Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.
“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).
It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.
That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.
He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.
This whole thread is mostly about beating a Chappell-shaped straw man.
Wait, so he doesn’t do a yearly transphobic comedy show where he delights in “punching down”?
Wheres the “straw man”?
Have you watched the show or are you arguing here about what you’ve decided the show is about?
Because if it’s the latter then yes, it’s a straw man. It’s basically a textbook straw man.