SJW, and sister of Brandon Lee, Shannon Lee, thinks of herself as the template of what humans should be like moving forward. God forbid. She is garbage truck juice.
Stacy Dash wrote a piece for Patheos where she ridiculed a Lee article about her hatred of Dave Chappelle. But it was only a glancing blow. Dash’s exit lines were her best-
Why don’t we let comedians do what they do and if we don’t like what they say, we don’t listen to them. That sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? Instead, liberals have to tell everyone else how we’re doing it wrong and how much better the world would be if we did things their way.
And what an unfunny world that would be.
My hope is that Dash doesn’t believe that we let leftists do what they do and if we don’t like what they say, we don’t listen to them.
That sounds pretty easy, but it’s not the solution to our problems. It wouldn’t just be an “unfunny” world living under the thumb of leftist tyranny. The left needs to be eradicated.
Here’s the Lee article from a site called The Establishment.
Dave Chappelle: Your Homophobic, Transphobic, Misogynistic Rants Aren’t Funny
“And he saves way more than he rapes, and he only rapes to save. But he does rape.”
This comment — about a fabricated movie plot starring an ugly superhero who rapes women to activate his superpowers and save lives — came not long into one of Dave Chappelle’s new comedy specials on Netflix, which have been glowingly described as “terrific” and “giddily funny” by The New York Times.
The joke occurred before the 22-minute mark — at which point I was sufficiently disgusted enough to turn my television off. But Chappelle, I would come to learn, wasn’t done yet.
And that’s what you’re supposed to do. Not watch it if you don’t like it.
Over the course of his two hour-long specials, Chappelle would display a startling amount of bigotry — but rather than face condemnation in the aftermath of this troubling rhetoric, he’s mostly been heralded as a comedic genius. Our cultural embrace of such blatant hate is particularly damning in our current political era — and raises questions about the role of comedy in society.
Sounds like a Trump rant is germinating.
First, let’s talk about that rape joke.
The debate over sexual assault jokes is, it’s safe to say, a fraught one, even within the feminist community. Some progressives have argued that rape jokes can have a place in comedy, if (and only if) they’re designed to attack perpetrators and rape culture. Amy Schumer’s Friday Night Lights parody about a new coach telling disgruntled football players that they can no longer freely rape comes to mind;
So, it’s hilarious, and within the bounds of the “Lee Standard,” to paint high school football players as rapists, and the coaches as their enablers?
so does Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Golden Globes zinger, “Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.”
I see the joke, but where’s the funny?
As a rape survivor,
Here we go..
I personally draw a more definitive line in the proverbial sand. I am keenly aware that rape is a violent crime that destroys lives, and that those who escape physical injury are plagued by mental and emotional trauma.
And non-rape survivors are not keenly aware of this? This is progressivism personified. “I am smarter than you, better than you, more keenly aware than you. Let me dictate your lives for you. Wait, did I say, “let you?” I meant, “I will dictate your lives.”
Some victims never recover and do not survive. To me, rape is never funny.
Unless it’s Hillary laughing over getting a client off on a child rape charge. (Insert Hillary cackling HERE.)
But even if you’re of the mindset that feminist rape jokes are possible, Chappelle’s joke clearly isn’t one of them. There was no broader target for Chappelle’s joke; it’s only objective was to make light of and normalize rape, using the tired sexist trope of a politically incorrect superhero to do so.
No. Chappelle’s joke was about trade-offs, and it made me think.
What if a guy could fight crime as a superhero but could only gain his power by raping a woman? Would it be worth it? Am I sick for thinking that?
Well, let’s go to the Huffington Post editorial where Melissa Lafsky said Mary Jo Kopechne was the “catalyst” for Kennedy’s political career, since he never served jail time.
What would she (Kopechne) have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of his “heralded” life and career? “Who knows — maybe she’d feel it (her death going unpunished) was worth it.”
So, Chappelle’s joke had no broader target? Or was it, instinctually, a traget you didn’t feel comfortable with?
To me, rape is never funny.
NEVER?
Police blotter:
A woman was gang raped by a troupe of mime artists.
They performed unspeakable acts on her.
Somewhere someone chuckled.
If Chappelle’s offensive material was limited to just that one joke, it might be easy to overlook. But a staggering degree of misogyny was evident throughout the comedy special. Just minutes before his superhero “joke,” Chappelle talked about meeting O.J. Simpson and his “soon to be slain wife,” Nicole Brown Simpson, for the first time — reducing the life of a tragically murdered mother and victim of domestic violence to comedic fodder in the span of a few short sentences.
