Dear White People Showrunner Quits Netflix Over Dave Chappelle's Transphobic Special

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49. People outside the community can disagree

And this really gets down to why I responded to you (I generally won't respond to other LGBTers on this board on most of our issues, because I typically just let people say their piece).

When you put allies in quotes, because they don't agree with your opinion on a comedian, that's an over-reaction to me. I mean, that's when they become suspect? Good on marriage, helped us during the AIDS crisis, stood up for us when we had less power. But a different opinion about a comedian makes their membership in our ally group suspect and worthy of suspect quotes?

When you are questioning allyship over a comedian, the question becomes thus - Are you looking for an ally? Or, are you looking for a subordinate? Because those are not the same things, and I have been seeing this more and more - especially on Twitter. "Agree with me always, or you are not a true member of our community and allies."

I'm never ever going to go along with that. I am too old for that game. People can disagree with me. I like when people disagree with me. It's how we grow and learn.

And I'll simply note, I have yet to see one of the outraged even address the point of Chappelle's comments, especially at the end. That when his friend stood by him, these Twitter clicktivists tormented her. Potentially to death. We'll never know. And when she took her own life, did these perpetually Twitter outraged lift a finger to help her family? After they spent all that time harassing her? No, they didn't. Dave did. Her family has spoken out about this.

The way Twitter behaves is absolutely toxic. It harms people, especially young people and the vulnerable. That's offensive to me. What he says doesn't bother me much. There are places where I think, "Ehhhh." But over all. He is what he is. What people do, does bother me. And, in the case of Daphne, I know who bothers me a fuck of a lot more.

And it isn't Dave Chappelle.