More assholery from Chappelle

[Floyd R. Turbo]

This discussion thread was locked by EarlG (a host of the General Discussion forum).

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Comedian Dave Chappelle made a surprise appearance Friday at fellow comedian John Mulaney’s show in Columbus, Ohio, drawing criticism on social media for what some in attendance said were jokes targeting the LGBTQ community.

According to attendees, Chappelle, who lives in Yellow Springs, around 40 miles southwest of Columbus, was a surprise opener for Mulaney’s “From Scratch” tour stop at Value City Arena at Ohio State on Friday. There is no footage from the event, as attendees were required to lock their phones up before the show, Variety reported.

Afterward, many attendees took to social media to express concern and criticism for what they said were jokes targeting the transgender community. Some also reported that Mulaney and Chappelle shared an embrace on stage.

Comments about Chappelle’s performance on the show, as well Mulaney, were trending on Twitter over the weekend, with more than 19,200 tweets by Sunday afternoon.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/05/22/dave-chappelle-john-mulaney-ohio-criticism-lgbtq/9887000002/

[Walleye]

1. I'm not gonna go to any show where I have to lock up my phone

[Cuthbert Allgood]

2. It's usually a sleeve that they give you which they unlock when you leave.

It's to protect IP.

[Claire Oh Nette]

54. Not uncommon

Recently saw Bob Dylan in Asheville.

Harrah's staff made no bones about patrons turning phones off at 8:00pm. Handed out business cards to the whiners. Official Warning. Repeat offenders would be escorted out.

Bob came on right at 8:00. No phones. No one watching tiny screens. Everyone watching th eartist.

One woman was invited to leave for violating the policy. Guy in fron tof us tried to take a picture on the sly, and staff was right on him.

Made for a nicer show, actually.

[BlackSkimmer]

26. I remember going to shows without carrying a phone!

[Walleye]

27. Yes, but I always had a camera. They never made me lock up my Leica

[LiberatedUSA]

32. I wonder how many people...

…would be able to find their way home, if their GPS stopped working. I remember a time when a folding map was all one had to drive from one location to another.

[BlackSkimmer]

33. Same here! I still love maps.

Always have one in my glove compartment.

[moonscape]

112. And I remember a time when folks

joined AAA for the maps and trip route thingies

[Iggo]

38. Me neither.

[shrike3]

100. I've been to concerts where people were asked not to use phones, but they did anyway.

Probably why phones get locked up.

[Walleye]

113. I guess we just can't count on people behaving in a civilized manner anymore

[obamanut2012]

9. " Literally. Their lives are in danger simply because they say the unsayable." -- wtaf

So, they say the unsayable ie how trans people suck, and you think THAT'S okay?!

What blindspots are there where we support bigotry?

Your post is really, really indefensible, but yet you post this proudly.

Have you no shame?

Am betting I get YET ANOTHER HIDE for calling out transphobia on DU.

"The reason that comics are funny is because they make fun of everything." -0- hahahahhaha jokes about rape, feminism, and LGBT bigotry are SO FUCKING FUNNY

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. See what happens when the topic comes up?

It's impossible to have any kind of meaningful discussions when people react so violently.

[USALiberal]

61. I wouldn't call it violent! It's a discussion board, get it?

[BlackSkimmer]

64. True about several topics here. Mustn't deviate from the narrative.

A shame.

[Sympthsical]

65. I have so many opinions on this topic

Particularly as a gay man whose orientation is increasingly coming under attack.

Will I be airing those opinions?

Newp.

The conversation isn't even remotely possible in some spaces.

[BlackSkimmer]

77. I hear you.

I’m a gay woman, and I agree with you.

What’s funny is how many here defended Kevin Hart when he said he’d be violent to his son should that child dare to appear in any way gay. Some of the same now condemning Chappelle.

It’s perplexing.

[Sympthsical]

82. The art of the social nautical flag

"Good person off the port bow!"

It's the world's strangest color guard.

[BlackSkimmer]

86. Lol.

So well stated.

[yardwork]

78. Like the violent things that the "entertainers" say?

It's ok - admirable even - for them to say violent things about minorities but not ok when said minorities protest?

THAT is the definition of privilege.

[BlackSkimmer]

96. How did you feel about Kevin Hart threatening violence toward his own son should he show "gay"

tendencies.

