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.
So he is punching down and is telling Trans jokes still? It’s not a percentage issue.
Let’s not bemoan specificity. If anything, we need accurate, fine details more than ever.
All the guy said what he disagreed with the portion of the title which stated that the special was “filled” with specific jokes. That particular claim IS indeed a percentage issue.
If you are taking the point further and saying that percentages shouldn’t matter, even 1% is too much, that’s a SEPARATE claim. It doesn’t address the original claim.
They’re last sentence apologizes for the content, so let’s not waste our time pretending that’s the real disagreement. The Andy Kaufman bit is 100% transphobic but OP won’t acknowledge it that way.
Perhaps you’re just seeing what you want to see. I don’t do mind games. Words mean what their definitions are. Anything else is opinion, not fact. Cite me what words exactly you are referring to that would be objectively defined as an “apology.”