Dave Chappelle calls monkeypox a "gay disease"

Dave has nothing BUT defenders. Sigh.

[QUOTE]During the show, which premiered in October 2021, the comedian mused about the controversy surrounding JK Rowling before declaring he agreed with her, saying “gender is a fact”.

[QUOTE]He said: “I am not saying that to say trans women aren’t women, I am just saying that those pussies that they got… you know what I mean? I’m not saying it’s not pussy, but it’s Beyond pussy or Impossible pussy. It tastes like pussy, but that’s not quite what it is, is it?”

😂😂😂 Omfg, Dave is hilarious.

The transphobia to homophobia pipeline remains as strong as ever.

[quote]“He chided a woman in the front row for wearing a mask, called monkeypox a ‘gay disease’ and accused The Price Is Right of being racist.”

Breitbart is eating it up...

[quote]Larry Rom Thomas: Oh, oh, call them groomers and watch the fun start. Reeee!

[quote]Tommy Brightman: Truth hurts; keep them butt cheeks tight and Monkeypox doesn't move around; Chappelle is right 🐵😎

[quote]Lucas Fernandez: I have always loved Dave for his talent. All of this is just icing on the cake!!

[quote]Judith Nelms: Yes it is

[quote]Darla Rakestraw: Good for him for calling it out what it is

[quote]Keneth Sanders: Bwahaha he’s totally right.

[quote]Chris Farley: Monkey pox is literally an std in the herpes family passed by gays only

[quote]Keith Treadwell: I agree. A higher power has decided identify residents of the Neo Sodom and Gomorrah!

[quote]Justin Pino: Its a disease of the unvaginated

[quote]Abraham Kurian: All gays, lesbians, sexual immorals, fornicators, adulterers, child abusers, satanic worshippers will burn in living hell forever. Repent or Perish.

[quote]Ruth Brown: AIDS was/is a gay disease too. Diseases due to unwholesome and abnormal lifestyles.

[quote]Any defenders now?

Nothing worse than what's been said on the numerous Monkeypox threads on here.

It is primarily transmitted by sex between men. It's not homophobic to say so.

There are about 30 threads on this fact on the forum already. Vaccines are being prioritized to gay men, as they should be.

It's a fact, jack

Awesome, R6. Do you agree with Ruth Brown, too?

Ruth Brown? The singer? What the hell does she have to do with this, R7?

It's mostly gay males getting it, at this point. Right?

Yes. So Dave's right. Stop being a pussy.

Ok, r7, your plan sounds great: why don't we totally play down that we are the ones most at risk here and get the media to go along by censoring any reference to that fact.

That will work out SWIMMINGLY: Then the health authorities will be forced to pretend that everyone in the population is equally at risk, and the straights will be added to the waiting lists for the vaccine, with actual gay men, who truly need them, being shunted to the bottom.

Sounds TERRIFIC, r7. You should be made head of WHO.

OP back in the day some referred to AIDS as a 'lifestyle disease'. Certain types of behavior put you more at risk. Fortunately, there is a vaccine for the pox

He's got that familiar "I know everything because I'm not white" look.

Aren't his main fans the white Wokiellennials? Does he really have a 'black' following?

The proper, NPR approved language would have been "a condition that disproportionally affects gay and {fill in the blank} people".

The only issue I see with framing MP as a "gay" disease is that people are so unbelievably, unbearably stupid. The forming consensus among those afflicted with this severe retardation seems to be that MP is spread via anal sex. The reality is intimate contact is enough. I do hope, though, when it begins to spread among these idiots, that they wail and cry but mostly suffer in unvaccinated silence, too ashamed to seek medical attention for their "gay" disease.

he's a homophobic pile of shit. who cares?

Is he saying that monkeys are gay? Because the disease came from monkeys.

"It's funny 'cuz it's true!"

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It feels reductive (“look it up”) to describe monkeypox as a gay disease in that it can spread between anyone, but the spread right now is confined mainly within the group of men that have sex with men. But that’s only for now. And that’s not going to be the case much longer imo, and that seems very shortsighted on everyone else’s behalf. I’m sure it’s already spreading though the straight population, but since they’re less attuned to being tested regularly and they’re probably embarrassed about getting a ‘gay disease’ that hardly any of them are going to the doctor with it.

They said it’s being spread at events like pool parties and dancing where there is a lot of physical contact. That is not limited to gay people. He seems ignorant.

Of course he's wrong in calling it a gay disease. It's not.

However, so far, it seem to be affecting gay men more than any other subset of humans. Frankly, as a gay man, I'm glad I've been warned about how it seems to be spreading thus far. That way I can take appropriate precautions.

As far as Chapelle, I don't find him funny. Couldn't care less about him one way or another.

Was it not Marsha P. Johnson who famously said "Up the butt, Bob?"

The issue with Chappelle is the contempt for gay men he displays when he says these things.

Yes, those infants who are now reported to have monkeypox are gay

I’ve never found Chappelle to so funny. I don’t understand his cult following

R26 Because the media is so hellbent on casting MP as an STI alone, the braying from the stupids is that those kids must have been abused.

[quote] Larry Rom Thomas: Oh, oh, call them groomers and watch the fun start. Reeee!

