Not gonna pretend that I’ve watched all his specials. I believe I watched the first two after his return, and that’s about it. I just read about the rest, which I acknowledge comes with a layer of bias by being filtered through someone else’s lense. However, A) the flaw in the “I can’t be transphobic because I have a trans friend” argument should be apparent, especially coming from a black man in America who would have heard the “i have a black friend” argument for decades. It certainly doesn’t give you carte blanche to to say whatever you want about trans people without criticism and consequences. People are perfectly capable of befriending people that they have deep seated issues with. And cognitive dissonance is a thing. He can correctly pronoun his transwoman friend and still disparage transwomen as not being women at the same time, because that’s what he did. B) Again, while I haven’t watched that special, the fact that that is a part of his comedy show, just highlights the fact that he uses his platform to express heavy handed messages on what he sees as imperative for us to hear. That story is clearly not a joke. It’s definitely not funny. It’s a lecture, a scolding and finger pointing.
That being said, what happened to Daphne is a tragedy. Whether or not she took her life directly or indirectly due to the public backlash she got for publically supporting Chappelle, it’s still terrible that it came to that point. There’s nothing wrong with voicing your anger at speech you find bigoted, or in support of bigotry. But there is a line that gets crossed oftimes into harassment and bullying. No part of the political spectrum is innocent of that, and it’s not okay regardless of political affiliation.
I’ve never really compared Demetri Martin and Mitch Hedburg in my mind, but I can see some similarity. They both tell short deadpan jokes/one-liners without much or any continuity between them. I haven’t seen Demetri in much for a while except as a side character in a few movies and tv shows. I haven’t seen the Bare Bears show. Any good?
He was presented with a new viewpoint on gender. He said “no thanks” to considering that viewpoint, which is honestly fine (we’re allowed to have different opinions). But instead of just holding his opinion on that viewpoint personally, he used his considerable platform to make a huge deal out of rejecting that viewpoint. He then faced the predictable backlash for doing so as a public figure.
Instead of apologizing or just avoiding the subject on his platform in future, he reacted to that backlash by doubling down and repeatedly employing his platform to attack the viewpoint. Thus, he began earning the ire of more people that support trans rights and the admiration of those who opposed them.
He then immersed himself in his new right-wing support group, rubbed elbows with those who share his viewpoint on gender, found a new more conservative fanbase, and had those views reinforced and enhanced by the echo chamber around him. As a result, he has slowly become more radicalized and made this issue a huge part of his worldview and public persona.
My prediction is that this influence will continue to radicalize him and steer him further to the right, not only on this issue but on other issues as well. His new peer group will reward him for his views on the trans people. They will use that as a jumping point into other right-wing ideas that will start to make “a lot of sense” to him. And as a public figure, they will encourage him to use his notoriety to voice more and more of these views and use his platform to support their causes. I bet money he will be a semi-regular on Fox News or some other conservative voice box in the next 5 years and will be publically endorsing Republican candidates for office. Bet.
A) Straight is sexual orientation. It has nothing to do with being cisgender. B) Cisgendered is the etymologically correct term to use for someone who isn’t transgendered. C) If someone has a good faith non-disparaging preferred term for themselves other than cisgendered, then by all means use that
It’s not “mainstream liberalism” that’s acting like that any more than it’s “mainstream conservatism” that’s waving nazi flags over Florida highways and calling every Republican that doesn’t grovel to Trump a RINO.
Also tolerance for people and tolerance for what they are recognizing as intolerance are not the same thing. If person A says I’m “X”, and person B says “being X is an abomination” or “you’re not X. I’m telling you you’re Y” or something along those lines, then person B is intolerant of person A. It’s a perfectly reasonable position to say “we should be accepting of X, and Y, and Z and all the other letters, and fuck anyone like person B who says otherwise”. Person B can argue that what they said or meant was misunderstood and wasn’t intolerance. But if they meant what they said, they don’t get to demand that just because someone else is tolerant of people of different physicalities, cultures, religions, races, ethnicities, nationalities, orientations, identities, etc. that they must tolerate their intolerance too.
And if you are intolerant of people who are “X” and don’t want to be called out on it, then you shouldn’t express that intolerance or act on it. If you do, you should do so under the understanding that you earned the consequences for your actions.
Also, if I rewind to the Neolithic and I see a bunch of cavemen, sabertooth tigers and a Schwinn chained to a bike rack, I’m not going to just fast forward from there. I have other questions.
You can basically forget it happening until 2028. Biden is the incumbent and sitting president and if anyone were going to make a serious attempt at taking his seat from the Dems, they’d already be campaigning and even then it would most likely be a lost cause. Barring a serious upset like an extreme medical issue or death, no other Dem will be taking over the oval office in 2024.
Same with Brussel sprout. My step-dad would boil them. Tastes like a soggy sulfur fart. But cut them in half, toss them in a bit of oil, salt and pepper, roast them until crispy in the oven with, and they’re delicious. Oddly sweet, even. Try with other seasonings to enhance further.
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