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Dave Chappelle says his trans jokes 'went down well' at Saudi Arabia gig
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he does have one well-thought message, albeit with incorrect addressing and postage
now that i look it up, he does already condemn israel much more than palestine (and gotten flak for it). he even called israel a war criminal back in oct 2023. i wonder how this hasn't caused certain senators including MAGA to try and cancel him yet...
Typical whataboutist deflection. He tries to hide the fact that he is a snivelling piece of shit.
not really he is just showing the gigantic hypocrisy of some woke fighters.
The correct and moral decision isn't 'I work for all murderous regimes', it is 'I work for no murderous regime'.
Simple as that and he failed. And before somebody comes with 'but what about USA/China/UK' I said all. And there is also a big difference between working in a country and being invited by the rulers of the country.
He's a Muslim, I think it was safe to assume he's not a fan of Israel BEFORE the current iteration of the genocide against Palestinians tbh.
Though I don't even remember his trans jokes being intentionally malicious or anything. More like... Just poor taste and then he doubled down on it.
It hardly matters at this point. Even if it wasn't malicious at first, it became malicious as soon as he doubled down, and tripled down, and quadrupled down...
Not having heard the jokes under "discussion" here, I cannot comment on those specifically. But overall Chappelle's message rings loud and clear (to me) that LGBTQIA+ people, at the end of the day, are still "passing", whereas a black man in that part of the USA can never present as anything other than black, and that makes a HUGE difference.
I'll let him tell it in his own words though: https://youtube.com/shorts/hac3bwgo90g
The point does not stands on its own, rainbow people absolutely can have a hard time "passing", just ask the many gay kids bullied and harassed even when deep in the closet, without even mentioning trans folks.
Even if blackout drunk I managed to forget that, though, "you are fine if you hide who you are" is still a shitty argument to endorse.
That's dumb as fuck.