#anti Dave chappelle

[icedsodapop]

I think it's time to call Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais for what they really are: anti-trans activists.

#transphobia #anti ricky gervais #anti dave chappelle #fuck comedians

[alfredopizzaluver151]

Dave Chappelle trying to imply the only people booing Musk at the show were the poor people is so sad. Dave has really gone downhill after his transphobic crap.

#twitter #anti elon musk #anti dave chappelle #chris rock

[sakebytheriver]

What the hell is wrong with this man? He's really out here calling peaceful protestors who just want him to stop being openly and vitriolically transphobic, transgender lunatics as if the only people in that crowd were trans people and not also cis people who think he's a fucking bigot.

And now the man is going full on anti-masker while backsliding himself into the Ronald Reagan 80s gay AIDS panic with monkeypox, like why has Dave Chappelle let himself and his legacy become this?

Like buddy, bro, my guy, why the fuck not? Why the fuck can you not stop writing jokes about trans people? Nobody asked you to start, nobody is forcing you at gunpoint to be a giant fucking transphobic bigot, you could literally just fucking stop. You are doing this to yourself! Just fucking stop it's not hard, it's very easy not to tell transphobic jokes, I do it everyday of my life, I find it quite easy and enjoyable, you should try it sometime, sir

#ignore me #dave chappelle #anti dave chappelle #tw transphobia #politics

[rorylum]

so with conservatives cancelling stuff are they going to cancel dave chapelle. I mean some of the stuff he's done in the past may not be things they like. Of course if that negativley affected his carrer I wouldn't feel too bad for him. He's rich so he could disappear again or just get less money for a bit and be fine.

#anti conservative #pro lgbtq+ #anti dave chappelle

[gwydionmisha]

#Anti-LGBTQIA+ #JK Rowling #Dave Chappelle #DaBaby #Eminem #Ricky Gervais

[hyperfixasian]

Any time someone wants to bring up that “cancel culture” exists in any capacity, stfu. Celebrities will do or say whatever they want and still have fans, a platform, and audience. Wouldn’t be such a big deal if the celebrities themselves didn’t make themselves out to be big weenies that can’t stand criticism when they themselves are going “why can’t I say anything I want?” Don’t care for Dave Chapelle’s newer stuff either way but it’s the way he was doing the “woe is me” for being offensive and unfunny.

#my stuff #anti-cancel culture #transphobes dni #dave chappelle fans dni #snl #celebrities are not people

[travsd]

Dave Chappelle: American

Dave Chappelle turns 50 today. Chappelle’s Show premiered 20 years ago. Even mentioning his name here will likely inspire paroxysms of fury from many. I hope most people will be rational enough to read what this post actually contains, for the headline implies nothing beyond what it literally states. This is a complicated country. Jefferson Davis was an American before he wasn’t. Donald Trump is…

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#African-American #anti-semitic #anti-trans #background #black #Chappelle #color #comedian #controversy #Dave Chappelle #family #religion #Show

[notgoingwell]

#vid recs #echo chamberlain #controversy #jk rowling #jkr #anti jkr #lgbtq #lgbtq community #transphobia #trans community #transgender #hogwarts legacy #dave chappelle #maya forstater #gender #gender identity #gender ideology #trans #video essay #analysis #debate #Youtube

[vibrantlifeboringdeath]

between Mulaney entrapping an unsuspecting audience into Dave Chapelle's bigoted bullshit, and Netflix releasing a new Ricky Gervais netflix special which doubles down on being a transphobic cunt for no reason other than to attract controversy, now seems like a good week to suggest that we stop letting Cis Men be funny for a living. I'd happily trade in The Office (the bad one) and the Tom Jones Diner bit to not have to be confronted by a worldview that leads to hatred, harrassment, violence and murder and be told its just a joke thanks :)

#like I do not care what these people feel in their heart about trans people. #theyre expressing - or platforming - the same talking points being shared by the people who want me dead #and the fact that its a 'joke' has no impact on how safe I feel around the people who are lapping it up #its the same talking points that make me decide in a split second whether or not I need to leave a room #or reconsider whether or not I can confide in a person #dave chappelle has stated his anti-trans intentions before #ricky gervais just enjoys being a cunt. But the same people are listening. The knock on effect is the same