I don’t speak “three wolf moon.” Could someone in flyover explain what Reeee! means? Thanks.

R16, that's incorrect. If you read the link at R6, sex is overwhelmingly the reason for transmission.

[quote]“These data point clearly to the fact that infections are so far almost exclusively occurring among men who have sex with men,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University, of the new study, which was published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. “And the clinical presentation of these infections suggest that sexual transmission, not just close physical contact, may be helping spread the virus among this population.”

Get the vaccine!

Making fun of a woman wearing a mask in a huge crowd. Fuck you Dave.

Calm your tits r31.

Does this mean I can add blackface back into the routine?

It's just comedy after all.

Well....it is!

Like Chappelle or hate Chappelle it doesn't really matter. What is disturbing about this goes beyond Chappelle. What is happening is that the Twitter crowd, mostly made up of crazed progressives, have decided that you can't make fun of anything any longer, unless it's stuff that they deem okay to joke about. This is not just a Chappelle thing and what you're going to see is more comics abandon certain audiences because they can't laugh about themselves any longer and that is a shame. Some of the most iconic comedy bits in the history of comedy are not nice.

So, that's a yes, R35?

It would never occur to me to stop listening to a comic because he said something that offended me. I'm a big boy, I can take it.

[quote] Any defenders now?

Oh, look, another stupid liberal throwing a temper tantrum. Idiot, we defend his right to say it. It has nothing to do with the content. If you don’t like him, don’t see his show.

[quote] I’ve never found Chappelle to so funny. I don’t understand his cult following

Cult following? Man, progressive loons really live in a bubble. Wait until you see what’s going to happen in November, dumbass.

Is he a secret faggot? Because he seems obsessed with faggotry.

Maybe he needs a hard dick in his ass.

[quote]Cult following? Man, progressive loons really live in a bubble. Wait until you see what’s going to happen in November, dumbass.

You sure are angry for someone who's apparently about to experience something wonderful.

Maybe karma will bring him cancer one day for all the hate he spreads.

[quote]Aren't his main fans the white Wokiellennials? Does he really have a 'black' following?

Of course he has a black following! You must have been confused by the VIP ticket line at the Minneapolis show. His other fans had to wait at the back entrance.

Why is someone who looks like a monkey making fun of Monkeypox?

And doesn’t this monkey know that it’s actually an African disease?

R43 Most of his fans are white because he’s a coon.

Not cool

R40, no he's a comic who naturally is going to make jokes about people who say he shouldn't be allowed to make jokes about them.

Is he even funny? He seems lame.

[quote]Yes. So Dave's right. Stop being a pussy.

How long are we going to pretend like this is still a gay board?

R48 he was never funny.

Also, it is little known but he is a Muslim. So he is probably homophobic and transphobic.

He’s a genius at times

[quote] What is disturbing about this goes beyond Chappelle. What is happening is that the Twitter crowd

Fuck the Twitter crowd and your obsession with the Twitter crowd, and fuck Chappelle for using "the Twitter crowd" as an excuse, which he absolutely does. He says in a routine that he doesn't care about Twitter, but the reason he says all this "gay disease" "trans want to kill me" shit is because the Twitter crowd gets mad about it. That's called trolling, and trolling is inherently unfunny. It's only funny to the rightwingers and troll losers whose only source of humor is "stickin' it to the [whatever group they don't like right now.]"

And even then, it's not really funny to them, it's just the kind of skewed amusement assholes get when they're being assholes for a second or two. It doesn't last, that's why they keep being assholes 100 times a day.

It's embarrassing that a gay board has dozens of posters who saw this and didn't even think for a second about the same comments made during the AIDS epidemic.

True ☝🏼

Karma works in strange ways R42

His victimhood is never questioned, nor is his bigotry. That said, he is a very funny and talented man.

Chappelle is funny and perceptive and it's even more hilarious when the wokiest of the woke try to cancel him. That's an added layer of hilarity.

[quote]Also, it is little known but he is a Muslim

Does he ever joke about his own religion?

He talks about it sometimes, but does not joke about it. I went looking for Chappelle joking about his own religion and found examples of other Muslim comedians joking about Islam, but nothing from him.

Aha - thanks, R59. He refers to himself as an “equal opportunity offender,” so that’s an interesting tidbit.

Then we should be hearing his jokes about straight Black guys, Muslims, AAPI folks, and interracial couples. We don’t, so his equal opportunity offender status is untrue, or at the very least, rings quite hollow.

Well. his wife is Filipino, so he’s probably made at least a few jokes about her ethnicity.

Let’s see if the lgbtq activists give a damn about this. I doubt it. Only trans trans trans.

I thought some of y'all were about "freedom of speech"? So why the constant whining about "progressives" and "woke" all the time? He has the right to say what he wants...others have the right to call him out on his bullshit.

Fair game. Right? Oh wait...

OK , here he is, joking about Filipinos, but his bitterness is directed at how “emasculated” Filipino men are. He blames this on their having to take care of the children while their wives, who work overseas, are the breadwinners. You can see in this clip how his fear of independent women and authoritarian white men contributes to his homophobia:

Go Dave !

R65, You’re only against him because you’re a TRA. Everyone can see through you.