I remember a lot of support for Hart here. Interesting.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

110. Just as there's a fucking lot of support for Chappelle here... now

Some of us condemned and continue to condemn both.

Bigotry isn't funny.

Neither is child abuse.

Fuck Hart. Fuck Chappelle.

[obamanut2012]

125. Lol whatever

Violent my.ass.

[Tree-Hugger]

17. "Oversensitive"

Transphobia gets a pass.

Nothing brave about targeting the LGBTQIA+ community.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

111. Heterosexuals don't get beaten or killed or denied rights...

for being heterosexual!

[IngridsLittleAngel]

109. Bigotry is okay because to many of us, we're not even people

There. I said it. For a number of people here, Chappelle's repeated attacks on the trans community (along with Maher's) are just fine because... trans people aren't people anyway. They're "beyond people" or "beyond pussy" or whatever. We're just a bunch of self-entitled brats begging for ponies and wanting "special treatment" - like not being terrorized by the QOP, or beaten to death, or whatever.

I know they'll jump my ass for this. But how else should some of us feel? We've been cis-splained and gender-splained for months. We've been told to shut up and quit spoiling their comedy. We've been told "respect the science" to our faces.

But that's fine. We cost the Dems elections. Woke shit costs elections! And Chappelle and Maher are just so amazing and brave!

I wonder how funny it is that I've been harassed repeatedly in my own home ever since Chappelle's goddamned special? That several times I've had to hear people stand outside MY FRONT DOOR, going on about "beyond pussy" and "crossdressers aren't real people" and other such hateful quotes, as loudly as they can? It's so funny? Chappelle's so fucking hilarious? His fucking comedy has been used as a weapon against me, personally. I've had to spend the last six months of my life in even more fear of being a target of a fucking hate crime, because Chappelle's weapons disguised as words have emboldened transphobes the same way Drumpf's fucking campaign speeches have emboldened bigots for six years, and the way Fucker Carlson emboldened the shooter in Buffalo.

But it's soooooo funny! LOLZ! Chappelle 2022 - Fuck Trans Feelings! No, people. Some things are not funny. Rape jokes aren't funny. Child abuse jokes aren't funny (hello, Kevin Hart!) Holocaust jokes aren't funny. And fucking punching down the trans community like Fucking Chappelle isn't funny.

We get it. I'm grateful you get it. I'm tired of the ones who don't get it.

There's no defense for so much of this shit. Yet here... we... are... again. And, of course, it's only us who get hidden. Not the transphobia... Gee. Is there another purge coming for the sake of the election?

[vercetti2021]

18. Okay so tell me

Please tell me what I a transwoman should be doing right? Because exactly what is unsayable?

[MrsCoffee]

19. If stand up comedy needs such bigotry to survive, then I'd happily pull the plug.

I say this as someone with a family member who is a stand up comic.

There are plenty of comics making it out there who aren't embracing bigotry for dollars.

[BlackSkimmer]

28. Remember Eddie Murphy?

Richard Pryor?

[Act_of_Reparation]

76. I do.

What's unclear is the point you're trying to make about them.

Murphy's bit on gay men in Delirious wasn't self-effacing or ironic. It wasn't there to make people think or raise important questions about controversial topics. It was punching down, and it was cruel.

[BlackSkimmer]

79. Yes, I hated his routines on gay people.

However, I was not personally offended, “triggered “ nor did I feel the need to rush the stage and attack the comedian.

Good lord, the jokes I’ve heard about women over the years…

[Act_of_Reparation]

81. Could you explain the difference between hating a routine and not being offended or triggered by it?

[BlackSkimmer]

85. Really? You need that explained? Perhaps I should have said I "disliked" his routines.

Hate is not something I routinely engage in.

“Triggered?” Does that mean I launch myself at something I don’t like? I ran into MTG in DC once…I dislike her intensely, but felt no need to attack her physically or even verbally.

Personally, I wouldn’t subject myself to a “routine” that would offend me. I think Kevin Hart is an ass, but his puerile routine would never offend me. I think he’s stupid. Period. I don’t even like his ridiculous commercials, but they don’t offend me.

Your question is baffling.

[Act_of_Reparation]

95. It's semantics.

Words don't have objective meanings. There's a degree of subjectivity involved, even in the best defined terms.

