You remember that Dave Chapelle made some jokes about the Gospel of Trans, right? Well there are consequences for these things.
Jaclyn Moore, writer and showrunner on the series “Dear White People” and the upcoming reboot of “Queer as Folk,” is boycotting Netflix after the streaming service released Dave Chappelle’s latest stand-up special, which contained a slew of jokes aimed at transgender people.
Well, Chappelle is black and Moore is white, so it’s time to start yelling about Karens and white women’s tears, right?
But wait.
Moore transitioned during production of the show’s last season, she told the Wrap, and was met with respect and support from her colleagues. But watching Chappelle’s most recent special drove her to sever her relationship with the streaming service, she said. She tweeted that Chappelle was once “one of [her] heroes,” but the jokes he made in the special “have real world consequences” for trans women, including violence and hatred, she said.
Oh dear. Moore is a trans woman, so obviously we can’t call a trans woman a Karen or a Becky, and we can’t laugh at a trans woman’s white tears.
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How brave to sever your ties with Netflix after your contract was already completed…
Never cared for Dave Chapelle’s comedy, but looking forward to watching this tonight.
Moore is a writer and former show runner for the Netflix show Dear White People, which just started its final season. He has received a lot of backlash for his comments. (The sub-head in the article below seems inaccurate; he didn’t resign from the show, he’s cancelling watching Netflix.)
https://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2021/10/09/dear-white-people-producer-draws-backlash-after-dave-chappelle-c.html
And I am free to roll my eyes at the silliness of a man announcing that he is stomping his foot in a huff at someone not agreeing with him.
yeah, well I’m bothered by Jaclyn’s porno tattoos displayed in public.
So here we are. A white man is claiming to be oppressed by a black man. Very inclusive.
Yeah, the jokes have real world consequences. Like people feeling a little more empowered not to believe the fairy tale that a rich white dude puts on a skirt and suddenly becomes oppressed.
There is a good post on this topic at Glinner’s. Moore’s history is rather, well, curious. Lots of pictures; head tilt makes the woman.
I may be wrong about Moore quitting. Glinner indicates Moore has refused to work at Netflix. Other things I’ve read imply a boycott of using the service, something many people can join him on, rather than a refusal to work there, but perhaps he was really referring to work.
Moore obviously uses a block list, because he has preemptively blocked me on Twitter.
Thanks for sharing that, Sackbut. Moore seems truly disturbing, and it’s not punching down on an oppressed minority to say that. Rich white dude is massive; any “vulnerability” is just acting out a sexual fetish on his part.
Given the context of huge rich white dude punching down at black comedians, maybe it is reasonable to question why a guy who refuses to honor the perspective of Black people is working on media depicting Black people in the first place. Not that huge rich white dude should be cancelled, but nobody is making Chappelle showrunner on a trans show. It might be worth asking the executive producers if they’re okay with their staff cutting apart the Black community.
Funny about those head tilts, Sackbut – I saw that photo of Moore on Twitter yesterday and replied to the tweet with “LOOK at that head tilt.” I’m so sick of these men with their simpers and tilts.
The phrase “simpers and tilts” needs to catch on.