The truth is that Chappelle is more or less the modal black Democratic Party voter — ultra-woke on things pertaining to blacks and by far the least woke on any other progressive cause, especially feminism and gender stuff
And unfriendly to Israel
First reference to Space Jews meant people who left earth and came back to take it back (ie Israel), second to victims who go elsewhere to become oppressors (ie Israel)
He took care to say offensive things about every other group — more offensive in fact than the trans stuff — in order to throw the disproportionate obsession on trans in high relief
“The latter is just an effect of single party bloc voting by a far more culturally diverse group.”
Right, exactly.
Chappelle’s is a slightly older form of wokeness that predates defunding police and micro aggression discourse, consistent with polling that shows blacks supporting reparations etc.
Better than decent chance Netflix eventually caves
Reasonable to expect 1.) statement of desire to listen and learn, 2.) implied promise never to let similar content on the platform again 3.) no more Dave, 10X more Gadsby & co. going forward
One by one, people and institutions realize that in order to remain tethered to the reality that is the basis of their enterprise, they must pass through the simulation
I don't of course merit inclusion of the list. I am not an activist engaged in any effort to litigate or legislate against CRT. I am merely an independent commentator who has some views critical of it.
This is enough to get me tagged an enemy.
They will hurt whomever they perceive standing in the way of their cause without regard for proportionality or accuracy: this act is in turn revealing of the character and nature of their cause itself
It was always going to be tricky to both be the primary organization defending and advancing LGBTQ rights and the primary organization defending the right to call people faggots.
There was a unique power to that configuration so long as the principle was held in high esteem.
The premise of the organization is that the ability to do the former is dependent on the ability to do the latter
But what if we made a turn where the powerful all smiled on LGBTQ rights and so there is no need to protect advocacy of LGBTQ as a form of "unpopular speech" and we can simply ban the bad unpopular speech while continuing to support the good, popular speech?
A lot of reporting that goes viral these days is just exposing to the wider world the truth about intra-female social dynamics
I don't mean that all female social dynamics inexorably lead to the fatal terminus of the Kidney story or the TimesUp meltdown. I mean that there is a distinctively gendered character to the *way* in which things go awry that is more salient as more women lead organizations
We already know a lot about the dynamics of male organizational and social dysfunction, often terminating in overt violence...