Dave Chappelle's Increasingly Less Righteous Rants

That makes sense. But then again having not experienced this country as a black male I'm pretty sure I can't really weigh in on "how mad should they be?"

Did the AA community shit on Chapelle for his nonsense? I would have been interested in their take

 

black trans folks were very upset. i promise

 

really starting to think he probably had an experience with a trans person at some point in his life that went south on him (figuratively and/or literally) and he's been this way ever since. not every outspoken homophobic evangelical is secretly sucking dick and not every outspoken transphobe has been sexually involved with a trans person but the number for both of those categories is also not zero so...

 

he’s just a dick.

 

This is entirely anecdotal based on limited experience(crowds, comments, etc.) but most cis black folk I’ve seen speak about the subject don’t really side with Dave…but they’re not exactly itching to disagree either.

 

It’s pathetic what he’s become

 

Guy, understandably, was clearly driven insane with boredom living in the Ohio farmlands

 

Or he a clone like big Guwop!!!!

 

Be cool if he just disappeared forever and took that bitch boy white supremacist Rogan with him

 

First they need to give me their money

 

I just watched it. Said essentially the 'kids' can only criticism him if they make a better comedy special about being pro-trans than he did in The Closer. And they won't because he's a "generational talent"

Wild stuff

 

Yikes

 

He's in really tight with a ton of musicians I love and it's frustrating. They've got his name all over Blue Note's festival coming up in Napa and it makes me feel some kinda way :/

 

Yikes. Wasn't even aware of this:

In September 2015, Wayans defended American comedian Bill Cosby from his sexual assault accusations, stating, "It's a money hustle". He continued, saying, "Forty years – listen, how big is his penis that it gives you amnesia for 40 years? If you listen to them talk, they go, 'Well, the first time...' The first time? Bitch, how many times did it happen? Just listen to what they're saying and some of them really is unrape-able. I look at them and go, 'You don't want that. Get outta here.'"[17][18]

 

seeing the first page vs the current page is wild

 

Watching Dave Chappelle turn into outspoken conservative trash sucks.

 

Guy is a fucking loser.

 

Yep. I was a massive fan. Killing Them Softly is I think one of the best comedy specials ever. Chappelle Show was transcendent. At least his act sucks now so it's easy to not pay attention to him

 

This thread started two years ago because he called out Candace Owens for being a right wing puppet. Two years later he is Candace Owens.

 

I know a guy who was pretty normal and went down a similar descent into right wing Looney Toon land over trans stuff. I basically watched it slowly happen via social media. I just don't understand why trans issues get so many people so worked up. Some to the point of it transforming their entire worldview.

 

Even when Talking Head was a left poster he was a transphobe. Wonder if that's a common point of entry

 

It’s the grievance of the month. People who never face oppression feel that they need to invent shit to be mad about. Most will never encounter a trans person but need to feel like anything they disagree with is oppression. Comedians have latched on because they feel their “art form” is being attacked.

It’s sad.

 

I really cant fathom picking NEITHER of these two paths w/r/t trans issues as a cis het male:

1. Who cares, their increased rights don't lessen my rights, I will call them whatever they want to be called. This movement hurts no one.
2. I am a staunch ally and march lockstep with everyone on the sex/gender spectrum

I assume that it irks Chapelle that the trans movement has made good progress in acceptance, recognition, and even positive elevation in the last 5 years due in no small part to social media awareness and gen z just basically being way cooler than any generation before it, when such progress is compared to the relative lack of progress made by the AA community in that same period?

I dunno, I have no right to say, probably.

Just trying to find a theory that explains this lunacy

Hate that he and Louis CK, 2 of my comedy idols, have self-immolated like this. What dildos.

 

With respect to what comedians can and can't say I figure let em say whatever the fuck they want and let the fans decide what they will and won't support. If it costs them fans/money/opportunities that's on them. But I don't support censorship (not saying that you do but some on twitter etc seem kinda horny for censorship)

 

Yea I've never understood caring about what someone does when it doesn't affect me at all. I honestly couldn't care less what someone wants to be called, what they want to wear, who they want to date/sleep with, what religion they follow or if they do at all, etc. I really can't think of why I should give a damn. Do what makes you happy. Lord knows I don't want people telling me not to do what makes me happy. Just do you.

 

Chappelle has some unresolved feelings or something quite simple that explains him targeting such a small, vulnerable part of our society.

is he religious?

 

Believe he’s Muslim. Think he mentions it in his act from time to time.

 

Ah. That makes sense.

 

I’m not sure if he’s practicing but he once called himself a devout Muslim.

the straw that broke the camels back for him with the Chapelle Show was that they were pushing him to do a skit where he was to dress up as a woman.

I’m not sure either of those things apply to how hard he’s leaning into this currently tho. I think Truman hit the nail on the head tbh

 

They don't believe that being trans is a real thing and that people are preying on their kids to make them think they're trans, to ill effect.

They're not right, of course, in any away, but that's why they care. Same as like 30 years ago when more people thought being gay was a choice.

Basically it boils down to fear and ignorance, cultivated by religion and the right wing.

 

Think this is also being a little bit generous towards him. It’s pretty evident he’s full of hatred towards the LGBTQ+ community and it has broken his brain

 

Something I think is mostly true is that people who are left (or liberal, to an extent) are so because of their beliefs, and those who are republican have their beliefs because they are republican. It’s a whole identity that must be adopted. I don’t have to do anything other than check Fox News to find out what my in-laws think on a subject.

 

Yeah this is my read as well. Now he doesn't like them because they criticized him which has activated this insanity of him saying he's being cancelled and generally being an asshole now.

 

Religious nutjobs out there think everyone needs to have the same values they do. They want the freedom to do what they want and say whatever they want, but don't want anyone to be different or have their children learn about anything different(heaven forbid they become tolerant of others). With these people becoming more influential influencing politics and even becoming politicians, I worry about my friends that are gay or trans losing their rights and also who or what groups are next on their list.

 

If someone does anything to my friends or family as far as I’m concerned that gives me and everyone else permission to pay that forward to these zealots.

“When they go low, we go lower” - Mirror Universe Michelle Obama

 

Wait, did he release another special recently? I didn't see anything on Netflix.

 

check oan.com

 

Yes, It was buried on my homepage, they certainly aren't boosting them like they used to.

 

His material isn’t funny.

 

too much Ohio in him.

 

Free market is a motherfucker Dave

 

The free market is actually an instrument of oppression lmaooo