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he does have one well-thought message, albeit with incorrect addressing and postage
now that i look it up, he does already condemn israel much more than palestine (and gotten flak for it). he even called israel a war criminal back in oct 2023. i wonder how this hasn't caused certain senators including MAGA to try and cancel him yet...
Typical whataboutist deflection. He tries to hide the fact that he is a snivelling piece of shit.
not really he is just showing the gigantic hypocrisy of some woke fighters.
He's a Muslim, I think it was safe to assume he's not a fan of Israel BEFORE the current iteration of the genocide against Palestinians tbh.
Though I don't even remember his trans jokes being intentionally malicious or anything. More like... Just poor taste and then he doubled down on it.
It hardly matters at this point. Even if it wasn't malicious at first, it became malicious as soon as he doubled down, and tripled down, and quadrupled down...
Not having heard the jokes under "discussion" here, I cannot comment on those specifically. But overall Chappelle's message rings loud and clear (to me) that LGBTQIA+ people, at the end of the day, are still "passing", whereas a black man in that part of the USA can never present as anything other than black, and that makes a HUGE difference.
I'll let him tell it in his own words though: https://youtube.com/shorts/hac3bwgo90g
The point does not stands on its own, rainbow people absolutely can have a hard time "passing", just ask the many gay kids bullied and harassed even when deep in the closet, without even mentioning trans folks.
Even if blackout drunk I managed to forget that, though, "you are fine if you hide who you are" is still a shitty argument to endorse.
A black trans person would absolutely have a hard time passing, but Dave's point is that being open about one's LGBTQIA+ status is a choice (arguably not much of one, except that people do it so... it CAN be put away, when someone is ready to "pass").
Mainly he's saying that black people are people too, and should be considered as such. He has pointed out how unfair he considers the situation that when white gay men wanted marriage equality, a Supreme Court decision came something like 10 years after the major push started, with everyone in Hollywood backing that. Meanwhile, black people have been waiting for equal rights in the USA for 400+ years, and it's like "when is it our turn?"
It seems all too convenient for white men who are also gay or trans or whatever to call it quits when they get theirs, leaving POC behind in the dust, again.
I find like many people judge him without ever even listening to his material, so of course cannot really understand it.
That's dumb as fuck.