Dave Chappelle is a nasty piece of shit and he has always has been exactly that.

TRA?

Straight whitebros love Dave Chappelle though.

R69, Yes your only piling on Chappelle because all the trannys are. You expect us to believe lgbtqqq give a fuck about gay people? Wake up. You’re fooling nobody here.

R22 I strongly doubt that the vast majority of cases are transmitted by dancing and sharing pool water. Isn't it just sensible to use condoms until you got a vaccine? How can it be this much of a problem? And if it is, please don't be judgemental if it comes to overpopulation in Africa or unwanted pregnancies if it's generally too much to demand of someone to use a condom, at least very temporarily - until you got a vaccine.

Are antifa going to get Kevin Hart shows shut down too?? Hell no. He only attacked gay black men not straight white trannys.

Dave Chappelle has always been an overrated piece of shit. I would love to nothing more than to sock that little midget in the face.

The thing about Chappelle, and a handful of other comedians like him aging out, is that in their third act they've become awfully predictable. Once great talents with some fairly interesting ways of seeing and interpreting the world have descended into the most predictable whining about a world they can't seem to understand anymore, resorting to the old stereotypes and bigotries they use to so cleverly call out. I don't know if it's actual conviction, or they just see the 'fuck the woke/PC' crowd as where the money is these days. Like it makes them counter-culture for the current times. It really doesn't though. I'm as un-PC as it gets, but even I have to admit that the comedy itself just isn't really all that sharp anymore.

[quote] The thing about Chappelle, and a handful of other comedians like him aging out, is that in their third act they've become awfully predictable.

Let him drown in Cambodian breast milk.

This man will go down in history as the best comic of his generation and possibly all time. You gotta love how TRAs are pretending to be offended by this comment but really they’re mad he called out trannys on their make believe.

[quote] This man will go down in history as the best comic of his generation and possibly all time.

What a stupid fucking dumbass.

Dave is hardly transphobic, having had a trans friend whom he helped out greatly. The jokes he made about trans people don’t hold a candle to things he’s said about gay men (and a butch lesbian or two).

[quote] other comedians like him aging out, i

He is desperate. He knows he is irrelevant.

Rr78, Yes you and everyone else pretending to be appalled in this thread are dumbasses. You wouldn’t care about this if he hasn’t set the trannys off.

Trans women are men and trans men are women.

Of course, he's right. But he's being a dick about it, as usual. It's all about the intent. And his intent is to dismiss and demean gay men and their present issues (like Monkeypox).

R81, IDGAF about trannies.

But I am very, very familiar with little tiny douchebros like you.

[quote]Once great talents with some fairly interesting ways of seeing and interpreting the world have descended into the most predictable whining about a world they can't seem to understand anymore, resorting to the old stereotypes and bigotries they use to so cleverly call out.

I agree 100% I remember when Chapelle was a young guest on Letterman, and he was pure fire. A comic prodigy. over time, he’s become a sanctimonious social commentator. which is frankly embarrassing because he used to be truly fresh and irreverent. Now he’s a fragile, old NIMBY who complains about every little criticism aimed at him.

R84, of course you care about trans. That’s why you’re piling on Dave.

[quote] he was pure fire.

He never was.

Richard Pryor wannabe.

Wasn’t Richard Pryor an avid cocksucker? The irony.

R88, at least Richard Pryor was original.

r85. Hardly anybody remains fresh and innovative for decades. Madonna, Howard Stern, Bill Maher, etc. They all get old, stale, and massive sell outs.

I agree, R89. But Chappelle was still one of the best for his time. That said, I wonder how he felt about Pryor after his bisexuality became public.

R91, Chappelle bored me.

He always came across to me like such a tryhard wannabe.

If he was actually funny, I would admit it.

Chappell is more popular than ever

Dave — your bot is misspelling your name.

He looks like Viola Davis' ugly blacker sister.

He's basically just another raging bigot these days, shame on him and anyone who defends him at this point.

He should have called it Gay Sluts & Whores Disease.

It wasn't even a year ago when he said he was going to stop doing jokes about the LGBT community, but he's obviously continued. At the time, he said the entire community was "punching down" on the black community.

[quote]At the end of the set, Chappelle pledged to stop performing material about the LGBTQ community. “I’m done talking about it. All I ask of your community, with all humility: Will you please stop punching down on my people?”

My real issue with that was that he wasn't asking rich whites, like his racist friend Elon Musk, to stop discriminating. He wasn't asking whites in general. He wasn't asking conservatives, who are responsible for all the legislation and gerrymandering that takes the power of the vote away from the black demographic. Instead, he asked LGBTs to stop "punching down" on blacks.

I didn't understand then, and I don't understand now, why he thinks gays are taking away the rights of blacks, or why he thinks lesbians are keeping the black community down, etc. It doesn't make sense.

Now that it's been several months and he's obviously continued to make jokes about the LGBT community, mostly trans but more than a few homophobic jibes in there as well, it's clear he's got a true beef with anyone LGBT. I no longer care to understand why. At some point, enough is enough. The mainstream and Netflix will continue to love him because he's their unicorn: a black man, perceived as a liberal, but who spouts right-wing talking points. They will continue to throw bags of money at him for as long as he can keep sugar-coating right-wing propaganda for the consumption of centrists and light-left liberals.

