 You know what they say you either die a hero or you live long enough to become a villain and Unfortunately, I feel like that's the case with Dave Chappelle and I say that as a gigantic Dave Chappelle fan a former Dave Chappelle fan I grew up with Chappelle show. He was my favorite comedian favorite celebrity period. I basically worshiped him I was I was a simp. I was a stan. I loved it. Me and my friends loved it I've seen every single episode every single stand-up special He introduced me to hip-hop artists that I hadn't previously known about Talib Kweli most death. I loved Dave Chappelle But I noticed that as he grows older becomes wealthier He gets more and more out of touch and elitist and that's starting to be reflected in his comedy I mean, he was always edgy. He always was intentionally offensive But there's a difference between, you know, being offensive and edgy and crossing the line while punching up and Being edgy and offensive and punching down at people who are marginalized and in a pretty bad state So this headline from media. I'd says a lot. We'll dive into the article But this is what they say Dave Chappelle says he's team turf Defends JK Rowling and the baby in latest special quote gender is a fact first of all I don't know what that means gender is a fact Gender is a social construct. There's a difference between sex and gender So right off the bat by him making that statement. You can tell that he's ignorant. He's uninformed We are the ones who create a gender. I mean look at the gender reveal parties, right? We dictate that anyone who's born With a vagina should be wearing pink. They should act feminine. They should wear dresses They should have long hair anyone who's born with the penis should act masculine Like the color blue Be a certain way these are traits that we ascribe to people before they're even born. That's what gender is It's a social construct. It's different than what is between your legs So for him to say gender is a fact. Yeah, I mean gender exists. That's a fact But gender ultimately is a social construct and gender is what we as a culture Say that it is so he doesn't even understand the basic difference between sex and gender that's apparent through this and Immediately before we get into the article, I know people are gonna say well look, I mean, it's it's a comedy bit He's just a comedian. Why are people so easily offended? Well, look, it's easy for you to say that if you don't have any skin in the game It's easy for you to say that if you don't have someone in your family who's trans or you're not trans yourself trans people are Under assault in this country culturally Legislatively in this year alone, there have been dozens of bills introduced in the legislatures across the country targeting trans youth Black trans women are susceptible to murder. This is a huge issue So for him to attack trans people and for people to React to the backlash by dismissing it. I mean You would feel differently if you knew someone who is transgender I'll just say that but let's get to the article here So Leah id Libby of mediaite writes Dave Chappelle has declared himself team turf the acronym for trans exclusionary radical feminist On Tuesday the comedian dropped the closer his sixth stand-up special for Netflix in which he declared gender is a fact adding Every human being in this room every human being on earth had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth That is a fact Chappelle unable to differentiate between sex and gender as the former refers to biology while the latter is attached to one's Identity went on to make explicit jokes about the anatomy of transgender women Comparing their genitals to vegan burger substitutes the comedian additionally showed his support for JK Rowling Defending her against being canceled for multiple transphobic remarks which led people to identify her as a turf I'm team turf Chappelle exclaimed. I agree. I agree man Gender is a fact after telling a joke at the expense of the transgender community Chappelle vowed that he was done telling LGBTQ plus jokes until he was sure that they were laughing Together. Yeah, and that's some inside inside there. He knows that LGBTQ plus people aren't laughing with him. He's laughing at them He's making jokes at their expense and that's not to say that you can't joke about trans issues and LGBTQ plus issues But I don't really want to hear a cis person make transgender jokes in the same way that I don't want to hear a white Dude make black jokes Trans jokes can be hilarious gay jokes can be hilarious but they're best told from people from that community and Perhaps a straight person can make a gay joke if they put it in context if there's understanding of the history of discrimination and bigotry But I mean it depends right there's there's nuance But this isn't a case of I'm laughing at transgender people But I also have an understanding of their community and the suffering that they're going through and the marginalization that they experience It's just I'm laughing at them and they're silly. It's just being a dick. It's it's punching down. This isn't this isn't funny This is maybe funny to some people, but that doesn't make it any less insensitive and when I hear him double down here This is kind of the sense that I get this is all speculative, but this is my impression So I watched his last special and that's when he made Transgender jokes and they weren't even original jokes. I think he literally from remembering correctly made a variation of the I identify as an apache Attack helicopter joke. I think he said oh, well if you can identify as anything I identify as Chinese It's the same fucking joke And we've heard it time and again and I think that he Knew about the pushback and the criticism that he received and rather than trying to be introspective He chose to double down become more hard line in his transphobic beliefs. That's what they are. That's that's transphobia That's how it manifests and it's it's really sad But when he associates himself with Joe Rogan who's explicitly transphobic with ilan musk I mean we saw that photograph like these are the folks who he's associated with these edgelords Who are stupid? They're elitist. They're out of touch. I mean you could see how his worldview is getting skewed He went from an edgy outsider to someone who's saying the