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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don’t mind comedians being offensive, or even saying homophobic things, as long as they are being funny. Dave Chapelle is not funny. His routines are just him whinging about how he’s oppressed because he’s black and because he’s not allowed to tell homophobic jokes. Yes, racism is real, and people should be allowed to tell offensive jokes because comedy is often at the expense of someone. There is a place for social commentary in comedy. But it doesn’t work with Dave because he half asses it. Either go hard or go home. The only thing funny about his special was the frame of these two transgender members of the audience glaring.

What I find even more annoying is how all these right wing commentators are praising Dave Chapelle "based" for making fun of trans people and "triggering the libs". TRAs and liberal SJWs get offended over everything. If I as a white man decided to set up a Chinese food stand in the city centre I should expect a bunch of Antifa types to protest outside my stand (at the very least) for "cultural appropriation". Dave Chapelle still entertains the delusions of transgender people. Those right wingers who are showering praise upon Chapelle are the same smooth brains who listen to Tom MacDonald rap songs because he’s "conservative", even though Tom MacDonald had Blaire White appear in one of his videos. "But Blaire White is conservative, and she calls out the LGBT agenda". No, Blaire is not a conservative, and he still pretends that he’s a woman. To end this paragraph, I bet that these conservatives don’t find Dave Chapelle funny at all, and are only praising him because he’s said something they agree with him on. Agreeing is not the point of comedy.

Look, I’m glad that Netflix are sticking to their guns and keeping the documentary up despite pressure from their transgender staff and the white person who directed "Dear White People" to cancel Dave Chapelle. I’m not even offended by the documentary, I don’t care about it at all. But Dave Chapelle isn’t funny. He sounds funny only because mainstream comedy is dead. Mainstream comedy died last decade when woke culture cancelled genuinely funny comedians or neutered comedians who were funny but not anymore. Bill Burr was funny up until a few years ago.

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"But Blaire White is conservative, and she calls out the LGBT agenda". No, Blaire is not a conservative, and he still pretends that he’s a woman. To end this paragraph, I bet that these conservatives don’t find Dave Chapelle funny at all, and are only praising him because he’s said something they agree with him on. Agreeing is not the point of comedy.

Just the other day I saw where a porn star was scheduled to appear at an American Conservative conference, and a few people were pushing back. Defenders were saying "but she voted for Trump!" Turns out she also makes hardcore porn, despite having children who will surely be messed up by that.

Maybe I would get it if she'd been in porn and then "found Jesus" and now lectures on the dangers of porn, but this woman apparently is more "sex positive" than most libfems even. "But she voted for Trump" -- oh, then her proud porno career is totally fine with mainstream conservatives ???

Can you imagine a Democrat gathering where they invited a gun rights, anti-union, anti-immigration, anti-abortionist to join them just because the person had voted for Biden? But conservatives seem to be that stupid.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can you imagine a Democrat gathering where they invited a gun rights, anti-union, anti-immigration, anti-abortionist to join them just because the person had voted for Biden?

That sounds like my parents, except they are against gun rights. They are anti immigration, they both voted no in the abortion referendum and they even said that unions should be banned. But they were delighted when Biden got elected and even think that Trump is like a terrorist. I doubt they would last a day in a Democratic convention. They would be Never Trumper Republicans if they were American.

A lot of "conservative" people nowadays are not conservative. They’re just liberals who see how insane the left has become. I was one of these people, calling myself right wing and conservative despite supporting gay marriage and abortion. The only things I was conservative on were taxes, immigration and regulations. Then I realised that I am still not a conservative, so I stopped calling myself conservative. But I’m also not a liberal either. I don’t bother labelling my ideology.