Dave Chappelle hasn’t performed comedy on TV in more than a decade, so when it was announced that he was doing two comedy specials for Netflix, his fan base was ecstatic.
Unfortunately for Chappelle, the culture has changed significantly since 2006, but his comedy hasn’t. Many of the same fans who loved his TV show had turned into social justice warriors and are now lambasting his comedy specials as anti-transgender and anti-gay.
But Chappelle’s material was homophobic and transphobic and involved rape culture. I’ve grown too much not to speak up about it now.
— April (@ReignOfApril) March 22, 2017
I was really offended by the transphobic jokes of #DaveChappelle. Hurt actually.
— King Kortney? (@fakerapper) March 22, 2017
If all he’s gonna do is spout homophobia & transphobia on stage, maybe Dave Chappelle should have stayed retired.
— Heautontimoroumenos (@paulengelhard) March 23, 2017
Heads up: The new Dave Chappelle specials on Netflix are pretty homophobic and transphobic. https://t.co/6RJH1mIskN pic.twitter.com/jUZ8R7TdkF
— Reddit LGBT (@redditlgbt) March 22, 2017
Here are just two of the controversial jokes Chappelle’s critics are talking about:
“L. G. B. T. Q?! I was like what the f**k is the Q? Does that even make sense, Q? Turns out Q is like the vowels, that s**t is sometimes ‘Y’. It’s for gay dudes that don’t really know they’re gay. You know what I mean? Like prison fags who are like: ‘What? I’m not gay n***a, I’m just sucking these d***s to pass the time.’”
“Whenever I see one of them Ts on the street I’m like ‘I don’t mind them, but man I miss Bruce.'”
The beauty of capitalism is if social justice warriors find these jokes too offensive for their virgin ears, they could always change the channel.
