That Gay Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Because that would completely negate the arguments against dave. It's a good thing breathing is involuntary because I fear you would have suffocated long ago.

Also you're wrong about everything else, I have proof.

What's the arguments against Dave? He's not allowed to freely express his opinions?

The argument against Dave overall is that he made a standup special that's filled with statements against trans people (a minority of people that has to keep putting up with a lot of oppression, including bills that specifically target them for doing something as simple as using their preferred restroom) that are not only offensive, they're often just plain incorrect*. And, because of this, many believe Netflix should remove it. He may have the right to express his opinions, but that doesn't mean a particular platform has to put up with them. You want more specifics, Jessie Gender has a good overview, and even does a good job of putting his bullshit into perspective.





* The claim that trans folk are somehow analogous to blackface strikes me as a particularly blatant example. Hey, gang, why is blackface considered offensive? If you answer "because it's been so thoroughly linked with portrayals of black people that mock and dehumanise them that it's more or less irredeemable," you'd be correct. If someone assigned male at birth becomes transgender, well, they're not doing it to mock women. They're not part of a tradition that dehumanise women. Frankly, they are women. And even if you don't co-sign with that view, they still believe themselves in their heart of hearts to be women. The closest comparison possible between the two concepts would be a hypothetical version of Black Like Me where John Howard Griffin takes his six-week experiment of living as a black person in the Jim Crow South to understand racism firsthand and, instead of just stopping his Methoxsalen intake and retreating to a motel room for several days, he decided to keep living as a black person for the rest of his life, with an extra helping of scorn because he was born white and became black.