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.
He specifically says that that’s what he feels. There’s a bit in the new special where he talks about meeting Jim Carrey, who was at the time doing a method acting exercise on his Andy Kaufman role in “Man in the Moon”. Dave says that he could see that it was Jim, not Andy, and that that’s how he feels about trans people.
I’m all for changing how people actualize feelings of weirdness when it comes to trans people (and other things people consider weird), because those feelings may manifest themselves as hatred and bigotry. I’m not sure about the effectiveness of trying to change that people feel weird about such things.
When white people say being around black people makes them feel unsafe, like they’re going to be mugged… that’s racist. I don’t give a shit that Dave feels like a trans women is a man. He’s transphobic. It’s his problem, not mine. If he has trouble walking around all day without fixating on what genitals someone has a birth that’s something he needs to see someone about.
Aren’t you fixating on the genitals by saying that? Human sexuality is a bit more than genitals, even in the conservative definition. It’s literally encoded in every cell of our bodies, affecting almost everything.
No I’m not. I’m making a simple statement not an all inclusive one. If you are trans you can have whatever body parts you want and be whatever you want. It’s none of my business what so ever.
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