(October 7, 2021 at 10:58 am)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: The wokeists need to get over themselves. Trans need to learn to laugh at themselves. I'm bisexual, not that there's anything right with that, and a lot of jokes about gays can be pretty funny. Why is Dave obsessed with joking about trans over and over? Why is Louis CK, Bill Burr, etc railing against cancel culture in their acts? Because it's necessary at this point in time for people to take a stand against the BS woke cancel culture, and Dave Chapelle and these other comedians are not speaking up about this to be edgy. That's not it at all. It's because they feel it is absolutely necessary to take a stand at this moment in history, to try to save comedy in general from being cancelled and watered down by the woke mob. I applaud them for doing this.
I haven't watched the special, but the tweets about it in the first link weren't over-reactions or cancel culture.
A comedian can use edgy material to show some absurdity. Sure, a trans woman isn't identical to a biological woman. The TERF term, however, is a political statement that trans-women must not ever be considered women.
That's his opinion, and it isn't humorous. That's when the comedy becomes politics that I can't support.
