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Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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As someone who watched the special I think his greatest crime is just not being funny and thinking he's brave for doubling down. He's a boomer with a fan base and tons of money. If anything, this thread is proof that cancel culture is fake. He's Elon musk if Elon musk used to be funny.
Don't forget there are Xers with these views as well, because chapelle's one of them.
Yup. I have a millennial brother who adopts these same views. Meanwhile I have boomer hippy aunts and uncles far more liberal. I think it would be an error of judgment to just isolate it to a generation. Bad brains is a human trait.
You're right, Dave was born in '73, long past the Boomer cutoff point. Boomer is just another easy target to blame this mindset on but like you say this is something that defies generational gaps. I've met quite a few transphobic millennials/gen z-ers and from what I've seen on youngpeopleyoutube, really young kids are already being poisoned by transphobic social media subcultures.
"Boomer" has basically become slang for things like conservative, old-fashioned, technologically illiterate, homophobic, racist, etc.
Depends on the context, but barely anyone I know uses the word literally anymore.
Generational targeting is really fucking old.
they're just sexual preferences. don't kink shame, bro.
Yeah, he's just another disgustingly rich paranoid angry has-been.
Well said
The funny thing is I have literally no idea who he is. I have to assume he's some American "comedian" who, like most of his ilk, is utterly irrelevant/unheard of outside the United States.
He was a famous comedian who stopped doing his popular sketch show because he didn’t like the way white people where laughing at his race jokes who came back after about a decade and now makes money by making white people laugh the wrong way at Trans people and other disenfranchised people.
He was insightful and hilarious 2 decades ago.
Last thing of his I watched didn't make me laugh once and just felt forced and gross
Na mate, your at your much better at it. The way you completely refuse to break character is hilarious.
Maybe if you were a bit less defensive and aggressive someone would've informed you that it's actually spelled "pansy fucks" and you would be able to more successfully insult and fear those you don't understand.
well said. on all points.