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Comedians like Dave Chapelle, Louis CK, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Bill Burr, and many, many others, kick in every direction: up, down, left, right. Policing com
by dlivingston 6y ago
Comedians like Dave Chapelle, Louis CK, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Bill Burr, and many, many others, kick in every direction: up, down, left, right. Policing comedy with a lens of wokeness is a profoundly bad idea.
- selimthegrim 6y agoChappelle has gotten a lot of stick for it lately if you haven’t noticed.
- dlivingston 6y agoThey all have, and the world is worse for it. An anecdote: someone like Dave Chappelle is wildly popular on both the left and the right. Several friends of mine on the right devour his specials like a gourmet buffet. So when Chappelle gets up on stage and talks about his experiences with racism, police profiling, and inequality (as he did on yesterday's SNL monologue [0]), those same people on the right listen. They hear him. It moves the needle of justice forward by reaching an audience who otherwise wouldn't necessarily hear these stories. [0]: https://youtu.be/Un_VvR_WqNs https://youtu.be/Un_VvR_WqNs