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The Batlord · 10-14-2021, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

And even more things can also be true

Like the fact that despite claiming to care about trans lives, people will bully a trans person relentlessly till they kill themself if they say something that is interpreted as going against the cause

And you will sit here and act like his (assumed) motivations for bringing up said dead trans girl are somehow more important than her death and what lead up to it.. hmmmm i wonder why that is

Again, while Chappelle's antics raise some flags I'm not really following him so I can't really throw out any blanket condemnations. I'm more interested in your knee jerk defense of any comedian's good name, and throwing out tired right wing cliches about leftist hypocrisy is par the course for you with this ****.

TheBig3 · 10-14-2021, 08:26 AM

I had a professor say once that people don't protest good art. This was in the context of Angels in America, but I think 90% of the reason he's taking so much heat is that this special sucked.

He called them "Alphabet people" in the last special and everyone called him the GOAT. He says "Twitter isn't a real place" in this special but I don't get the impression he believes it.

10-14-2021, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Chapelle making jokes about his dead trans friend is pretty wack.

i didn't hear him make a joke about it but i only saw a clip...

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Again, while Chappelle's antics raise some flags I'm not really following him so I can't really throw out any blanket condemnations. I'm more interested in your knee jerk defense of any comedian's good name, and throwing out tired right wing cliches about leftist hypocrisy is par the course for you with this ****.

Your response came across to me as knee jerk which is why i was just clarifying what i heard... Which is not to say nothing he did or said can be ridiculed but that it wasn't just i have a trans friend therefore I'm not transphobe... But people on both sides selectively care and don't care i think a lot of it is posturing.. Like why are people more concerned with Chappelle supposedly pulling the trans friend card than they are with the fact that maybe she was bullied into suicide... Seems like precisely the sort of thing people would usually be concerned about

10-14-2021, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3

I had a professor say once that people don't protest good art. This was in the context of Angels in America, but I think 90% of the reason he's taking so much heat is that this special sucked.

He called them "Alphabet people" in the last special and everyone called him the GOAT. He says "Twitter isn't a real place" in this special but I don't get the impression he believes it.

nah i have a hard time believing that's all it is... Tons of bad specials that don't draw any attention. It's explicitly political and was designed and marketed as such which is where all the attention comes from.

**Frownland** · 10-14-2021, 01:35 PM

Everyone who doesn't like Chapelle tacitly supports bullying people to death, got it.

10-14-2021, 01:47 PM

yawn...

The Batlord · 10-14-2021, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb

i didn't hear him make a joke about it but i only saw a clip...

Your response came across to me as knee jerk which is why i was just clarifying what i heard... Which is not to say nothing he did or said can be ridiculed but that it wasn't just i have a trans friend therefore I'm not transphobe... But people on both sides selectively care and don't care i think a lot of it is posturing.. Like why are people more concerned with Chappelle supposedly pulling the trans friend card than they are with the fact that maybe she was bullied into suicide... Seems like precisely the sort of thing people would usually be concerned about

Are most people even aware of his friend? I imagine him bringing it up is the first time most people are hearing about it and given the circumstances he's not exactly a reliable source. Besides, how do you suggest we self-police social media? We can't even police comedians.

10-14-2021, 02:31 PM

I'm not suggesting you can or anything but isn't that part of the larger conversation about transphobia that they have higher rates of that sort of thing.... Obviously he might have his own motives for bringing it up and you can question that but you should also at the very least keep in mind that these online backlash campaigns are not always so harmless either

**Frownland** · 10-14-2021, 04:18 PM

Can't believe Dave killed his friend like that.

10-14-2021, 04:30 PM

Your trolling attempts are getting lazier by the post Frownland

10-14-2021, 08:26 AM	#782 (permalink)
TheBig3 killedmyraindog Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 11,246	I had a professor say once that people don't protest good art. This was in the context of Angels in America, but I think 90% of the reason he's taking so much heat is that this special sucked. He called them "Alphabet people" in the last special and everyone called him the GOAT. He says "Twitter isn't a real place" in this special but I don't get the impression he believes it. __________________ I've moved to a new address

10-14-2021, 01:35 PM	#785 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Everyone who doesn't like Chapelle tacitly supports bullying people to death, got it. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

10-14-2021, 04:18 PM	#789 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Can't believe Dave killed his friend like that. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

10-14-2021, 01:47 PM	#786 (permalink)
jwb Guest Posts: n/a	yawn...

10-14-2021, 02:31 PM	#788 (permalink)
jwb Guest Posts: n/a	I'm not suggesting you can or anything but isn't that part of the larger conversation about transphobia that they have higher rates of that sort of thing.... Obviously he might have his own motives for bringing it up and you can question that but you should also at the very least keep in mind that these online backlash campaigns are not always so harmless either

10-14-2021, 04:30 PM	#790 (permalink)
jwb Guest Posts: n/a	Your trolling attempts are getting lazier by the post Frownland