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Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.

“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).

It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.

That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.

He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehh. I'll probably still watch it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Netflix appreciates your support for bigotry and is glad that you will be added to the data that shows that bigotry makes for popular programming. Otherwise, we might not make this sort of thing anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yes, you've already made your pro-bigotry stance known above. I'm just not sure why you think it's something to be proud of.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They never said how they're gonna watch it, plenty of ways to see it on the high sea.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I don't really think that changes what I'm saying. I think it is unlikely that Netflix doesn't take piracy into account when calculating viewership. Because even if those aren't subscribers, they're viral marketers and drive up subscriptions because of it. Obviously, they don't want their programming to be pirated, but I think it would be foolish of them to not fold those into overall viewership numbers. I would say the same thing about Max and The Last of Us or Disney and The Mandalorian.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how many of you watched this based on the comments here

But his jokes really were not transphobic in this special at all

Watch the thing with context and see

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you give some context? I'm definitely not going to watch it based on just a "take my word for it" argument. He's been known to toe the line and get rude when people call him out on it. At this point I have to assume he is being transphobic simply because that's been a problem for him in the past.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK. You're entitled to your biases and unfounded opinions as much as the next person. Doesn't mean we need to respect them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Today in bizzaroworld, asking for context demonstrates bias and unfounded opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Did you miss the part about how he's not going to watch it himself but already has an opinion based on his own assumptions?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But as it was happening… I was very disappointed. Because I wanted to meet Jim Carrey, and I had to pretend this n*gga was Andy Kaufman… all afternoon. It was clearly Jim Carrey. I could look at him and I could see he was Jim Carrey.

Anyway, I say all that to say… that’s how trans people make me feel.

That's extremely transphobic and not even an attempt at being funny.

Edit:

“Give me your fruit cocktail, bitch, before I knock your motherf*cking teeth out. I’m a girl, just like you, bitch. Come here and suck this girl’s dick I got. Don’t make me explain myself. I’m a girl”

Also very transphobic, and there's more.

Here's the complete transcript of his new program.

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/dave-chappelle-the-dreamer-transcript/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

When you pull out specific lines without the entire context of the joke, you can make literally anything sound bad.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Dave Chappelle is the Clarence Thomas of comedy.

Anybody who's followed Chris Rock since the 90s will be familiar. It starts out as an "edgy" black comedian with an overwhelmingly white audience. It ends with your core audience using you as a black voice, that one black friend, who justifies regressive politics. I don't know if Dave is in on the joke, laughing all the way to the bank. Either way, he's playing the clown.

I thought the whole reason he abandoned his successful show was in part a refusal to shuck and jive. Kinda disappointing that he's putting on a minstrel show now.