same shit. Oh, these comedians are getting cancelled. We can't even tell jokes Can you though because you're telling these jokes? JK Rowling is cancelled. But is she though? She's still publishing books. She's still a multi-millionaire I just feel like cancel culture doesn't really have that much of an impact Really what we're seeing is accountability We're seeing criticism and perhaps some people do get permanently cancelled But oftentimes when we do see permanent cancellations, it's usually warranted I think that everyone can agree. It's good that Harvey Weinstein was cancelled or r. Kelly was cancelled But when it comes to criticism push back when transgender people are dying when trans youth are being homeless when they're kicked out of their homes by their parents who reject them I It's just Yeah, it doesn't land well with me now getting to the second part when it comes to the baby Here's what he says in addition to his defense of rowling Chappelle addressed the lgbtq community directly jokingly asking to negotiate the release of the baby A rapper condemned for making homophobic comments during his rolling loud. Miami said part of the lgbtq plus community Doesn't know the baby's history. Chappelle said he once shot 19 year old Jalen craig and killed him in walmart This is true The baby shot and killed a man in walmart in north carolina. Nothing bad happened to his career He added do you see where i'm going with this in our country? You can shoot and kill a man, but you better not hurt a gay person's feelings. So first of all, I don't think anyone Disagrees with the notion that murder is more morally egregious than homophobia Obviously who who's going to disagree with that? But his statement there feels contradictory because on one hand he says I want to negotiate with lgbtq plus people to Uncanceled the baby, but then he's like well the baby really should be cancelled because he killed someone So do you want him cancelled or do you want him uncanceled? And I get the point that he's trying to make he's trying to make it Apparent that this is kind of a weird standard that we have as a society where we can give someone a pass for murder But not homophobia and I don't really even understand what the baby's point was with those comments But if he did indeed murder someone, yeah, probably should be cancelled Yeah, that's I I just feel like that's not controversial Um, maybe people didn't know about it. I just I don't know but overall Even if he's making a valid point about he really should have been cancelled for murder The subtext is that gay people are so unreasonable. Gay people are basically authoritarians. They're like the mafia You say anything about them and they come for you Is that really the case though? You're not being threatened. You're just getting criticism I mean Dave Chappelle made transphobic jokes last time and he's still got a Netflix special. Everything is still okay It's all copacetic. You're still a multi-millionaire. So I just don't understand what what specifically Do you expect? Do you want zero criticism? Because in comedy Dave Chappelle of all people should understand that it is inherently controversial comedy lands differently depending on the person depending on their sense of humor depending on their predispositions So, I mean you should expect criticism whenever you put out a comedy special I don't think there's any comedy that is going to be super milk toast that doesn't offend at least someone So I just I don't know what his expectations are If you criticize gay people if you make an lgbtq negative Joke if you make a joke at the expense of trans people Do you expect them to just shut up and take it when their community is under assault? I just don't know what the expectation is. I don't know what he wants And I do want to share a couple of tweets because I think they do a really good job At putting things into perspective. So eve 6 the band actually tweeted this out Dave Chappelle says twitter isn't a real place and he's right The real places are the alleys and underpasses where trans people on the margins are murdered because of societal prejudice That he is lazily defending under the pretense of intellectual bravery Would love for these multi-millionaire turfs to walk a day in those shoes and see how brave they feel exactly A reed ross writes one of the most famous people in the world basically said he hates trans folks In his big comedy special and conservatives are still like woke censorship is worse than the spanish inquisition Should be pretty obvious who's being put down and it's not the millionaire comedian And finally robin tran shared a screenshot from the special Where he says that he met katlyn Jenner things that she's a wonderful person And she writes he should be cancelled just for this to be honest point taken because yeah Katlyn Jenner is a piece of shit But um, I don't know if it's that his worldview is shaped by katlyn Jenner Who's a pretty out-of-touch elite herself? I don't know what it is But my guess is that he wasn't anticipating the blowback that he got from that last special And it kind of took him off guard. So he chose to double down and that kind of built up his perception I don't know. But this is really this is disappointing as someone who is a longtime fan of of davis chappelle This is heartbreaking to see nobody wants to see one of their idols Go to the dark side start punching down But it's it's um, it's shitty It's it's sad to see And he might think that he's saying something that's honest or he's just being factual But you're not you're actually wrong and you're ignorant and this is not gonna age well I mean ask eddie murphy hell well his old stand-ups where he made homophobic jokes aged well He wasn't canceled by the way for that But it just didn't age well if you watch it now it's it's difficult to watch especially if you're a gay person So, I mean look he has already chosen that this is his lane He feels strongly about this because when you're a millionaire you have to make mountains out of molehills You'll have to try to find some way to feel persecutor. I don't know what it is I won't try to cycle analyze him, but this is wrong And I don't care if you're a fan of Dave Chappelle and you come here and you dislike this video and you call me an sjw What's wrong is wrong. This is wrong and I'm gonna call it out