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Cancel Culture Calling for Netflix to Pull Dave Chappelle’s Stand-Up Specials

by Iesha
October 7, 2021
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Dave Chappelle Teases That This Week’s ‘SNL’ Episode Will Be “So Black, It’ll Be On BET”

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The notorious Dave Chappelle recently had a stand-up special on Netflix, and now cancel culture is demanding that his brand be removed from the streaming platforms library.

On Tuesday, the comedian’s sixth and final installment of the special immediately sparked outrage due to his incendiary comments about transgender women.

Chappelle is also accused of defending rapper Da Baby and Author J.K Rowling’s controversial comments. He is also accused of deflecting after making jokes about the trans community in other Netflix specials like, “Equanimity” and “Sticks and Stones.”

During his new special, “The Closer,” Chappelle announced that he was joining J.K Rowling’s “Team TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist),” and combined Da Baby’s homophobic comments from earlier this summer with systemic racism.

Chappelle said onstage “In our country, you can shoot and kill a [ N-word] — but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings,” while referencing a 2018 shooting incident involving the rapper.

The backlash is growing, but arguably the most surprising response comes from one of Netflix’s own employees: Executive producer and showrunner for Netflix’s “Dear White People,” Jaclyn Moore.

Moore straight up said she was “done” with Netflix.

“I love so many of the people I’ve worked with at Netflix,” she shared to Twitter after detailing her own transition in a passionate post. “Brilliant people and executives who have been collaborative and fought for important art,” Moore continued, …. [but] I will not work with them as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content.”

But Moore isn’t the only one who wants to remove Chappelle. The National Black Justice Coalition, a civil rights organization dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community, has also asked Netflix to remove “The Closer” from its platform.

“With 2021 on track to be the deadliest year on record for transgender people in the United States — the majority of whom are Black transgender people — Netflix should know better,” NBJC executive director David Johns said in a statement to Deadline. “Perpetuating transphobia perpetuates violence. Netflix should immediately pull ‘The Closer’ from its platform and directly apologize to the transgender community.”

The legendary comedian’s practice of degrading jokes was also called out by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups at GLAAD, who declared: “Chappelle’s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.”

Chappelle and Netflix’s representatives have so far declined to comment on the unfavorable press, although the comedian did speak directly to the LGBTQ+ community in “The Closer,” declaring he has no “hate” for them.

“Oh, I’m jealous. I’m not the only black person that feels this way. We look at the gay community, we go, ‘Goddamn it — look at how well that movement is going! Look at how well you are doing.’ And we’ve been trapped in it this predicament for hundreds of years. How the f–k are you making that kind of progress?”

Chappelle went on to express how he felt about the “old school gangsta gays” who actually fought for change.

“I’m not that fond of these newer gays. Too sensitive. Too brittle. Those aren’t the gays I grew up with … They fought for their freedom. I respect that s–.”

 

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