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[–]julesburm1891 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I haven’t watched it yet, but my understanding is that Chappelle does talk a lot of of shit about gay people not liking DaBaby making some actually shitty remarks about gay people. (Notice how we aren’t sending death/rape threats to him or demanding he be completely deplatformed. But whatever.)

If you don’t like Dave Chappelle, don’t watch the special. It’s that simple.

[–]Criticallacitirc 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

This Dave Chapelle bit about the LGBTQ community is hilarious. He can make fun of us all he wants

https://youtu.be/ARAROgMXpCM

[–]julesburm1891 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I absolutely love that skit. It cracks me up every time.

It is, however, not what I’m talking about. In the new special, Chappelle apparently goes off about how privileged gays bullied the rapper DaBaby. What actually happened is that DaBaby called gay people nasty and made “jokes” about us getting AIDS. Gays responded by saying DaBaby was an asshole for it and he lost some fans.

If DaBaby merely poked some fun at us, fine. Even if he said, “I don’t agree with that lifestyle” whatever. The problem is that he was being actually fucking hateful and then pretending to be a victim when people told him he was being a dickhead. We aren’t above criticism or poking fun. My problem is when someone pretends we’re oppressing another person by sticking up for ourselves in response to actual homophobia.