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Netflix urged to take down Dave Chapelle’s show after accusations of ‘anti-LGBT diatribes’

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ItsRainingProstateOwners · 07/10/2021 16:50

news.sky.com/story/netflix-urged-to-pull-down-dave-chappelles-new-show-after-accusations-of-anti-lgbtq-diatribes-12428009

Says he is “team TERF” and backs JK Rowling.

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SantaClawsServiette · 05/01/2022 15:53

There are plenty of gay people who find the ever increasing acronym quite funny and a little silly.

IvyTwines · 05/01/2022 15:46

@kharen4alone

this thread makes me sad for my two queer kids and the classmates they will be growing up with. You are going to raise children who refer to mine as the 'alphabet people' and that makes me angry.
For someone of my generation, the casual use by younger people of the word 'queer' is shocking. It is still used as hate speech where I live (which isn't a trendy part of London or a Californian university campus), and for many of my generation it carries the same sort of negative and abusive associations as use of the n-word.
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teawamutu · 04/01/2022 09:18

@BraveBananaBadge

Just read Glinner's update on Patton Oswalt and his social media hair shirt episode over having the audacity to put up a photo of him and Chappelle together on New Year's Eve. It's absolutely appalling. Online credibility meaning more to him than the 30+ year friendship he exploits and then recants, for what?

With friends like these, hm?

Patton Oswalt tweeted about how much he'd loved reading the Harry Potter books to his daughter, last year. Maybe he thought he'd got away with it?

What a fair weather, spineless cockwomble.

BraveBananaBadge · 03/01/2022 23:38

Just read Glinner's update on Patton Oswalt and his social media hair shirt episode over having the audacity to put up a photo of him and Chappelle together on New Year's Eve. It's absolutely appalling. Online credibility meaning more to him than the 30+ year friendship he exploits and then recants, for what?

With friends like these, hm?

LobsterNapkin · 15/10/2021 23:20

@NewlyGranny

I follow a n/b athlete on Instagram and they posted a screenshot of a tweet from a transwoman saying Chapelle had been invited to attend a 'Trannsformative dialogue' but had refused.

That chilled my blood. Does nobody remember the excesses of the Chinese cultural revolution?

No, no they don't.

My eldest child is doing modern history this year, in the one history class she needs to have to graduate from highschool. They have not touched on anything to do with the Chinese cultural revolution. Recently they have spent a whole week on theories about the JFK assassination.

This is why I find the whole identity politics approach to teaching history crazy, while saying it will wake the students to injustice, it ignores all the actual history that might give some insight into the human heart and the wielding of political power.

NewlyGranny · 15/10/2021 20:37

I follow a n/b athlete on Instagram and they posted a screenshot of a tweet from a transwoman saying Chapelle had been invited to attend a 'Trannsformative dialogue' but had refused.

That chilled my blood. Does nobody remember the excesses of the Chinese cultural revolution?

DysonSphere · 15/10/2021 19:23

Thanks @Lordamighty that was hilariousGrin. Thanks for introducing me to a genuinely funny female comedienne. She went full in!

MissingLesbianSpaces · 13/10/2021 19:57

Dave said trans is like blackface. He said having Jenner win Woman of the year despite transitioning less than a year before and never experiencing menstruation is like giving the award for best black rapper to Eminem

Lordamighty · 13/10/2021 09:24

Here you go Mary Bourke routine.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 12/10/2021 23:56

Mary Bourke did an amazing thing about SMURFS.

Hang on, I'll try and find it.

JackieWeaversZoomAc · 12/10/2021 10:28

I've never watched Dave Chappelle before or even really heard of him. Watched The Closer after all the fuss. Not really my thing, however it stayed with me after watching it - he is very provocative.

My thoughts:
He's very offensive & very clever;
It's a shame he conflates sex & gender - but pretty much everyone outside of GC world does;
It was very touching and very supportive of trans people. But because he also criticises & takes the piss- which he does to everyone- there is a massive meltdown;
And this is entirely his point - TRAs think they are untouchable and the cult must never be questioned or ridiculed. DC put them in his firing line like he does everyone else;
This is not hate. They are not being specifically targeted;
I think every word DC says is deliberate and well crafted.

I will watch some more.

Very excited for David Brant's next show.

Are there any female comedians doing this? All the ones I've watched are disappointingly super woke & actively pushing the gender cult.

OvaHere · 12/10/2021 09:34

I've asked MN to remove the post as I seem to have got people mixed up.

OvaHere · 12/10/2021 09:32

@Eucalyptustrees

It doesn't say that Ovahere, it says someone called Terra Field was suspended.
Ah right. my mistake. I'm confused now. Who is Terra Field?
Eucalyptustrees · 12/10/2021 08:34

It doesn't say that Ovahere, it says someone called Terra Field was suspended.

NecessaryScene · 12/10/2021 08:30

Not Moore, some employee. (Moore isn't an employee, right, just worked on a Netflix-produced show?)

OvaHere · 12/10/2021 08:25

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PrinnyPree · 12/10/2021 08:22

I can't believe feminists are fawning over Chappelle just because he declared himself a TERF...

Chappelle seems to think he’s being very deep as he asks us to consider the possibility that maybe—just maybe!—a rapist might be capable of a great deal of good, too. "That's the dilemma for the audience,” he says, “Because he rapes, but he saves a lot of lives. And he saves way more than he rapes, and he only rapes to save. But he does rape.”

GAHgamel · 12/10/2021 00:23

[quote trancepants]Look at the comments on the Variety article about Jaclyn Moore's threat to stop working with Netflix. It's being ratio-ed to fuck. I think there is definitely a sea change happening at the minute.

twitter.com/Variety/status/1446232724147040268[/quote]
There's a particularly on-point note in the replies:
twitter.com/Michael_AW77/status/1446484596200067076

Journeyofthedragons · 11/10/2021 21:47

He also gave Louie CK one of his first shows when other clubs stopped booking him after he was accused of multiple instances of sexual misconduct.

On his special Sticks & Stones, Chappelle remarked that CK “didn’t do anything you can call the police for”, and said: “Now he’s coming back playing comedy clubs and they’re acting like if he’s able to do that that’s going to hurt women. What the f* is your agenda, ladies?"

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/news/louis-ck-dave-chappelle-comedy-show-michelle-wolf-masturbation-photo-a9662506.html

TheLeadbetterLife · 11/10/2021 21:33

Chapelle may be on “our” side on this, but he’s no friend to women. The first of his Netflix specials was an hour long rape apology on behalf of Bill Cosby. He’s a misogynist, as are many people who superficially appear to be gender critical.

trancepants · 11/10/2021 21:18

Ah ok, it's a different trans person and it's because the stormed into a high level Netflix meeting to protest.

trancepants · 11/10/2021 21:17

So it turns out that someone should have told J Moore to be careful about what you wish for. Someone may not be working for Netflix again.

Netflix Suspends Three Employees, Including Trans Person Who Spoke Out Against Dave Chappelle, for Crashing Leadership Meeting

twitter.com/Variety/status/1447628354841108483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1447628354841108483%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=

SpindleWhirl · 11/10/2021 20:15

[quote MidsomerMurmurs]@SpindleWhirl do you really want to know? If so read this: grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/variety-a-white-male-oppression-tourist[/quote]
Thank you for that link. I appreciate it.

It's so wrong.

MidsomerMurmurs · 11/10/2021 20:04

@SpindleWhirl do you really want to know? If so read this: grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/variety-a-white-male-oppression-tourist