Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled peoplelocked

MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world – 378 points –
Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people
independent.co.uk

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.

474

You are viewing a single comment

Comedy is the last bastion for free speech

Really? There's literally no other free speech in the entire country? Guess those idiots on newsmaxx aren't still lying about jewish space lasers then.

With cancel culture being so sensitive, free speech is under attack. I disagree with NewsMax and Nazis, but they have a right to express themselves without being cancelled.

What does getting canceled have to do with the 1st amendment? You want the government to force companies to employ nazis?

I think you've missed the point or the intent of the first amenmdebt itself if you are asking that question.

As for your second question, that is a straw man argument.

I think you've missed the point of the 1st amendment if you think it has anything to do with private entities canceling people. And if you don't want nazis to get canceled but think that it's unrelated to employment, who exactly is canceling them?

Your argument about free speech and the first amendment is hopelessly convoluted with cancel culture.