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(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) If there is anything Dave Chappelle has shown, it is that nothing sticks to him. Chappelle has become a bit of a lightning rod. when it comes to his comedy over the last few years. With Chappelle, there are no sacred cows, and everyone, every group, and every ideology is fair game. He has been relentless on people of all races, religions, political beliefs, and sexual orientations. However, only one has come as hard as they have against Chappelle: “The T’s.”
No one, including anyone here at RedState , missed the drama that exploded after Chappelle’s latest special, which he declared would be his last for a while. Chappelle became the target of the transgender community as a result of some off-color jokes which poked at the true gender identity of a particular transgendered person with whom Dave had developed a friendship.
The friend, who identified as a woman, unfortunately killed herself in the wake of defending Chappelle against the last salvo of hate thrown his way from the T’s. In a touching moment in the special, Chappelle spoke of a trust he had set up for the daughter of his deceased friend — showing that he was willing to do what the transgendered community was not — and how he intended to give those funds to her to help her become whatever she wished to be. In typical Chappelle fashion, he stated that he would turn over the trust to the daughter with a proud announcement of “I knew your father.”
After weeks of temper tantrums from Netflix employees, including the resignation of several, it was clear Chappelle was going nowhere . Chappelle offered numerous times to sit down and discuss the matter with anyone interested. While he stated there were no conditions associated with his demands, he later joked that he had three conditions: First, that they watch his special before sitting down with him; second, that they meet at a time and place of Dave’s choosing, so that he wasn’t ambushed; and third, that anyone involved had to admit that Hannah Gadsby, a transgendered […]
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