Take this for example:

“Triggered?” Does that mean I launch myself at something I don’t like? I ran into MTG in DC once…I dislike her intensely, but felt no need to attack her physically or even verbally.

This is an interpretation of the term "triggered" with which I am wholly unfamiliar. Traditionally, the term is related to PTSD. When one is "triggered", they are referring to having been exposed to material that provoked a recollection or reliving of a traumatic experience.

I do not connect this term with the act of storming a stage and slapping someone.

The term "offense" is even more nebulous. I don't know how you are differentiating between "offense" and "dislike". I also don't know why this baffles you as there is significant overlap between the dictionary definitions of the two terms.

Of course, I don't know what the correlation between being offended and storming a stage to assault somebody is, either.

[BlackSkimmer]

97. Ah, perhaps you missed the recent report that Chappelle's attacker says he was "triggered."

[Act_of_Reparation]

116. I don't much care that they did.

The argument put forth here in this thread is that people are "oversensitive", that they shouldn't be offended by transphobic comics. The only supporting evidence for this claim seems to be that one time somebody assaulted a comic and then claimed to have been triggered post hoc.

This is an argument from adverse consequences, and it doesn't stand up to the slightest logical rigor. I shouldn't be offended by a comic mocking marginalized groups to which I may be a part because one time one guy tackled Dave Chapelle? Offense is a natural human emotional reaction. How another person deals with this emotion is not relevant to whether or not you should experience it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. .

The reason that comics are funny is because they make fun of everything.

Making fun of the marginalized *for the reasons they're marginalized* isn't funny. It's punching down and contributes to oppression.

Their lives are in danger simply because they say the unsayable.

Come the fuck on.

[GoneOffShore]

83. Perhaps learn the difference between punching down, punching sideways, and punching up

Nanjani, Cho, Cohen, Gad Elmaleh, Iliza Schlesinger punch sideways and up.

Chappelle and various fellow travellers punch down, consistently.

[Zeitghost]

91. Just to be clear

You don't think people's lives are in danger when a man who has been charged with attempted murder rushes them with a knife in hand?

[obamanut2012]

126. What does that have to do with Chapelle's bigotry?

[Rob H.]

46. He's punching down at a marginalized community known to be subjected to

high levels of violence, gender and ethnic discrimination, and poverty. YMMV, but that doesn't strike me as anything remotely resembling comedy.

And in case you missed it:

Anti-Trans Violence and Rhetoric Reached Record Highs Across America in 2021
BY Madeleine Carlisle
December 30, 2021 7:06 AM EST

2021 was the deadliest year for transgender and gender non-conforming people in the U.S. on record. At least 50 trans and gender non-conforming people were killed this year alone, per a report by LGBTQ advocacy organization the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)—the highest number of deaths since the organization began recording fatal violence in 2013.

The report makes clear that the full number of fatalities is likely much higher still; the deaths of trans and gender non-conforming people are often underreported, and the victims themselves are often misgendered. (At least 24 of those listed in HRC’s report were initially misgendered by the media or police.)

Tori Cooper, the director of community engagement for the transgender justice initiative at the HRC Foundation, says HRC not only noticed a rise in fatal violence, but an “increase in violent acts, period.”

(snip)

Since 2013, HRC has documented 256 incidents of fatal violence against trans and gender-nonconforming people. Over three quarters of victims in that period were 35 years old or younger, and one in ten was under 21. And Black trans women were disproportionately the victims of fatal violence this year, as well as in years past—in the years since HRC has been keeping record, at least 84% of those killed were people of color, 85% were trans women and 66% were Black trans women.

There could be several factors contributing to the rise in violence, Cooper says. Systemic racism and transphobia exacerbates poverty and directly impacts the lives of many trans individuals, she explains. There has also been a rise in anti-trans disinformation in the media and from conservative lawmakers. This year, at least 130 bills were introduced into state legislatures that targeted trans people, including the ability of trans kids to use the bathroom, play sports or receive medical care. A record-breaking 25 anti-LGBTQ bills were ultimately enacted into law, including 13 anti-trans laws in at least eight states, per HRC’s count.

“Words matter,” Coopers says, when asked about potential factors contributing to the violence. “Words become thoughts and thoughts become action.”