[icedsodapop]

I would honestly like Mo Amer a lot more if it werent for the fact that he's friendly with Dave Chappelle and other douchebag comedians

#mo amer #anti dave chappelle #transphobia #dont have heroes guys #fuck comedians

[reportwire]

Dave Chappelle's 'SNL' monologue sparks backlash as being antisemitic | CNN

Dave Chappelle’s ‘SNL’ monologue sparks backlash as being antisemitic | CNN

CNN  —  Dave Chappelle’s comments about the Jewish community during his “Saturday Night Live” monologue are being slammed as antisemitic. Anti-Defamation League chief executive officer Jonathan Greenblatt took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize the comedian and the NBC late night show. “We shouldn’t expect @DaveChappelle to serve as society’s moral compass, but disturbing to see @nbcsnl not…

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#Anti-Semitism #arts and entertainment #celebrities #dave chappelle #discrimination #jewish people #minority and ethnic groups #racism and racial discrimination #societal issues #society #television comedies #television programming

[unpopularly-opinionated]

There is yet again more clowns on the internet dogpiling on Dave Chappelle for...let me see here, what was it this time, oh right...denouncing anti-Semitism....

Must be a day ending in -y where comedy is yet again being attacked for doing it’s job of taking serious and complex issues and conveying them through entertainment which is palatable to a wider audience, thus normalizing a message, in this case that anti-Semitism is wrong.

I groan for the post-comedy world we’re heading towards where the only allowed comedy is ‘safe’ comedy which has zero voice and entertainment value.

Related: Friendly reminder, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a complete joke of an organization whose sole purpose is being the lone voice speaking for the mob rule of Twitter and other various outlets. Their methodology for determining who or what is “hateful” consists of whoever is currently trending on Twitter for some controversial reason, whether true or not, and by no means should they ever be taken seriously, nor as the sole-arbiter of who is considered to be “hateful”.

#random rant #Dave Chappelle #comedy #anti-semitism #activism #ADL #Anti-Defamation League

[rorylum]

I was wondering why the dave chapelle attack kind of disapeared. Well the attacker was a right wing maga rapper. That kind of explains why the daily wire and various other conservative sources don't report on it.

#anti conservative #pro lgbtq+ #pro trans #dave chappelle

[communistkenobi]

I think a large problem with how we got to this stage of "man is gender neutral" discourse is that a lot of queer people refuse to engage with feminism. I've been seeing it brought up a lot recently, but it's true. Someone who doesn't see a problem with referring to a trans woman as "dude" probably also doesn't believe in patriarchy to begin with. We need to start doing feminism 101 on tumblr again.

I think this is true and I also think this issue extends to the fact that white liberal queerness is the societally accepted conception of lgbtq issues broadly - the fact that pride flags litter the windowsills of small businesses and banks, that lgbtq merchandise is its own market, that western conceptions of gayness and especially transness are the internationally imposed norm (eg, we are pathological exceptions to cishetero society and should be accepted on the grounds that we are scientifically proven to be legitimate by medical and psychiatric institutions, presented with an awkward flair of “okay so we’re not saying being transgender is a mental illness, but it is caused by a mental illness” + framing of gay people as “they’re just like straight people! they can get married and have children just like you!”). Many many queer people of colour have pointed out how much this predominate western framing of lgbtq identity as a “white person thing” (partially because white queer people are just as racist as non-queer white people, also because of aforementioned western imperialism) puts them at odds with their own communities, giving people in those communities a “rational” reason to oppose lgbtq rights on the grounds of resisting western imperialism. Israel’s pinkwashing is a particularly instructive and stark example of this, positioning lgbtq freedom as being contingent on genociding and destroying Palestine - this doesn’t mean it’s okay to be homophobic obviously, but this sort of imperial imposition of queerness as part of the package of western domination creates the conditions for “rationally opposing” lgbtq rights and equality within colonized communities and ultimately causes intersecting levels of harm for lgbtq people in those communities. You can read decolonizing trans/gender 101 by b binaohan if you want more on the subject, I’ve only read the intro so far but it was very instructive (thank you @/molsno for spreading this link around! - she also has a post with a bunch of transfeminist writings if you want more of that). There's also this video by FD Signifier about Dave Chappelle's transphobia that talks about anti-Blackness in white trans/queer spaces and the intense homophobia and transphobia Black lgbtq people face as a result of this that I found insightful if you want to listen to something instead

