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Stacy Revere / Getty Images; MSNBCDave Chappelle has released three Netflix comedy specials over the previous three years, and each featured a lengthy segment of commentary about transgender people.
These specials have kicked off a conversation about comedy, bigotry and the seeming cultural zeitgeist: cancel culture. Chappelle points out that white LGBTQ people tend to overlook their Black counterparts in policy discussions and advocacy, but anyone involved in queer activism already knows this and it’s awful. He then immediately throws this point away by taking sides with the closest thing we have to a queen of the white people,, calling himself a “TERF,” or “trans exclusionary radical feminist,” and accusing trans people of making up the term “to win arguments.
In doing so, he’s developed a reputation, and those who are already predisposed to hate on trans people are now a built-in audience for his specials. They’ve responded with an undying defense on social media, building Chappelle into a nearly mythical creature on the level of Rowling. He now says he’s done ragging on the trans community and will move on to other topics in future specials.
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