[HipChick]

53. How is this different from other marginalized communities that have been targeted for decades

centuries even....

high levels of violence, gender and ethnic discrimination, and poverty etc

and is still on-going?

[Rob H.]

67. It isn't

And comedians shouldn't be punching down at them, either, but for some reason Chapelle gets a pass from a lot of people here.

[obamanut2012]

127. Whataboutism, really???

It isn't different. Please link to who said it was.

Man, some of y'all love tripling down on defending this dude.

[Edim]

89. I agree.

Here is the great George Carlin making fun of fear of germs:

[Tarc]

90. So glad your comfy in your privilege

and that you find enjoyment in the words of a bigoted homophobe.

[Happy Hoosier]

92. Punching down is never funny and always disgraceful. Fuck Chapelle. NT

[krawhitham]

108. Punching down?? So you believe the LGBTQ community is below Chapelle?

[Happy Hoosier]

114. Nice Try!

I believe trans people are more marginalized than Dave Chapelle.

But nice try in trying to cast me as the villain.

[obamanut2012]

128. Yawn

[eShirl]

4. I guess that's what he wants to be known for.

[obamanut2012]

10. "People need to get over themselves. "

"Someone is a bit too sensitive."

Quit being so thin-skinned and sensitive while we punch down. HAHAHHAHAHHA JOKES PUNCHING DOWN AT LGBT ARE SO FUCKING FUNNY HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[vercetti2021]

12. Thank you! +1000

I'm tired of this bullshit. I'm overly sensitive? How about I'm trying to not fucking get killed by being transgender? I'm so fucking tired of the transphobia on DU.

[BlueTsunami2018]

70. Since that's not what happened, you have no point.

🤷🏿‍♂️

[yardwork]

80. What didn't happen? You seem to know.

Please publish what Chappelle said here so we can all read it.

[yardwork]

88. How do you know that's all he said? Were you there?

[BlueTsunami2018]

93. Because that's what was reported.

I’m sure they only reported that part and not the part when he went on a hateful rant. 🙄

Come on.

[yardwork]

94. What I've seen reported is that recordings weren't allowed.

[obamanut2012]

129. Oh please school me on how stupid I am oh wide one

[IngridsLittleAngel]

115. These people are something else...

Telling people who face bigotry and discrimination and who are the target of "jokes" how the hell they are supposed to feel and react to such bigotry and "jokes". Nothing like being straight-splained and cis-splained by people who aren't being targeted by entire states with "Don't Be Gay" and "Groomers" and all of that shit. People who aren't being harassed in their own homes for trying to live as their true selves.

Yeah. We all need to quit being so thin-skinned. Just STFU and let Lord Chappelle punch down on us so they can laugh.

It's always us being too sensitive. And... whatever. Maybe if some of us just STFU and took off the makeup and dresses and heels, this problem wouldn't exist.

[obamanut2012]

130. Look at this thread

Jfc

I have never seen this site so anti lgbt.

[vercetti2021]

15. Yeah I'll get over myself

I'll just stop being such a pussy and stop taking all the transphobia to heart. Yeah not exactly that fucking easy when you're transgender.

[BlackSkimmer]

24. "Such a pussy"?

Wow, irony is not dead.

[vercetti2021]

30. Haha

Laughing so hard right now

[BlackSkimmer]

34. Many consider that word offensive.

Calling someone a "pussy" was always considered an insult. Attributing female characteristics to a male is both an intent to insult the man and women in general.

But I bet you knew that.

[vercetti2021]

37. Irony here

Calling myself a cat.

[BlackSkimmer]

39. Nice try.

[Oneironaut]

44. FYI - Vercetti is female.

[BlackSkimmer]

59. Then she should know better.

No further comment.

[Oneironaut]

6. And yet no one is able to provide what he actually said? lol

I realize no phones were allowed, but, no one can summarize what he actually said? I don’t trust when people criticize speech without providing what was said.

[leftyladyfrommo]

51. Thank you.

[PatSeg]

29. Good point

Without knowing what was said, it is hard to pass judgment. And are they saying Chappelle made offensive jokes or just embrace a comedian who did?

[BlackSkimmer]

35. See post #25.

That's what he said.

[PatSeg]

40. Seriously???

And that is what this entire thread is about?

