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One of the most challenging parts of the last month is the sheer number of trolls who have targeted me. Logically, I understood that these people exist but it still boggles my mind that there are people who spends minutes, hours and days debating everything from
My mental health, whether I am a real person, how I can be pregnant, why I identify as both trans nonbinary and a lesbian. I honestly just don't understand how folks find the time to spend this much time on me
Moreover, we’ve started to get more concerning threats necessitating that we hire teams to provide security including monitoring threats against us. And the threats aren't even about the special the are about #Cuties and that conspiracy.
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My video exposing hate speech & violent threats made by the leader of the #NetflixWalkout protest has just been removed by FB for hate speech. This decision was made by a FB "team member". FB also "removed other posts that included this post". 1/5 ImageImageImage
This is the removed video of the protest leader accusing Dave Chappelle's show of being so hateful and harmful that "the jokes are taking lives". 2/5
The video was inexplicably removed from Reddit too, 3/5
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Dave Chappelle has lost his edge, imo. He spends just as much time complaining about not being able to make jokes in his newer specials like The Closer as he does actually making jokes.
#NetflixWalkout is a reaction to an inability to empathize with other people's struggles.
One of the last good comedians of the shock-humor oldguard has creatively stagnated and is blaming society for their changing tastes and not his own inability to improve. Like most other shock comedians from his time, the result is a backslide into complaint-based "vent comedy."
It's a shame because he was always a head and shoulders over his peers.
What's sadder than the world outgrowing a talented comedian is that comedian blame the world for it.
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Transgender Netflix employees and their allies are gathering on Vine Street in Los Angeles to protest the streaming giant’s decision to release Dave Chappelle’s controversial new comedy special. #NetflixWalkout
latimes.com/entertainment-…
In the weeks leading up to today’s walkout, protests within Netflix, suspensions and defensive statements from the company have erupted in response to Chappelle’s “The Closer,” which features transphobic remarks and other insensitive commentary. latimes.com/entertainment-…
A list of walkout demands reviewed last week by The Times reveals what some employees are asking of the company. latimes.com/entertainment-…
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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos admitted Tuesday to mishandling the fallout from Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer,” while maintaining that the special doesn’t qualify as hate speech. latimes.com/entertainment-…
The comedy special has received a wave of backlash for Chapelle's litany of transphobic material and insensitive commentary. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Sarandos' initial memo to employees regarding the Chapelle special, which argued that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm,” was recently leaked to the media and widely criticized online. latimes.com/entertainment-…
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