Thread by @conor64

There's one claim in this essay on the Chappelle special that I want to discuss real quick:

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To me, this is clearly mistaken, which is to say: Dave Chappelle, other famous comedians, and many not so famous comedians can and do routinely mock, disparage, and poke fun at all sorts of groups, including the ones that the Successor Ideology understands as the most powerful

To be clear, I don't deny that our culture sometimes does devalue trans people. It does, and that's a shame. My claim is that *famous comedian can joke about group with impunity* is true of almost all if not all groups, not evidence of anything about any particular group.

& if a famous comedian is mocking a group you belong to, & you're thinking, *this means my group is devalued* I have good news--on Netflix and in most comedy clubs on any given night a huge diversity of identity groups, all of mine very much included, are getting their oxes gored