[BlackSkimmer]

42. As usual, most people commenting probably have no idea what he said.

You know how that goes around here.

[BlackSkimmer]

47. Well said!

[PatSeg]

50. Thanks for the sane and reasonable discussion

[BlackSkimmer]

60. Back atcha!

[Oneironaut]

7. Also, people on Twitter sound like zealots demanding everything be censored.

I picture an angry nun going around and slapping peoples’ knuckles lol.

Guess what? The world sucks sometimes. Not everyone is understanding. I’m trans, and, people have stared me down, made rude comments, and made me feel unsafe. A shitty joke isn’t what I’m worried about.

[BlackSkimmer]

41. This. Growing up as a gay woman who came out WAY before it was cool, I heard plenty of nasty crap

directed my way. I think we were tougher in those days. Or something.

When I was in the Air Force, the saying the men used to throw around was that women in the military were either "sluts, lezzies. or looking for a husband." Even if a woman wasn't gay, she faced plenty of ugly jokes, harassment, insinuations...god the stories I could tell...

Jokes told by stand-up comedians didn't bother me in the least. You are spot on.

[PatSeg]

48. So it appears to be more generational then

From what I've witnessed, that would make sense.

[vercetti2021]

8. I see the Chappelle apologists have arrived to defend him

Try being me a transwoman in the current day. This fuck head doesn't make funny remarks about us. He literally bitches and complains about us. He isn't helping our community and hasn't for a while.

[obamanut2012]

11. Including defending transphobia

wtf has this place become?

[vercetti2021]

13. I don't know

But I'm ready to make an exit at this point. I really thought this place was safe for people like myself and Ingrid. But it isn't. People are defending transphobic behavior. I'm tired of it. I'd rather have my account removed than continue to put up with the bullshit here.

[obamanut2012]

56. It is even worse now than it was years ago

Very few would have defended Chapelle or Rowling here publicly ten years+ ago. They might have thought it, but most wouldn't say that part out loud. Now? Hateful.

[Tree-Hugger]

23. It's common

I have noticed transphobia often goes unchecked and is defended.

[vercetti2021]

31. Me and another have noticed it for a while

We've grown extremely tired of it. We have no defenders outside a few and usually get the most hidden. We both talked about quitting DU over it. Or least going out getting banned in blaze of glory defending ourselves

[obamanut2012]

55. Admins will do nothing to enforce it

And, I keep getting hidden posts over calling out the transphobes here, and then get 24-hour alert bans because juries go ZERO for hiding this filth.

[Rob H.]

69. There are a disturbingly high number of TERFs here

I can't imagine how that must make our trans brothers and sisters feel, but I try my best to be an ally.

[alphafemale]

21. He is certainly mastering staying in the news cycle over some hurt feelings.

Gottta give him that.

[Iggo]

36. That's his shtick now.

He found something that pisses off the right people and he’s not going to stop. You can feed into it or you can kick him to the curb. I choose the latter. (In fact, I think I’ll add “Chapelle” to my trashed word list. I’m done talking about him here.)

[LiberatedUSA]

43. Yes, yes.

A true progressive doesn’t care that Chappelle was attacked by a person with a weapon at a prior event; after all he might have said something offensive. No no no, a true progressive only cares that his joke was “the person that attacked me was carrying a gun that identified as a knife”; since he was attacked by a person with a fake gun that was a knife.

Oh no!!! The world shall end!!! How dare he!

His joke was violence, the attacking him over his jokes was understandable!

[PatSeg]

49. Thanks for putting it in context

I don't follow Dave Chappelle and didn't know about the gun-like knife attack. This entire thread is looking like a waste of time.

[alphafemale]

72. I am all for offending people unless I am offended ...um OK

I really don't understand this mindset.

Don't support the things you don't like. Trying to ban it gives it more attention.

[Johnny2X2X]

52. Chappelle is an asshole

But he can say whatever he wants, people are free to ignore him or speak out against him in return.

More free speech is the answer.

[AngryOldDem]

57. I really don't understand Chappelle's popularity.

It’s crystal clear how he feels about the trans community.

(He’s also been a prick to his neighbors in Yellow Springs, too.)

Fuck him.

[BlackSkimmer]

62. I don't care for him, but a friend of mine has been to his shows.

She said she is usually one of the few white people in attendance.

