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How many news stories have you read about violence and prejudice against black folks in the last 2 weeks compared to stories about this? There have been over 6

How many news stories have you read about violence and prejudice against black folks in the last 2 weeks compared to stories about this? There have been over 600 murders in Chicago and over 2700 shootings in 2021 alone, with 75% of those folks being black. Yet…it’s a national news story for two weeks that Dave Chappelle told some jokes that offended a tiny percentage of people. That was the point of the whole special.

micromacrofoot 5y ago
This is really grasping at straws, there was a massive movement that essentially lasted all last summer to protest against police violence against black people. There have been multiple large demonstrations this year. I've seen nothing even approaching that scale for trans people. Maybe Dave is spending too much time online. If his stance is "sometimes this (about me) gets more attention than that (about them)" then it's even more absurd. Especially considering that intersectional violence is particularly bad for black trans women. Roxane Gay had a decent opinion piece in the NY Times if you want an opinion from a black feminist. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/dave-chappelle-netflix-trans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/dave-chappelle-ne...
- kcplate 5y ago
  > I've seen nothing even approaching that scale for trans people. Perhaps that has to do with the fact that there were 44 reported cases of fatal violence against trans people and 9900 against black people in 2020. Edit: fixed my stat
  - micromacrofoot 5y ago
    not sure why you think it’s a pissing match and you’re moving the goalposts
    - kcplate 5y ago
      You got all that from a single statistic? Interesting.
      - micromacrofoot 5y ago
        well first you were saying there’s more outrage about trans people, and when presented with a contrary opinion you’re now singing a tune about the proportion of the outrage… come on, that’s not even what this is about
        kcplate 5y ago
        The message of the show was about the ridiculousness of disproportionate outrage and places an exclamation point on his message. But yeah, two weeks and dozens of national news stories and demands to cancel and remove his show is probably just a few people “mad” at him for comparing trans genitalia to fake hamburger and not a living example of disproportionate outrage at all.

micromacrofoot 5y ago

This is really grasping at straws, there was a massive movement that essentially lasted all last summer to protest against police violence against black people. There have been multiple large demonstrations this year. I've seen nothing even approaching that scale for trans people. Maybe Dave is spending too much time online. If his stance is "sometimes this (about me) gets more attention than that (about them)" then it's even more absurd. Especially considering that intersectional violence is particularly bad for black trans women. Roxane Gay had a decent opinion piece in the NY Times if you want an opinion from a black feminist. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/dave-chappelle-netflix-trans.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/dave-chappelle-ne...

kcplate 5y ago
> I've seen nothing even approaching that scale for trans people. Perhaps that has to do with the fact that there were 44 reported cases of fatal violence against trans people and 9900 against black people in 2020. Edit: fixed my stat
- micromacrofoot 5y ago
  not sure why you think it’s a pissing match and you’re moving the goalposts
  - kcplate 5y ago
    You got all that from a single statistic? Interesting.
    - micromacrofoot 5y ago
      well first you were saying there’s more outrage about trans people, and when presented with a contrary opinion you’re now singing a tune about the proportion of the outrage… come on, that’s not even what this is about
      - kcplate 5y ago
        The message of the show was about the ridiculousness of disproportionate outrage and places an exclamation point on his message. But yeah, two weeks and dozens of national news stories and demands to cancel and remove his show is probably just a few people “mad” at him for comparing trans genitalia to fake hamburger and not a living example of disproportionate outrage at all.