[quote]Dave is hardly transphobic, having had a trans friend whom he helped out greatly.

If a white comedian known for racist jokes told a long, sad story about his one black friend, and said "I can't be racist, I had a black friend once," Dave Chappelle would be at the front of the line to kick that racist comedian's ass.

No op people aren't going to be on your side still over your troon delusions.

He's a comedian. I need to know the full context.

He's an ugly little piece of shit.

[quote] Dave Chappelle has always been an overrated piece of shit.

We prefer the underrated ones.

[quote] He's an ugly little piece of shit.

We prefer the handsome ones.

[quote] Any defenders now?

I'd love to punch him in the face.

[quote] I'd love to punch him in the face.

Do you think he wants to punch you?

This is the same guy who whined like a little bitch and begged Netflux to pull his old shoe cause he felt he wasn't compensated enough, no?

This is the same guy who whined like a little bitch and begged Netflix to pull his old show cause he felt he wasn't compensated enough, no?

R107, he's a little scaredy cunt.

Fat and tired.

[quote] Do you think he wants to punch you?

I don't know or care.

I would fuck his ass up.

[quote] I would fuck his ass up.

With your penis? Or your fists?

Does he ever make fun of BLM and Black victimhood. Cause a person that really has a sense of humor is making fun of himself and his own (like Jewish jokes). Making fun of others means just being an asshole, every nasty frau can do it.

Even though, all these black homophobic guys are mighty suspect when it comes to sexuality. They are all straight and despise gays, but surely spread a lot of Aids that they got while practicing homosex on the down low on their poor women.

[quote] If a white comedian known for racist jokes told a long, sad story about his one black friend, and said "I can't be racist, I had a black friend once," Dave Chappelle would be at the front of the line to kick that racist comedian's ass.

R99 We've all literally been lectured for the past couple years (let alone decades) that we shouldn't do that. How ignorant it makes one come off. And rightfully so. And we often ask the same. Your 'one black friend', 'one gay friend' etc. is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. But Dave does it with the trans issue (and with someone who is dead, mind you, and can't even speak for themselves any longer), and he's A-Ok?

[quote]he used to be truly fresh and irreverent. Now he’s a fragile, old NIMBY

Isn't this true of EVERY comic who makes it big? They can no longer relate to the common man once they reach a certain level of fame and fortune. His act can't reflect an "every man" life anymore because he no longer 'lives' an "every man" life. Nothing new here.

I agree with Dave chappelle on several things. Art should have no limitations. Art suppose to offend. Comedy is a form of art and it supposed to make any group feel uncomfortable. Comedians should not be constrained by wokenism they suppose to challenge it. A good comedian will make you feel uncomfortable while expressing their rights to be offensive while a lazy comedian will toll the line of political correctiveness instead of defending the right to speak recklessly.

[quote]Art suppose to offend.

Disagree. Art is supposed to inspire and elevate. Art should be beautiful (IMHO).

Love Dave and love his comedy. But I wouldn't call it "art". He entertains.

Defender? No. I just don't give a shit.

Monkeypox is only an issue within the PSP (people who have sex with other people) community. Not my problem.

[quote]Comedians should not be constrained by wokenism they suppose to challenge it.

We get the dumbest, clumsiest trolls, and yet people still can't tell who is a troll and who isn't.

R112 you clearly haven't watched his shows. Why do you think you know enough to make commentary on what type of person he is?

Also I don't think your post could be more racist if you tried.

OP WHY are you posting links from Pink News? They are the biggest source of "queer" bullshit, most of it propaganda about trans people. They aren't even internally consistent - they were inciting attacks against a LGB charity last month for pointing out that monkeypox was predominately affecting gay and bi men and calling for caution during pride, and this month PinkNews themselves are pointing out that it's predominately affecting gay and bi men, while the old article is still up.

Chappelle is going to joke, he may or may not be serious, he is a comedian. And gay people aren't as sensitive as trans people so no, we aren't going to collectively start protesting his gigs because you think he is homophobic.

The article they cribbed the monkeypox comment from is mainly whining about the high prices for tickets. The reason he can charge those high prices is because of the "controversies" that places like Pink News generate and spread.

You aren't going to be able to cancel him, and continuing to try (as OP is) is just going to make him MORE popular. Everything done up to now has just made him more popular and made him more money.

I find a couple of things interesting in this thread. Chappelle hasn't said anything nearly has homophobic and cruel as some of the comments in the monkey-pox threads on Datalounge. Are we supposed to ignore that monkey-pox is affecting gay men in larger numbers than everyone else? Dave can't talk about that, but you guys can call gay men sluts and whores?

Then you've got the people who are upset that he's making jokes about trans people, but that he hasn't made any jokes about black people or Muslims. What does that say about those posters? Dave can only joke about the people you hate? BTW, Chappelle has made quite a few jokes about black people.

I am not against trans people, but I'm not sure why everyone is supposed to tip toe around them and treat them like they're some special class of person who can't be joked about. Even if Chappelle wasn't joking about it, some of that trans and gender stuff is funny. If you're brave enough to change your gender, then you've brave enough to deal with jokes about it. Because again, it's funny and laughter brings understanding. This whole idea of putting trans people into a protective bubble is stupid.

