That Gay Thread

[Irreligious Atheist]

“Everyone can be joked about.”

Well, I guess if you assert it, it must be true. Debate over. 🤷‍♀️

Apparently, if you are against vulnerable minorities being demonized via comedy. You are against equal rights .....Okay

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Also the Idea that a black man can "punch down" is beyond absurd. Black men were systematically engineered to be at the bottom of the social economic ladder. He'll even the Afgan refugees that just got here were just given 6.3 billion dollars of taxpayers money, yet the freed slaves had to do with nothing but the clothes on thier back.

Yeah because freed black slaves are totally equivalent to Afgan refugees fleeing their country to escape a murderous group of Islamic extremists, And no black people are not at the bottom

Dave didn't demonize trans people. Watch the special before posting things like this.

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Punching down is one of the funniest forms of comedy. I love seeing comedians punching down. No one is immune from being joked about.

Yeah, we get it. You're an immature bully who'd rather pick on the weak because you can't run with the big dogs.

Yes, because we all know cringy late night comedians making jokes about "Orange man bad" over and over five nights a week is the peak of comedy, and the only thing that it's ok to joke about, and far more brilliant than Dave Chappelle's comedy. Comedy is meant to be immature. Since when is comedy supposed to be mature? What kind of nonsense is that? Dave wasn't doing a Ted Talk or a university lecture. He was doing a damn stand-up act. If you don't find the most popular comedians in the world who do similar content to this funny, don't watch them.

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Everyone can be joked about. Trans people don't have to find it funny, but if they want Chappelle's special taken down, they are asking for special treatment, not equal treatment. I'm an egalitarian/ classical feminist (none of this current feminist wave BS) and I believe people should be given equal treatment no matter what their gender is. You are against equality, and that is sad.

Can be. Not should. And, honestly, I'm not sure about removing it altogether, mostly because I fucking hate when shit gets randomly removed from certain streaming services (although Chappelle can almost certainly find another site to stream it, or, like Louis CK did, distribute it digitally on his own site.) But criticising it mercilessly over social media, that's honestly the right thing to do. Enough people talk about it, it develops a toxic reputation and, after the inevitable boom of people watching it out of bile fascination (let's face it, not enough people are cinematic masochists like me), people stop watching it.

Yes, should be, because people find it funny and they are watching it, and Dave is making tens of millions of dollars off of that content. It's good shit. No need to fix what ain't broken and what's working. Everyone here is calling it shit and unfunny, but most people here have not even given it a look see. I appreciate that you don't want it taken down though. Respect.