the transphobic Dave 'I'm on Team TERF' Chappelle and Netflix get raked over the coals

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Dave Chappelle’s controversial comedy special is a catalyst for change as Netflix walkout leads to calls for reform

When it comes to the controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer,” Netflix seems to have hit a nerve affecting both employees and boldfacers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/20/netflix-chappelle-controversy/

Netflix employees at the streaming giant’s campuses around the world walked off the job Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s latest special, the company’s defense of the comedian and its dismissal of concerns that the content was dangerously transphobic.

A crowd of dozens gathered outside the streamer’s West Hollywood offices to denounce both Chappelle and the company’s chief executive, Ted Sarandos, who has stood by “The Closer” after employees, LGBTQ organizations and the platform’s own talent likened the special to hate speech. Some supporters of Chappelle also attended the rally, clashing with protesters as they urged Netflix not to limit speech and held up signs with messages such as “Jokes are funny.”

“We’re here today not because we can’t take a joke," Ashlee Marie Preston, a media personality and the walkout’s organizer, told rallygoers. “We’re here today because the jokes are taking lives.”

The one-day walkout followed weeks of simmering complaints and punctuates the collision of the comedian’s popularity with the growing movement to protect the rights of transgender people.

Netflix made a mess of the Dave Chappelle controversy. It's a crisis of Netflix's own making

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/21/media/netflix-dave-chappelle-analysis/index.html

New York (CNN Business)The Dave Chappelle comedy special, "The Closer," has thrust Netflix into its biggest crisis ever. It's a mess of the company's own making.

Chappelle's special, which debuted on Netflix earlier this month, caused a firestorm inside and outside the company. It includes several jokes about trans people that some found deeply offensive. Netflix has stood by the special, even after it was criticized as transphobic by some LGBTQ+ advocates, artists and even Netflix's own employees.

"Promoting [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] ideology (which is what we did by giving it a platform yesterday) directly harms trans people," Terra Field, a senior software engineer at Netflix, tweeted earlier this month. "It is not some neutral act."

Link to tweet

But Netflix's strategy — offering a trove of diverse content without much editorial supervision — has made the company a huge success. Intervening in Chappelle's special isn't so simple.

Dave Chappelle insulted another audience no one mentions

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/20/entertainment/dave-chappelle-controversy-netflix-black-comic-tradition/index.html

(CNN)Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special may have attracted a barrage of criticism from the LGBTQ community, but there is another group that he has offended that no one mentions: The long list of iconic Black comics who affirmed gender nonconforming people or were members of the LGBTQ community themselves.

Richard Pryor was bisexual and raised money for a gay rights organization. "Moms Mabley,' who was the first Black female standup comic to go mainstream, was a lesbian.

Cross-dressing Black men have created some of the enduring comic characters in Black comic history, from comedian's Flip Wilson's sassy "The Devil Made Me Do it" character of "Geraldine" to Tyler Perry's "Madea."

Black comics have indeed peddled their fair share of harmful stereotypes about LGBTQ people. Eddie Murphy, for example, unleashed a blistering series of homophobic slurs in his early standup routines -- performances for which he's since apologized.

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1. Netflix allowed Terfs and Fascists onto their property to harass employees

The ones who walked out. They screamed at them, degraded the, literally attacked them, and Netflix not only allowed it, they opened the gates for them. Maybe they even colluded with the groups, who fucking knows.

Chappelle has always sucked, sorry. He has been gross about women and LGBT for years.

He wasn't even friends with Daphne! And, deadgendered her in his special after she died!

[RFCalifornia]

10. How do I rec your post? nt

[BannonsLiver]

2. Meh

People cheering for Netflix’s demise may be disappointed. Their stock price is UP since the controversy and it’s highly unlikely that the Chappelle situation will fundamentally alter their ability to generate revenue.

As a subscriber I think the low budget foreign language dreck they throw up every month and rebrand as “Netflix originals” is more of a threat to their business than the Chappelle blowback. There’s a lot of really shitty content on Netflix that isn’t offensive, it’s just plain bad.

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3. not cheering on their demise at all, I like a lot of their shows, I want them to dump Chappelle nt

[obamanut2012]

4. Yup, and put some safeguards in place

[Elessar Zappa]

5. Netflix won't be hurt by this but

I wish they’d stop doing Chappelle specials. I’m not that sensitive and I give tons of leeway when it comes to comedy but Chappelle just crosses the line.

[BannonsLiver]

6. Given that his deal with Netflix has been completed

And he has said he doesn’t want to do any more specials, it’s unlikely Chappelle and Netflix would come to an agreement on another deal anytime soon.

[Sympthsical]

7. It was his last special

He had a contract with them to do 6 specials. "The Closer" was the sixth. Got a big payday out of it.

The relationship can be severed with no real repercussions to anyone.

All that's left is the PR wrangling.

[Haggard Celine]

8. I don't know why he was given a special on Netflix anyway.

He isn't funny. I realize there aren't many humorous comedians out there these days, but the last time I saw Chappelle I kept waiting for a good laugh and it never came. You really can't afford to alienate people when your act is stale and overhyped to begin with.

[cbabe]

9. My local npr radio station did a one hour

program two nights ago ‘selling’ Netflix programs. Marketing efforts are everywhere.

I asked when the station was going to doa program on actual Netflix news.

Crickets.

[ibegurpard]

11. I would LOVE to know

How many of the Dave Chapelle die-hard defenders participated in the drive to "cancel" Amy Schumer... one of the reasons Netflix got rid of user reviews.
I haven't watched it and won't. If trans people are offended by what he says I take them at their word. I'm not going to advocate Netflix pulling it but I sure as hell am fine with people voicing their disdain with Chapelle. I loved Hannah Gadsby's pushback on Netflix using her as a prop to defend themselves.