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Critics call to cancel Dave Chappelle, Netflix for ‘ridiculing trans people’
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Netflix special to be yanked from the streaming giant’s catalog. The special — the sixth and final in the Emmy winner’s big-bucks deal with Netflix — premiered Tuesday, and immediately stoked the flames of controversy with incendiary jokes about transgender women.
Chappelle, 48, is also being accused of defending what many perceived to be problematic comments by rapper DaBaby and “Harry Potter” author J.K.
Rowling, as well as deflecting criticism he faced for cracking wise about the trans community in previous specials “Equanimity” and “Sticks & Stones.”In “The Closer,” Chappelle declares that he’s joining Rowling in “Team TERF!” (the acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist), and conflated rapper DaBaby’s homophobic statements at a.
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17.10 / 08:13
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Free speech or hate speech? Netflix at eye of LGBTQ storm
Los Angeles – Netflix has been plunged into America’s culture wars by a Dave Chappelle comedy special that raises concerns about free speech and censorship but has been slammed by its own employees as transphobic.In “The Closer,” boundary-pushing megastar Chappelle responds to critics who have accused him of mocking transgender people in the past by asserting that “gender is a fact” and accusing LGBTQ people of being “too sensitive.” “In our country you can shoot and kill” a Black man, “but you’d better not hurt a gay person’s feelings,” says the stand-up comic, who is Black.While the show has been condemned by LGBTQ groups — including GLAAD, which cited studies linking stereotypes about minorities to real-world harm — Netflix has so far
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