I am so tired of dyed blue-haired fat white women calling themselves queer and deciding what is and isn't okay to find funny.

R53, I remember that - vaguely, because we got through it. I remember the fury about Andrew Dice Clay - vaguely.

My view is comedians don't lead, as a rule, they follow. They are take something popular and punch holes in it (Joan Rivers) or they tap into what people are actually thinking but don't say. Comedians often are valves that let off our steam for us. It isn't nice when you're the target of their material but more often than not, comedians are mirrors of society. And you can't sell what people won't buy. So if they're buying something ugly, the problem isn't comedians

So if we're gonna freak out, freak out about society or freak out about ourselves having in a matter of weeks taken bad luck and managed to make monkeypox a thing you can write jokes about as "a gay disease". Get to the root causes. But freaking out about Dave Chapelle making his living off mean jokes won't change much because there's another Dave Chapelle happy to fill his shoes and do the same thing. Comedians are a symptom and the world rolls on. None of this freaks me out, personally, though jokes at your own expense are never pleasant.

[quote]OP WHY are you posting links from Pink News? They are the biggest source of "queer" bullshit, most of it propaganda about trans people.

You're defending links to Andy Ngo's propaganda, so shut the fuck up.

What has all you right-wing trolls riled up lately? Trying to take advantage of the break in the January 6 hearings?

I generally don't give too many fucks if a comedian goes out of his way to appeal to edgelords. But framing monkeypox as a gay disease ahead of the return to school should make everyone a bit queasy. Once kids all start passing it to each other, QAnon nuts and the like will really kick their already horrible "groomer" and anti-gay teacher rhetoric into high gear.

[quote]Chappelle hasn't said anything nearly has homophobic and cruel as some of the comments in the monkey-pox threads on Datalounge.

You've just now noticed that this board is full of people who casually use slurs like "faggot, troon, wop, coon, chimping out" etc., I see. Very good. Now, tell me, why is it okay for Chappelle to dredge up the old AIDS-era "gay disease" trope, just because someone on Datalounge called people "faggots" in a Monkeypox thread?

[quote] Are we supposed to ignore that monkey-pox is affecting gay men in larger numbers than everyone else?

This is probably the dumbest argument I've ever heard, and yet you guys keep posting it. Asking a comedian who has been homophobic on several occasions to maybe dial back the homophobia does NOT equal ignoring monkeypox in the gay community, and you are one of the dumbest people on the planet, if you think it does.

Is this "art"?

This thread is filled with far right wing Trumpists. It’s pathetic.

[quote]Chris Farley: Monkey pox is literally an std in the herpes family passed by gays only

Chris Farley? Is he saying this from the grave? Chris, the comedian/actor died in December 1997. He OD'd on cocaine and morphine, better know as a speedball.

[quote]Once kids all start passing it to each other, QAnon nuts and the like will really kick their already horrible "groomer" and anti-gay teacher rhetoric into high gear.

That is not Dave Chappelle's fault.

[quote]Asking a comedian who has been homophobic on several occasions to maybe dial back the homophobia

Listen genius, it's not my place or yours to ask a comedian to do anything. If you don't like what Dave Chappelle says then don't buy a ticket to his show. That solves the problem.

[quote]Now, tell me, why is it okay for Chappelle to dredge up the old AIDS-era "gay disease" trope, just because someone on Datalounge called people "faggots" in a Monkeypox thread?

Because he's a comedian and he can do that.

[quote]Listen genius, it's not my place or yours to ask a comedian to do anything.

If you're too stupid to understand that the rights of freedom of speech go both ways, that's not my problem. Your little outburst here sidesteps the fact that you thought criticizing Dave Chappelle was the exact equivalent of ignoring that the gay community is dealing with a Monkeypox outbreak. I guess even you realized you couldn't continue to defend that bit of idiocy anymore, so you decided to try to deflect, move goalposts, and call names.

At any rate, I think you should continue to post "he can do it because he caaaannnn" in this thread. It's a winner of an argument and you're sure to get far.

DL has so mamy right-wing trolls excusing or out-right defending homophobia it's incredible.

R124 I am not sure what you are on about, but I am not defending "Andy Ngo"'s propaganda, not would I ever post anything from him because he is an odious right wing troll.

Also, you didn't respond to anything I actually said, just hit out with an (invalid) ad hominem attack, which means you have no argument.

[quote]If you're too stupid to understand that the rights of freedom of speech go both ways

Take your head out of your ass and see that Dave Chappelle is not your problem, but if he is, then exercise your right to disagree with him by not buying a ticket to his show. Problem solved.

I'm not the OP, r133. You asked the OP a question. Why would you expect me to answer it?

As for Ngo, I'm referring to you and your fellow anti-trans trolls in the Portland thread. None of you have a problem with Ngo being linked, when it serves your cause. Same with Breitbart and other far-right sites. Yet you're always complaining if someone posts to Pink News or a website you hate. It's hypocritical.

R135 I haven't posted in that thread at all because I saw it was from Andy Ngo. Try again.

You are lashing out (when you aren't busy upvoting your own posts) with completely made up bs.

