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.
He’s obviously making fun of the people who have nothing better to do than clutch their pearls over the jokes that comedians make. The whole “punching up” and “punching down” thing is idiocy invented for people to harvest more likes on social media by pretending they’re fighting some social justice cause.
Here’s well known social media karma harvester… George Carlin explaining the concept in… 1990
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