late to the party but just cancelled Netflix

[PA_jen]

I just heard about Dave Chappelle comments on Transgender community and the suspension of Trans employee. My husband and I agreed to cancel streaming service.


I watched netflix a lot more with it shows like Umbrella Academy ( which how they can dare look at Elliot Page after all this) Witcher and other shows.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. AFAIC Chappelle is responsible for what Chappelle said not NF

I'm keen to hear more details about the firing, but it sounds like they violated company policy in releasing confidential information (or that's the gist I read) ... it's incidental that the person was trans (i.e. they're not fired for being trans).

If THAT situation turns out to be too egregious, I might consider cancelling.

But to each their own.

[PA_jen]

4. Netflix finances Chappelle's specials. They are on the streaming service.

and for the employee. IF the employee is criticizing and employer on their own time and their own "PRIVATE" accounts doesn't get my business.

[HipChick]

11. Netflix runs on Amazon..

AWS...
that's why this whole cancel culture is like cutting off your nose to spite your face..

[HipChick]

12. Nothing is really 'PRIVATE'..

Except the perception that you think it is...

[MichMan]

14. So it is OK to leak confidential company info as long as you do it on your own time?

[Demsrule86]

15. Don't care...glad they fired him...people complain about what was said and then complain because

Netflix wanted to make it clear he was fired...no different than all the others who go caught on video and were fired and their former employers announced it on the internet. God for Netflix. I am not canceling. I am not going back to crappy cable or four channels off of an antenna.

[Joinfortmill]

2. 👍

[Casady1]

3. not fired for being trans

fired for breaking company policy. The person who heads legal is gay.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. Punishing yourself probably doesn't help the cause. nt

[jimfields33]

6. I think a better way would be to write to the obamas and

Shonda Rhimes who has huge pull on Netflix.

NETFLIX has over 130 million subscribers worldwide. 73 million in the US alone. A cancellation among that many is just noise. They need to be pushed.

Just a thought.

[Hestia]

7. Y'all must not have watched his shows - his wife (Filipino) has trans and gay friends to her/their

home all the time and they make fun of Dave, while sitting in his home partaking of his/their hospitality, because of the way he dresses, etc. GenX you know. Now, if someone came to your home and started busting your balls, I say all bets are off. Just saying...

Now I have to go watch his new show - it's more than likely not egregious has portrayed and funny. Love his past shows and have watched them several times when I need a laugh due to the scolds/nags/"influencers" being "othersided" by the media on whatever is the news (non-news) of the day.

All this will do is tank up Netflix stock due to the stupidness (new word) of not watching Dave Chappelle in the first place and he has a massive tranche of fans.

Cancel culture at its finest...

[haele]

10. Chappelle threw in with Joe Rogan and his bro/brah "edge lord" culture.

Whatever sharp and insightful skewering Chappelle used to do -and I appreciated much of his older comic material - he appears to have recently thrown in with more popular low-hanging Bro-Humor.
As it was, he was never really feminist-friendly in his previous comedy; he tended to follow the female stereotypes - the airheads, the ball busters, sassy sistahs and "strong black women". Now, from the prospective of Bros.
Problem with Bro-Humor is that it's about airing grievances and put downs on "undeserving groups" that are trying to take the limelight or Bro-privilege. Sometimes it's kicking up at the Status Quo, but most time, it's pushing down to prop oneself up.

Bros are particularly afraid of Trans women or gays hitting on them. Since they're usually positioned rather low on the emotional maturity levels of Maslow's hierarchy, they believe It reflects poorly on their simplified perception of femininity and masculinity.
Notice they're never really concerned about Trans men. But they're almost terrified of acknowledging Trans women are a real gender status.

As Laz says (courtesy of Chris Hitchens, I think) " most Cis-Hetero Bros know in their hearts they're suckers for a good sales pitch, and are terrified they'll go full gay just by feeling attracted to a good looking guy or Trans."

And that's where, from what I've seen of Chappelle's recent schtick, that's the consumers of his comedy he's now focusing on.

Haele

[CrackityJones75]

8. And next will come the posts

And next will come the posts judging everyone else for not cancelling and how they are the reason for the downfall of our democracy.

[eShirl]

9. watch the Chappelle defenders swarm into this thread

[Sympthsical]

13. I don't think you have accurate information here

I mean, yeah, a lot of this is playing out on Twitter. Trying to find good info from there is like trying to sift a turd out of a river of shit, but this is where we are now as a society. Social media scribblings are news.

Netflix aired the special. A trans employee criticized them on Twitter. Said employee and a few others then went to a director's meeting they were not invited to. She was suspended. After a brief investigation, it seems she had reason to believe she would be welcome at the meeting. So they reinstated her.

So, no. No one was fired for their Twitter opinion.

A second, different employee in trans resources decided to lead a walk out. That same person accessed and distributed company metrics, including viewer numbers and payment details. Netflix is famously, famously protective of their internal data.

She was fired for accessing and spreading confidential company information. Any of us would be fired for this, no matter the context.

And that's about where we are. I'm not even sure if the fired employee is trans. Because it's Twitter, descriptions are all over the place. It seems it's a woman who is pregnant. So ally HR type?

Dunno. I do know Netflix has tons of LGBT programming. The fact it has a trans resources department at all should tell people they're not exactly galloping transphobes. Most people just go through general HR with their issues.

It is kind of funny Dave Chappelle is the line in the sand here. So, Cuties was fine with its sexual exploitation of under-aged girls, but a comic being a crank is the bridge too far.

K.

I guess they're bringing in Alok Vaid-Menon, an activist, for a company seminar. This is someone so problematic, it is mind-blowing that this is who got picked. If there was a contest of, "Pick the activist people will have the strongest negative reaction to," well, we have a winner. And of course, they're a Cotton Ceiling type (creepy, rapey, incel behavior directed toward gays and lesbians).

No one is going to look good coming out of this. This is why we don't use social media to drive serious conversations about serious issues. See: second sentence of this post.