[quote]I am so tired of dyed blue-haired fat white women calling themselves queer and deciding what is and isn't okay to find funny.

This x1000

[quote]Take your head out of your ass and see that Dave Chappelle is not your problem, but if he is, then exercise your right to disagree with him by not buying a ticket to his show. Problem solved.

Perfect response to the woke tranny troll.

R129, r4 was just posting the usernames of the people who posted those comments. Most of those names sounded real, oddly enough.

The line of defense that comedians have always been edgy and somewhat offensive rings hollow when it comes to Chapelle.

This was the same guy who broke a contract, quit a successful show, and put hundreds of people out of work because he couldn’t handle people at his standup shows yelling “I’m Rick James, bitch!” at him. The mental stress of that and his co-creator smirking at him the wrong way drove him temporarily relocate to Africa.

One of the biggest multimillionaire snowflakes ever telling average people facing a disease epidemic that they are too sensitive about a joke is the height of absurdity.

R140 he had some mental issues and needed some rest, and he had the ability to do it. The show made him even more hugely popular and he couldn't handle the stress, as I understand it, so he took a break. He seems to be doing better now, though.

Also you seem to be implying that Chappelle said, in response to someone being offended at him saying monkeypox was a gay disease during his standup, that they are too sensitive, when I don't think that he actually did that?

The comment was a throwaway line in the middle of a review of a specific show that was primarily complaining about how high the ticket prices were.

The only thing unusual about that Star Tribune review of the show was that they didn't use that line for outrage clicks. Luckily Pink News was there to do so and harvest the rage for $$$.

R141, the fact he made the joke at all means he thinks average people ought to be able to take the joke. A joke, I might add, about a disease which is widely reported to be very painfully at best and in some cases deadly.

Mental issues? Does Chapelle reference or even think about the mental issues gay men confront. Maybe being rejected by much of society and their families cause “mental issues” in these gay men which causes them to seek comfort and camaraderie with other gay men, if they have “the ability to do it.”

Sounds exactly like what Chapelle did, except these gay men aren’t breaking $50 million dollar contracts to get their “rest.”

R143 I've never thought gay men were so fragile as to shriek (for example) "misgendering!" and collapse on our fainting couches but perhaps in this era of intersectionality and victimhood we get social credit for being victims.

R144, I didn’t think Chapelle was out of line for walking away from his show. If he felt offended he could go and good riddance. To take that option, however, then proceed to decry others making the same choice seems at best misguided, and at worst the whining of a pampered, multi-millionaire bubble baby that thinks they are a special case because of their “genius.”

Seems only fair we should be able to tell nigger jokes on the DL without being raked over the coals by snowflakes.

Several arrests at the violent direct action against Dave Chappelle's comedy show in Minneapolis on July 22. Rachel Lee Bean is charged w/felony 1st-degree assault & rioting. She says she's disabled from long covid & needs cash.

R147, I can’t read the Twitter link but I see absolutely no link between criticizing Chapelle for his wrong-headed views and violence by other people. Just because I don’t agree with Chapelle doesn’t mean people like me should have to answer for possibly violent people also disagreeing with him.

R127 That’s the skit that made Chappelle walk away from his show because white audiences didn’t get the point and laughed AT the minstrel pixie instead of relating to its deeper meaning. Soon after, he spiraled into a dark paranoia, believing the others who worked on the show were out to get him, which led to them trying to give him a mental health intervention. Instead, he took an extended vacation in South Africa. Perhaps that’s why he avoids subjects deeply personal to him (such as Islam) these days; he can’t handle being the target of the humor.

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[Quote] Cult following? Man, progressive loons really live in a bubble. Wait until you see what’s going to happen in November, dumbass.

So Russians even have elections in November?

R149, give me a break. The whole “I have anxiety because I’m a misunderstood comic and people don’t laugh the RIGHT way at my jokes” totally negates his “why can’t people take a joke” argument.

R152 I don’t think it negates his argument, but it certainly provides some insight into his own cognitive dissonance and tendency to project.

R153, I agree that it doesn’t negate his feelings at the time but after he made jokes which caused the same exact feelings in others, it negates it.

You don’t get to claim protections you refuse to extend to others. That’s some Clarence Thomas-level bullshit.

r152 Exactly. Anyone that believes that story didn't live thru his melt down... or wasn't aware of it.

Dude was long ass crazy before that... there were Kanye and Tom Cruz like interviews... he went extreme Nation of Islam for a while - until he got schooled by actual muslims that the earth is not hollow nor filled with ancient aliens. Then he was like the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens for a while... but ditched his former brothers, as he ventured towards islamism just shy of terror, but maybe an extra wife or two then seemingly came back to the states and seemingly fell off the face of the earth.

But the man just doesn't support his immediate family, he's not even like the jacksons in brothers, siters, their kids.... but like near 100 family members. Good on him for that to an extent but most seem to be deadbeats. So, even with FU money, he spends too much to actually say FU.

Chappelle was most beloved performing other people's skits. He wasn't a great standup. He's a lousy comedian, reason he got a show, like many other standups, he wasn't popular enough to ask for more $. He wasn't popular enough for a sitcom.,.. the show in his name was only in his name, he was the central actor but it wasn't his show.

