Thread by @MrErnestOwens

"It's just jokes," they said.

Dave Chappelle made a "joke" about a transgender actress, activist, and comedian named Daphne Dorman in his Netflix special.

She recently died to suicide.

Trans people are not a joke.

Enough is enough.
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There are a lot of non-LGBTQ folks weighing in on this post with basic, myopic, short-sighted, and tone deaf remarks.

Here's a fun fact: Just because Daphne and Dave were friends, doesn't mean he isn't transphobic.

Stop with the "I got a transgender friend" bullshit.

Even further, nobody is directly blaming Dave Chappelle for Daphne's suicide but making people realize that trans suicides often stem from being marginalized in the world. Just because Dave was cool with Daphne does that mean his friends and world at large were?

What's interesting about some of the tone-deaf takes in these comments is that more of you are hell-bent on defending Dave Chappelle's transphobic "jokes" than empathizing with the fact that a trans woman is dead.

Nor did any of you care to acknowledge the larger point made.

Transgender people are not a joke.

Even if Daphne herself appeared to condone it, the transphobia doesn't automatically get dismissed because Dave's "jokes" impact a larger community given its worldwide distribution.

Also, this is one of many transphobic "jokes" Dave has made.

Given a lot of the bad logic in these comments, it seems like once again nobody cares about trans people without throwing one under the bus to defend their favorite transphobic comedian.

So rather than "Damn, maybe Dave should cut it out"...it's more like "She was cool with it."

Growing up queer, I had to "cool with it" in order to survive and navigate my life.

Bullies were "cool"with me because they said I "could take it." Deep down inside, I was complicit because I feared that anything less would make it worse.

LGBTQ people learn to be "cool with it"

Daphne was a trans comedian in an industry that saw her existence as a punchline.

I don't doubt that she had to "be cool with it" in order to further her career. These are the kinds of compromises LGBTQ people go through in order to survive and get opportunity.

Just because she was "cool" with Dave's "jokes" towards her, doesn't mean that such a wide reaching platform didn't open the door for others to target her outside of his brand of humor.

It's essentially irresponsible to not consider the other possible implications happening.

Right now, if you're more concerned about how this will look for Dave Chappelle than mourning the death of Daphne right now, then you're proving the point that his transphobia is deemed more valuable than her life.