tolerance.

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.

But that's the thing, the vast majority of queer people criticizing him is simply doing an observation, no one expects Netflix to stop booking him, or him becoming less popular, it's more disappointment over this being the hill he's dying on. People are simply expressing themselves, something that wasn't readily…

Hmm…you seem to be conflating Dave Chapelle having a right to his opinion with Dave Chapelle having a right to his opinion being broadcast in a Netflix special. 

Ugh, all Kevin Hart had to do was apologize. Americans would have accepted it. But he’d rather double down on bigotry instead of admit he was wrong.

Netflix specials are like assholes, they all stink and nobody wants to hear about yours.

If a tree falls but doesn’t get a Netflix special, can it truly be said to have fallen?

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…

That thread’s list of receipts is longer than a week’s worth of sales at a CVS.

The funniest joke in The Closer was when he got genuinely emotional about Kevin Hart not getting to host the Oscars because people.. are mean?!

It’s a two way street though.  People like Chappelle who complain about cancel culture, which is really just a complaint about accountability and criticism, also would infringe on the rights of a lot of people to say what they want, and would have opinions they disagree with go away or be erased.

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

As one of my favorite YouTubers once said: when a comedian says “nobody laughs at my jokes anymore because people are too easily offended these days” my mind automatically translates it to “nobody laughs at my jokes anymore”. Another great video essay that perfectly illustrates this phenomenon of joking about…

I figured it had to do with another post.

Wait, so a woman who was naked in a place where women are explicitly allowed to be naked is a sexual predator because she was naked in a place where women are allowed to be naked?  Just as before, I’m having a little trouble following your logic.  

So is it over seatbelts or facemasks. This article and video are all over the place. The video says facemasks but all the passengers have them on and the lady even adjusts it after the tussle to make sure its over her nose. THe beginning of the article talks about seatbelts but then its on to masks again for a…