His popualarity now is one part nostalgia for that kind of comedy and the other because the current counter cultural revolution gets called rightwing. So, inevitably it will be co-opted by more radicals that fall on the right as well as drag in those that want to be successful for as little as saying things that make college kids cry and spaz out. He'll keep his distance from going full right because his cred is going to be verified by primarily black audiences... and politics of the black community on all this remains largely unchanged with the advent of ados like militias. We never gonna fully address that how ados see everything experience as uniquely separate to all other blacks and every other demographic. . . being gay is being white, having a ittle suga in the tank is alright, lesbos ok but only until she gets over her trauma and finds the right man.

so, the rest of us are fucked while the pendulum swings back to the far right. . . contrary to popular belief, the trump era was the pendulum to the far left.

[quote].. he went extreme Nation of Islam for a while - until he got schooled by actual muslims that the earth is not hollow nor filled with ancient aliens. Then he was like the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens for a while... but ditched his former brothers, as he ventured towards islamism just shy of terror, but maybe an extra wife or two then seemingly came back to the states and seemingly fell off the face of the earth.

R155 Wow - I never heard of this. He sounds like a chameleon.

R155 isn't Aids in today predominantly black people disease. Why doesn't he call it the Black disease then?

r158 He was extremely nutty and resentful because largely he was viewed as a black comic for white people. . . that's where the I think the minstrel myth started to form. Mental health issues are still taboo in many demographics. But let's be real, his standup sucked then as it does now.

Well, he'd never had been a headliner without his show is a nicer way to put it.

I think we could look at it as someone who won the lotto but had no way to manage all the things that come with winning the lotto especially with providing for multiple generations of family and branches. We could also look at it as the reality of a diasporic people cutoff from their own history and that he was desperately trying to find as much meaning in his past as his present or future. albeit, most people struggle with that by 12 and get over it by 16. Family and identity was important to him and became the question of what his legacy was going to be... who are you, if you don't have a past and what if the past isn't somehting you want to know. You know your family's histories in the Americas are going to be shit, so if you're looking for "excellence" "beauty" "pride" you have to search beyond the realm of what you're aware of or is easily found.

Or he's every undergraduate philosophy major that smoked too much weed or tried mushrooms for the first time.

There ws a lot, a lot of tabloid news about his antics when he started going off the rails. . . it made Katt Williams look sane. He wasn't quite Britney level and trying to attract the media, make a scene. More in the Anne Heche territory. If I recall in the day people thought either he was nuts or on angeldust. It wasn't particularly violent, just like a lot of weird shit and just acting out of it - not knowing where he was or what he was doing, even if it was just shopping for groceries and having panic attacks to mini public freaks out wondering how did he get there. . . that kind of crazy. Or yeah, like Anne Heche becoming a lesbian to wandering naked through people's backyards.

He's always been private about his personal life but funny tidbit he's definitely the type that can dish it out but can't take it. That's his trigger. Of course, he can't say that's his trigger because then he'd move from comic, jester, truth-teller, to bully.

It's always interesting to see how long it takes for you so-called "liberals" to pull out your hoods.

R160 I and millions of people disagree with you that his standup sucks, but comedy is subjective. What I don’t like is when he goes into holier-than-thou mode, like many struggling ex-addicts tend to do.

Great insights into his upbringing, though. I do have some sympathy for him being raised in a highly academic family and wanting to be a comic, which probably carried a stigma. (Now he supports them all, ha ha.) Also, his growing up as a black kid in a plush suburb must have added to his feeling of alienation, so it makes total sense that he drifts between different identities. His lack of identity back then along with his sudden fame was a recipe for the drug abuse and severe mental illness.

R162 how do you know he had severe mental illness. Have you seen his medical records. So much bullshit assumption comments about a brilliant comic.

R163 His colleagues on the Chappelle Show were so worried about his bizarre, paranoid behavior that they planned an intervention, but instead he fled to South Africa without telling his wife. I’m not sure if it was drugs, mental illness, or a mixture of the two, but it certainly was not sane or sober behavior.

R164 dave chappelle has addressed that bullshit rumor that he was mentally ill. He stated he was burn out and tired of the minstrel show he had to create to entertain the audience. He stated he would rather walk away from 50 million than keep creating shows that shows black people in negative light.

Chappelle’s impersonation of Asian people, etc. in his recent stand ups is evidence that he simply changed who the minstrels are, which is why he won back the audience he disowned in 2005.

Mentally ill asian-fucker black muslim who thinks he's better than he is.

Black Muslims are so stupid. They convert to Islam because Christians enslaved their ancestors. But it was Arab Muslims who first started the slave trade of black Africans. So, the same shit.

The wokesters who worked at the theater threatened to walk if they hosted Dave. The theater gave in. Most fascism from the progressive left.

I don't see why anyone cares. I've never met and will never meet David Chappelle and I have no interest in going to any of his shows. He can say what he likes, it has no impact on me.

[quote] I am so tired of dyed blue-haired fat white women calling themselves queer and deciding what is and isn't okay to find funny.

I'm way more tired of casual racists who think gay men should shut up and laugh at homophobia.

R167 the only mentally ill individual is you with your projections.

R146 I should be able to make faggot jokes without been blocked if you are allowed to make nigger jokes.

