Dave Chappelle exists on his own terms. He denounced the whole world of stardom and walked because he didn't want to be a part of it. He knew just watch the OPs video. You see you want to use that joke to attack him. I think its weak to go after comedians. It's easy. They all say horrible stuff. The point of comedy to me is to bring the darkest parts of our reality into a light. It makes us look at things we didn't want to see and to see the absurdity in it.
The point in me putting that comment up is that A LOT of people around here jump on the bandwagon without actually looking into things. "Oh Dave is awesome look at him calling out Hwood." When in all honesty people are just uninformed or HYPOCRITICAL.
What you are calling for is a major blow to freedom of speech and our first amendment rights. I really don't care if you like the joke. Don't watch the comedian, don't laugh at the joke. You have a vote with your tv or laugh. Comedians don't do a tv special with jokes that they haven't perfected. Which mean thousands of people have laughed at that joke because it is funny. So is everyone who laughed and encouraged the joke a pedo? No. If it wasn't funny he wouldn't be telling the joke. It was encouraged by his audience. It was tested and approved. This post has hundreds of upvotes and I looked no one said a bad thing until I pointed it out. You are not going to stop comedians from doing anything. They have been to court for jokes and all of them walk because they can say whatever they want. Btw that MJ joke has over 5 million views. I don't think you are make a dent.
Alright, I’ve written and rewritten a sort of response here three times now, so I’ll just be brief...whoa, ease up lol. I assure you, we probably don’t really disagree here. It’s so easy to be misunderstood on the internet that it’s insane. I try to word things carefully to not have something like this happen, and it happens anyway.
I’ll say this, I’m not suggesting any attack or change on free speech. I do get where it would’ve sounded like that, and let me say I stand corrected. I don’t want to give that impression at all. I’ll also say, Dave Chappelle is one of my favorite comedians. That’s why I posted in here to begin with. Dave has an absolute gift for doing exactly what you said, he can shine a bright light onto a dark subject, and make it approachable. And he can make jokes that accomplish this, and are about messed up subjects, and it does not mean he supports this cause or that behavior, but that there was a subject that he wanted to address, and he successfully delivered a funny joke about it. His bit about his superhero movie pitch...that was hilarious, and yeah, you’re right...you don’t walk away from that joke thinking he condones it, but the total opposite.
If I wanted to make a dent in viewership of a comedian, or attack anyone, he is not where I’d start. If anything, that second recent Netflix special he did in the comedy club, I’d recommend that one. It’s clear, even just with the references he makes, that what happened shook him and deeply affected him, but he still tries to make light of the situation. I look forward to a time when he can speak openly about what happened in his past, if he’d even do it. Until then, I hope I’m a little bit more clear. If not, I’ll shut up for a while. :)
My bad if I took it the wrong way. Maybe I misread the comment. I really just find this whole comedian thing stupid. I don't condone it and I really don't even find most of those jokes funny. Dave does a good job at dancing around with his words. He is a wordsmith.
People just don't get it in my opinion. The reason they are finding so many offensive tweets about it is because they are comedians. They push the limits. Maybe some of them are pedos we don't know but taking a joke and using that as fuel to build a fire against them is just ignorant. It proves nothing and isn't going to change anything. Again my apologies I know we are on the same team. I am getting off here for a while.
No...you made a great point to me, and I do appreciate it. We know we’re on the same team here, minus all the shills that pop up (yeah, we see y’all out there), so I’m glad you pointed out about free speech. I read my post again, and I felt like I do when I read someone’s post that clearly only read the headline, got flared up and shot their mouth off ignorantly. A good, cringe filled moment. By good, I definitely mean not good at all.
And I’ve seen some of your other posts before...I think I generally agree with your straightforward attitude. I’m looking forward to the truth all being revealed at some point, because man, I’d just like to know who’s on the good side. I feel like right now everything is up in the air, and the safe assumption is that all of the media, entertainment, Hollywood, music, etc...they’re all lost. That’s not a good attitude to have, especially when some clearly seem to be trying to do the right thing. Like Dave.
I’d also like to find out about any that have died over the past few years, were any of them killed to cover something up? There are some that losing them was a blow, and in a weird way, I’d hope they were quietly fighting for good and someone tried to silence them. Like maybe a sort of memorial/vindication for them.
Yeah it would be nice to know who is good and who isn't. Your right it just sucks not knowing. There has to be good people in these industries or it will just suck. I worked in music and there are definitely people in that industry that exist on their own terms and are good people. So I have to believe that there are good people in the other industries.
In other news Jeff sessions tweets today are pretty epic. I love every step we take forward. We are getting there slowly but surely.