Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.
“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).
It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.
That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.
He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.
Perhaps, perhaps not. Andrew Doyle speaks about how the modern social justice movement has lots of similarities to religious fundamentalism: https://www.amazon.com/New-Puritans-Religion-Justice-Captured-ebook/dp/B09FJL1LFF
A lot of what’s happening in this thread looks exactly like religious puritanism did. Reality-defying language, liturgy, shunning, extremism, hatred towards people who think even mildly differently.