Go for it, both of you. I'm sure it will serve you well.

R116 comedy is thought provoking so it is a form of art in self expression. A good stand up comedy that is reckless and challenge its subjects and audience is art. Reckless with a great deal of detail and purpose is art. Great comedians from the past understood this.

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Wasn't Dave Chappelle lying about his poor background or at least keeping his background private? Both his parents were university professors. He sure didn't grow up in some inner-city ghetto.

"His father, William David Chappelle III, was a professor of vocal performance and the dean of students at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

His mother, Yvonne Seon (née Reed, formerly Chappelle), worked for Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, is a Unitarian Universalist minister, and worked as a professor and university administrator at several institutions including Wright State University and Prince George's Community College. Chappelle has a stepmother and a stepbrother.

Chappelle grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended Woodlin Elementary School. His parents were politically active, and family house visitors included Pete Seeger and Johnny Hartman. Hartman predicted Chappelle would be a comedian and, around this time, Chappelle's comic inspiration came from Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor.

After his parents separated, Chappelle stayed in Washington with his mother while spending summers with his father in Ohio. In high school he worked as an usher in Ford's Theatre. He attended DC's Eastern High School for a short time before transferring to Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he studied theatre arts, graduating in 1991."

Seems like Dave had a comfortable upbringing.

Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

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R179, that’s tame compared to Twitter comments

I don't understand the posters who actively go to right wing rage sites and breathlessly rush back here to post about them. It's like the ones who make posts whenever Trump says something.

I am perfectly happy without having to read the comments on Breitbart, thank you. Anyone with sense knows what they will say.

That some people are being homophobic about monkeypox doesn't mean that it isn't predominately being transmitted currently by gay and bi men, nor does it mean that we shouldn't talk about it. It's embarrassing for us because it makes us look bad, but that's the price we pay for our accepted sexual lifestyles.

And since no one wants to change those lifestyles or have seemingly any restrictions whatsoever on what they do, then that's just something we have to deal with when it comes up. Trying to alter reality simply by not talking about it is just going to make it worse. Or pretending like we aren't the ones spreading it most of all currently and insisting it's an "everyone" problem so that we don't get prioritized for scarce vaccines.

The truth hurts!

Predominantly ^

I used the word correctly, I believe. Predominately is an adverb.

Since 1594!

WTF is going on with this guy?

He used to be funny AF. Now, all he does is bash trans and now he’s getting into monkey-pox?

This bush needs to stop getting his material from DL, and come up with some genuinely funny shit like he used to.

No, you are seeing a few throwaway lines out of a much larger and longer act. They want you to focus on those lines so they can harvest your rage clicks.

You have a point, R186, but it also works in his favor, as he’s getting a LOT of PR as a result.

I’ve been a Chapelle fan since way back in the day. One of the BEST comedians out there.

The reason I take issue with this has nothing to do with the material in the sense that I DO believe he should be able to joke about whatever he wants. Some of the best comedians are the most irreverent ones.

That being said, where I do take issue with the material is that shit’s really dicey out there, politically.

The GOP is amping up borderline to outright hate speech against trans, and I believe they will start leaning in hard on gays and lesbians pretty soon. It’s just how these people roll. They just don’t have anything else to campaign on. These people win elections now, based on hatred of the “others”. Look at those rallies they held this past weekend in Florida and Arizona. The one in Florida was just fucking heinous.

I know Dave needs to make his money, just like the rest of us do, but damn! Why go after people who already have a HUGE target on their backs?

Maybe I’m overreacting, but I don’t think so. Today’s political climate in America is frightening. I’m not sure where we’re headed. But we all know it looks pretty dark.

Why doesn’t he come up with some material directed at the insanity happening in the GOP? Carlin used to do it, and he was smart as a whip and made fantastic points in his comedy, to a mostly white audience.

It’s fair play. Go after THEM, too!

I agree with you R187, it's the laziest form of comedy, punching down on already marginalised groups for a cheap laugh - when he could do what you say, just doesn't seem to have the wit any more. See also Ricky Gervais, unfortunately, who I used to respect.

People say that "it's just comedy" but it ends up normalising regressive attitudes and legitimises people's bigotry, which is overall toxic for society IMO. I do think comedians should be able to joke about pretty much anything - but have a responsibility to be respectful of the current political and social context the content they are creating is being released into.

I’m Shocked there is not major backlash over this . Bad time for gays

In trans world gays don’t exist so it’s not a surprise.

R187 Is like please don't joke about us but you can joke about other oppressed groups. Bitch please you are fair game now take it like a man.

R187, republicans don’t attacks trans. They attack the lgbtq community as a whole because of trans. That’s the whole point of them joining the acronym so they can do the crime and gays and lesbians pay the consequences

Trans people are despicable and actively harming gays and lesbians. Trans people don’t have a target on their back. To the contrary, they’re a Super duper protected class.

R191 mmmm I’m not that poster but he said to go after the different factions of the GOP, who are……not an oppressed group lol.

R193, Neither are trans.

[quote] Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

Joan Rivers said that, hon.

Trans took over the gay organizations and purposely blurred the line between gay and tranny. GLAAD doesn’t even stand for gay and lesbian anymore.

Exactly r196