ANYWAY, all to say - I think the larger problem is that queerness in western contexts (which tumblr is firmly situated in) is overwhelmingly white and liberal, which means that even if these spaces were to incorporate feminist frameworks in their analysis of oppression, they would be incorporated as liberal feminist frameworks, which are fundamentally transmisogynistic and racist, and fundamentally attached to the imperial project of the west (I recently read this article called Beyond the Coloniality of Gender by Alex Adamson discussing some of the problems with western feminism. they demonstrate this through a case study on western feminist objections to genital cutting in certain African countries + analysis of decolonial trans and intersex feminisms more broadly - if you click "show document" in the upper right hand corner of the page I linked it allows you to access the full article).

I’ve always struggled to articulate the exact issue we're discussing, because at a certain point a lack of knowledge is not to be blamed -the larger issue at hand is that the western political + economic apparatus has incorporated queer assimilation into its project. This does not mean that queer people in the west are safe from homophobia or transphobia (see: current transphobic hysteria across North America and UK in particular), but it does mean that white western queer people have incredible political and rhetorical leverage to dominate these conversations using white liberal analytical frameworks, which can only lead to transmisogynist and white supremacist conclusions about the nature of oppression. I think the only way out of these path-dependent "everyone is oppressed by patriarchy" conversations is a larger decolonial political and social project - part of which necessarily incorporates feminist analysis, but feminist analyses that are decolonial, marxist, and transfeminist in nature, and the only way these frameworks can be comprehensively adopted is through a larger decolonial turn

#asks #even old new york was once new amsterdam #book club

[designersophisticate]

John Mulaney doesn't owe you people shit.

All of you who made him your fantasy boyfriend and got butthurt when he turned out to be a mortal human being that fell off the pedestal you put him on need to wake up and smell the Folgers. He doesn't owe you an explanation for why his marriage failed. Or when it failed. Or when he started dating Olivia Munn. Or why he has a child when he said before he didn't want kids. Just because he makes you laugh on the Internet doesn't mean you know him. You know what he allows you to know, and no more. The fact that his on-stage persona was appealing to you means nothing. It was a persona. Your parasocial relationships are your own problem. Don't visit them on other people.

As for having Dave Chappelle open for him that one time, that was a stupid move on his part. Not just because Chappelle hates trans people but because Chappelle is an unfunny hack who hates everyone. His jokes about everybody are revolting. I don't think Mulaney is transphobic or racist or anti-Semitic or anything else of the like. I think he exhibited poor judgment, and that's it.

I hope he continues on the road of sobriety, and I hope this next stage of his career succeeds. I hope his personal life is successful. I don't kick a man when he's down or trying to stand back up.

#john mulaney

[mariacallous]

It’s telling that both Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais decided to end 2023 by releasing specials in which their comedy pivots to poking fun at the disabled. Could they be more obvious about finding new ways to punch down than targeting people physically unable to fight back?

In a false promise near the opening of his brand-new special and seventh for Netflix, The Dreamer, Chappelle boasts: “Tonight, I’m doing all handicapped jokes,” because “well, they’re not as organized as the gays, and I love punching down.”

Similarly, Gervais decides to have a bit of fun at how we’ve decided as a society to say “disabled” instead of “handicapped” and what that says about us, and suggests further in his special Armageddon, released on Christmas Day, that he’d mock Make-A-Wish kids if given the chance to make videos for them.

And, of course, both men take yet more cracks at the trans community.

Early in The Dreamer, Chappelle tells the audience trans people make him feel like he has to go along with them pretending, as if they’re method acting like Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman: “If you came here to this show tonight thinking that I’m gonna make fun of those people again, you’ve come to the wrong show,” only to keep going back on his word.

He says he hoped to “repair” his relationship with the LGTBQ+ community – by writing a play for them in which a black trans woman only identifies as the N-word to trip up liberals. He also jokes that if he went to jail in California, he’d identify as a woman so he could tell the other inmates to “suck my lady dick.”

But it’s all just jokes, right? Can’t we just take a joke? Have we lost our sense of humor? Or have they?

