Dave Chappelle embraces ‘being canceled’ over ‘transphobic’ comments in comedy special and said the following about it. “If this is what being canceled is like, I love it,” Chappelle said Thursday. “F— Twitter. F— NBC News, ABC News, all these stupid ass networks.” And this is why we all love Dave Chappelle… No matter what side you’re on you know that when you listen to his specials you’re getting the truth how he knows it, and from his real point of view. Agree with him or not he’s never held back, and this is something that must be respected. He’s a brilliant comedian and the one time comedian who joked about how during 911 people were wondering where was Ja Rule in all this, and what his thoughts were. Dave said “Who gives a fuck what Ja rule has to think in a time like this!” Well Dave isn’t Ja Rule, and we all like to hear what Chappelle has to say in times like these. Agree or not you know you’re at least hearing his real life point of view, and not some cookie cutter CNN or BIG TECH prep speech.
Dave’s critics accused him of “ridiculing trans people” in his Netflix special “The Closer,” which debuted earlier this week. “Gender is a fact,” he said during the program while defending author J.K. Rowling against critics who openly called her transphobic.
“Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth. That is a fact,” said Chappelle.
His comments earned him considerable push back from The National Black Justice Coalition, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, who urged Netflix to remove “The Closer” from its platform. They said the media giant “should know better.”
Dear White People showrunner Jaclyn P Moore, who is transgender, announced a boycott of Netflix over the “transphobic” special, claiming that the comedian’s jokes were “dangerous.”
“The fact is that’s the exact rhetoric and language that is used against us,” Moore said in an interview with Variety. “He talks about our feelings being hurt. My feelings are fine, but being thrown against a wall hurts or worrying at night if I can get home safe.” “I’m really tired of my existence being a matter of debate, that this is something that we all just get to have an opinion about. We all get to have an opinion whether or not I am what I say I am,” Moore continued. “Look, I have no desire to cancel Dave Chappelle. He should make whatever he wants to make.”
But Moore said to Netflix “it’s not like this was a live special.” He claimed they saw this and were like, ‘Yeah this seems okay to put out there.’ “The truth is it’s not. It’s dangerous and it has real world physical violence repercussions.”
“People like to say, “Oh, it’s just a joke.” I get the joke,” Moore added. “By the way there’s a lot that’s funny about being trans, but the idea that it’s funny that we call ourselves women, which was the subtext of a lot of those jokes, is not one of them. It’s actually the same language used by people who seek to hurt us.” GLAAD also slammed Chappelle, adding the comedian’s brand “has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.”
A Netflix spokesperson denied a request for comment at the time of writing.
