chappelle's jokes about trans people are unfunny and inaccurate - they're unfunny because they're inaccurate. being trans is a comedy in a society that is based around two genders - you are this un-man un-woman flitting around the boundaries of acceptability, simultaneous dyke-faggot. that's a funny concept because there are so many situations that are awkward and uncomfortable for you

chappelle conflates biological sex and gender, like a lot of people do, and seems to think of transness and gayness as a white thing - some kind of weird perversion - this despite using the suicide of a trans comedian as a shield for his lame-ass bits

Now, I am not saying that to say trans women aren’t women, I am just saying that those pussies that they got… you know what I mean? I’m not saying it’s not pussy, but it’s Beyond Pussy or Impossible Pussy. It tastes like pussy, but that’s not quite what it is, is it? That’s not blood. That’s beet juice.

https://www.gq.com/story/chappelle-the-closer

the thing that gets lost in the endless complaining about cancel culture is that the only people who have lost their jobs in the trans panic are trans people - the one lady at netflix who got fired, the people that jk rowling sued for calling her a "terf" (chappelle is "team terf" now in his own words)

i feel less insulted by the special than saddened and disgusted. it's predictable that this kind of discourse comes from it, and it's predictable that ecib, mk, and you can come together in a circle about it and say that people are being so silly for not liking it, and that dave is speaking from the heart

jokes about trans people that are based around them being stitched-up abominations doing woman-blackface aren't funny because they don't reflect any of the experience of being trans - and if i, a paleface honky tranny, were to get up on stage talking about how i'm on team blue lives matter and that black people should just settle down, it wouldn't matter if i namedropped a black friend and voted for obama or whatever, people would recognize that it's not funny