Earlier this month, we lost two pillars not just of the comedy community but of our American community writ, as Norman Lear and Tommy Smothers stood taller than most anyone and everyone else in television, standing up to the establishment and protesting the powers that be for the sake of civil rights and humanity.

Now we’re left with Chappelle and Gervais—two titans in terms of Netflix ratings and paychecks—who are fighting for… the right to utter slurs onstage and tell already marginalized people that their existence is a joke for reasons that are nearly impossible to divine. Especially when there’s so much in the world to talk about right now, that they’ve chosen anti-trans rights as their comedy cause célèbre is dispiriting. As Mae Martin said in their 2023 Netflix special, Sap: “Big multimillionaire comedians in their stand-up specials are, like, taking shots and punching down at a time when trans rights are so tenuous and slipping backwards.”

Lear and Smothers used their clout on TV to speak truth to power about America’s involvement in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, the hypocrisy of religion, racism, abortion, homosexuality and civil rights. While great trans comedians such as River Butcher and Jaye McBride resorted to releasing their stand-up specials straight to YouTube this year, which famous straight comedians can you recall sticking up for the rights of trans people in America?

It feels so frustrating to sit and watch comedians with the stature of Chappelle and Gervais devote so much of their time and energy to bullying the LGBTQ+ community when they could be doing anything else on stage. And then they have the temerity to question us, the audience, for not laughing with them.

For his part, Gervais willingly misdefines and misuses “woke” by suggesting, “if woke now means being a puritanical, authoritarian bully who gets people fired for an honest opinion or even a fact, then no, I’m not woke. Fuck that.” Is Nazism or transphobia an honest opinion that shouldn’t get you fired? He then claims in his closing bit that “all laughter’s good,” a concept that would be news to 2005-era Chappelle when he cut ties with Comedy Central precisely because he could hear racism in the laughs during a taping of Chappelle’s Show.

In his Grammy-nominated lecture to students at his alma mater, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, What’s In A Name?, Chappelle claimed: “The more you say I can’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it. It has nothing to do with what you’re saying I can’t say. It has everything to do with my right and my freedom of artistic expression.”

But that’s not comedy, either—much like Gervais’ admission in his special that as a university student, his idea of a joke was calling his mother and pranking her by saying he was hospitalized and potentially blind. Gervais said her mom could’ve had a heart attack, but in his mind, he remembers it now as “they could take a fucking joke, right?”

At least Sam Jay, in her 2023 HBO special Salute Me Or Shoot Me, wrestles with her conscience and moral compass over the use of certain words in her act and concludes that having empathy for others is key. “How do the rest of us get here? I don’t know… I’m not going to pretend that I have the answers,” Jay says, adding: “So we’re doing things like we’re policing words, but we’re not policing behavior.”

Anthony Jeselnik, who has built his comedy career on brandishing himself as an offensive caricature of a comedian, told fellow comedian and podcaster Theo Von earlier this year that too many stand-ups would rather get into trouble by saying the wrong thing instead of focusing on their job and saying funny things.

“People think — oh, as a comic your job is to get in trouble. But they don’t want to get yelled at. It’s like, it’s OK to make people mad, but they don’t want any push back. And I think that’s wrong,” Jeselnik said. “As a comedian, you want to make people laugh. This is a quote attributed to Andy Warhol that I love: ‘Art is getting away with it.’ You know, if you put out a special and everyone’s pissed, like, you didn’t get away with it. You know. You need to make everyone laugh that they’re like, ‘Yeah, he talked about some fucked up stuff, but we’re all happy.’ That’s art. Otherwise, you’re just a troll.”

Kliph Nesteroff, a comedy historian whose newest book is Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars, similarly told me last month that some while comedians see themselves sometimes as “philosophers” he believes they are “betraying their job description because you’re supposed to make people laugh, and philosophers are supposed to philosophize.”

Comedians may claim they can’t joke about anything anymore, but they joke about more now than ever before. The real problem with stand-up today is that too many comedians would rather kick people when they’re down, then lecture us on how we’re too sensitive for not laughing about it.

When Chappelle, Gervais or their acolytes have to incessantly explain that their jokes are just jokes, then they cease to be great comedians—or even comedians at all.