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WHAT IS DAVE CHAPPELLE’S PROBLEM WH GAY PEOPLE?
Dave Chapelle didn’t jt offend the LGBTQ muny wh his latt standup special. He betrayed the legacy of the Black ic tradn he hered. Some of the most inic Black edians were eher gay or affirmed them their performanc. * dave chappelle lgbt *
"In our untry, you n shoot and kill a n**** but you better not hurt a gay person's feelgs, " Chappelle quipped.
"Chapelle's transphobia & lack of unrstandg that Blk ppl n be both Black *&* gay shows exactly why 's cril to unrstand tersectnaly & how Blk cishet men, spe beg margalized for their Blkns, n perpetuate systems of opprsn, " Dr. The Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn also cricized the edian.
"The edian end the special by sayg he would not be makg anymore jok about gay people until everyone agreed "we are lghg together, " so long as the LGBTQ+ muny stopped takg away job opportuni om people who offend them. She was a edian her soul, " Chappelle said, before explag that he will no longer tell jok wh gay people as the punchle.
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"Empathy is not gay.
Addrsg “the LBGTQ [sic] muny directly, ” Chappelle says that he peace while wishg to “negotiate the release of DaBaby”—the chart-toppg rapper who ma some homophobic ments durg his set at Miami’s Rollg Loud ftival back July—before exprsg how jealo he is of the progrs that the LGBTQ muny has ma pared to Black people, and reuntg the time a gay whe man lled the police on him At after Chappelle nonted the man about filmg him and his wife bar.
” Here, Chappelle is referrg to the Black men he’s prevly ced The Closer—DaBaby, Kev Hart, and himself—who have been, his ey, victimized (translatn: missed out on some job opportuni, while remag very rich and popular) by the LGBTQ muny for tellg transphobic and homophobic jok, or makg homophobic ments, and ially refg to apologize for them. Richard Pryor was bisexual and raised money for a gay rights anizatn. Eddie Murphy, for example, unleashed a blisterg seri of homophobic slurs his early standup rout – performanc for which he’s sce apologized.