South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said that while he has not seen Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special, his jokes might hurt people.
“I haven’t seen the special,” Buttigieg said in a Tuesday interview with Peter Hamby. “I will say that there comes a point where you’re just straight up hurting people, and I don’t know what goal you’re hoping to achieve.”
Part 2 of my interview w Pete Buttigieg: His response to Twitter people who think he’s not gay enough, call-out culture, The Joker, Todd Phillips and how Dave Chappelle’s jokes about transgender people are “hurting people”
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— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) October 15, 2019
In August, Chappelle released a Netflix comedy special Sticks & Stones which was well-received by audiences, despite a chill reception from many critics for being insensitive, especially toward transgender people.
During a CNN town hall on gay and transgender issues last week, Buttigieg was interrupted by transgender protesters who shouted, “Trans people are dying!” and “Trans lives matter!”
“There is no right or wrong way to be gay, to be queer, to be trans, and I hope that our own community, even as we struggle to define what our identity means, defines it in way that lets everybody know that they belong among us,” the 37-year-old mayor said at the town hall.
He was also asked in the most recent interview about people who said he was “not gay enough” to be president.
“I am who I am,” he said. “The whole process of coming out was realizing that I only got to be one person.”