He's mostly hugely popular with PoC.

[USALiberal]

63. He's annoying as hell to me, but I understand people like him

[Torchlight]

73. ok lol nt

[madville]

71. His popularity makes some sense

Last numbers I saw, around 80% of transgender violence was among people of color.

Chappelle’s act is also usually racist against Asian and White people, which his audiences seem to love.

I personally don’t watch him or care for his content.

[catsudon]

106. im an asian

and i love all his asian jokes, like the one about the covid one.

[Sympthsical]

74. Popularly, he coasts on old material. Within comedy, he's a comic's comic

If you're a fan of stand-up, how he constructs his jokes is brilliant. How he structures his stories, circles around, and flips the script on where you think he's going with it. There is a lot of artistry in how he goes about it.

For people who just go to see a comedian for a laugh, people have a lot of affection for him from the days of his show.

For me, his newer material isn't as funny while simultaneously genius in its construction. I'm not sure if I find him hilarious as much as I just admire how he works his craft.

That said, the Jussie Smollett shit was golden.

As for his current controversy. I just don't think I care. And with this incident, the "real story" is that he said he was attacked with a knife identifying as a gun and not the fact he was attacked with a knife for his jokes?

Ok. I guess that's where we are now. The important bit is the words, not the violence.

Sure.

[leftyladyfrommo]

99. Personally I think we should all just get stoned

abd rhen just really listen to what the other person is saying.

The source for a lot of Stand Up comes from a lot of pain. And because of that they sometimes cut too close for comfort. It can be really disturbing. Or it can be hysterically funny.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

102. Looks like you did!

[leftyladyfrommo]

103. I didn't even know I could do that. nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

105. 🤗

[CrackityJones75]

104. It's a comedians job to get a response from people.

Nobody ever said that response had to be positive. If you are telling people to get over themselves because they didn’t care for the jokes then you are the one that is causing the problem.

[leftyladyfrommo]

107. That's valid. But my point was more that Stand Up

won't survive if they have to monitor everything they say.

I love Stand Up and there are people I just don't like or that I find offensive but I don't want them to shut up. I just want to listen to it.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

118. Oh. Good.

One of the chief transphobes would like to say something...

[Bucky]

119. Bigotry has an addictive quality.

Once you've made up your mind to punch down at a weaker social group, the intoxication of power becomes too heady to resist.

Think about the rush among some DUers to come up with increasingly harsh and aggressive denigrations of Republicans. They're ReThuglicans, they're Republikkkons, they're ReThuglinazis. They don't say Trump anymore, it's "45" or it's "TFG" or it's "Drumppf". It feels good to trash the name of someone you don't like. Only conservative Republicans will survive the insults of us a few snarky liberal posters on DU. We're punching up at the plutocrats that're plundering our society. Chappelle is pursuing a grudge against an already oppressed and marginalized minority group. I'm sure all the applause feels good to a comedian.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

122. AND THERE IT IS!

We knew the "LGBTQ'S COST US ELECTIONS!!!!!11`1`~" crowd would chime in!

[BannonsLiver]

123. And there is is!

A bad faith argument!

[obamanut2012]

131. I was shocked it took so long

Remember when marriage equality was announced by Scotus? THE GAYS WILL RUIN US.

And rhe Lawrence decision? Same.

Same when DADT was pulled.

[EarlG]

132. Dear people who still haven't gotten it yet

It's one thing to say that Dave Chapelle has the right to say what he says about trans people. Of course he does. In America, all bigoted assholes have the right to say things that let everyone know they're a bigoted asshole.

But think carefully about how you approach this topic if you don't want to be seen to be defending a bigot. We have a rule which states:

Members are expected to respect diversity and demonstrate an appropriate level of sensitivity when discussing related topics. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or other forms of bigoted intolerance are not permitted.

If you suggest that your fellow DU members who rightly find Chappelle's bigotry to be hateful and harmful to the trans community are being "oversensitive" or "triggered," then you are not demonstrating an appropriate level of sensitivity.

And to be clear, the louder you protest that Chappelle's bigotry should be waved off because he's just a comedian, the more I'm going to assume that you don't just agree with his right to say harmful shit about trans people, but you actually agree with what he's saying.

Once again, please educate yourselves:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215969127