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LGBTQ+ Celebs to Join in PSA for Protest of Dave Chappelle, Netflix

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most recent special, The Closer, in which he mocked trans women’s genitals, boasted of beating up a lesbian, and declared himself a member of “Team TERF,” TERF being an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.”Netflix has stood by Chappelle and refused to take the program down.

Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent an email to employees saying, “We don’t allow titles on Netflix that are designed to incite hate or violence, and we don’t believe The Closer crosses that line.”Meanwhile, Netflix suspended an employee who criticized the company on social media — the reason given was that she had attempted to join and meeting to which she was not invited — and fired a leader of the service’s trans resource group, supposedly for leaking data to the.

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the co-CEO Ted Sarandos’s defense of Dave Chappelle’s stand-up special, The Closer.The comic has been widely criticised by many viewers and LGBTQ+ organisations for defending J.K. Rowling’s views on trans women by declaring that he’s ‘team TERF’, and joked that you should avoid upsetting the community by talking about rapper DaBaby’s remarks about HIV during his set at a music festival.In turn, the trans employee resource group within Netflix is organising a demonstration after Netflix refused to remove the stand-up form its service despite many of its users threatening to boycott.The leader of the group wrote to staff (via The Verge): ‘Trans Lives Matter.
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