We’re laughing because OJ killed his wife and the bulk of SJWs probably think he didn’t. Chappelle’s joke aside has socially redeeming value.
And it wasn’t just misogyny Chappelle displayed.
Brace yourselves.
Resolved to finish the specials, I turned my television back on and watched Chappelle disparage “transgenders,” mock Caitlyn Jenner, and dismiss the necessity of the “Q” in the LGBTQ acronym.
I didn’t even hear the routine, but I am already laughing about the “Q” in LGBTQ insight.
After that, he joked even more about sexual assault, calling Bill Cosby “the Steph Curry of rapists” and claiming after 34 rape allegations that he still believed Cosby “only raped 10 or 11 of those people.”
That is funny. Sorry.
He even recalled an incident involving an angry white female audience member who stormed the stage in response to his Cosby rape jokes, referring to her as the “bitch” he thought he was going to have to “kick in the face.”
And? If it was a guy it would be acceptable? There is no difference between men and women, correct? And how do you know if that person didn’t identify as a man?
After a rant on how women’s oppression does not compare to the oppression of Black men in America, Chappelle then had the audacity to label himself a feminist — a ridiculous statement that offended not just because of its disingenuousness, but because it callously dismissed the struggle of Black women in America, who have been in the trenches with Black men fighting to overcome racism and sexism at the same time.
Surely, I thought, this special would inspire widespread outrage.
It didn’t.
True, I saw others online who shared my concerns, and there was some pushback in the media, but overwhelmingly, the response has been positive. The special has been heralded as unapologetic, with special praise heaped upon Chappelle’s willingness to address police brutality. The specials also earned Chappelle an estimated $60 million from Netflix.
Why was he able to get away with such blatant transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny?
“Get away with”? Was there a crime committed? (This is dangerous, people. And it’s why I say the left needs to be eradicated.)
It could be because of our cultural stance on comedy, which roughly translates to: Anything’s fair game.
Yes.
Comedians have long argued that their art form is meant to be provocative; that it’s a medium in which “political correctness” is anathema to the cause. But as others have argued, it’s absurd to act as if there is no moral responsibility in comedy. Comedy that targets societal oppression can be funny and incisive, even (or especially) as it stokes discomfort.
Translation: It’s funny if it makes you uncomfortable, but not me.
When asked the difference between Comedy and Tragedy, Mel Brooks said, ” Comedy is when someone falls down an open manhole. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.”
Comedy that ridicules marginalized groups is just hateful and damaging, evoking more explicit hate speech.
Define marginalized groups. Wake me when you get to “white people.”
Don’t comedians have a responsibility to create content that does not cause harm?
No.
While comedians denounce self-censorship, psychology teaches that what we consume in the media influences the way we view the world and impacts our future behavior. Homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic jokes perpetuate hostility toward targeted groups. This is always wrong — no matter the medium.
This is from the same publication that Lee’s essay appears.
If history has taught me anything, it’s that there’s nothing more disappointing or dangerous than a room full of white people.
…like most bad ideas, I blame white people. Specifically, I blame the room full of white writers, producers, directors, and executives who greenlit this doomed disappointment from the start. And this isn’t the first time a room full of white people has let me down.
Is this not perpetuating hostility towards a targeted group?
It’s also worth examining the particular dangers of Chappelle’s comedy in the context of our modern political era. Trump earned the presidency despite
multiple accusations of sexual assault a pending rape lawsuit, and open discrimination against women and members of the LGBTQ community.Every joke minimizing sexual assault contributes to a culture in which rape remains heavily underreported due to the kind of victim-dismissal that allowed Trump to enter the White House; every dig at “transgenders” is a cruel attempt to humiliate and dehumanize transgender people at a time when the head of the country’s civil rights office is a well-known transphobic bigot and our presidential administration has rescinded protections for transgender students in public schools.Under the Trump administration, women and members of the LGBTQ community wake up to the threat of losing our constitutional rights every day. We are violently losing our lives due to widespread hatred and discrimination — and it is no laughing matter. The world has changed in the decade since Chappelle left his hit TV show, and he has proven his inability to grow and connect with a diverse audience. If his intent was to cause pain by ridicule, he has done so brilliantly.If the goal was to make us laugh, both Netflix and Chappelle need to know this: The American public deserves better. We deserve more than futile jokes delivered by an overrated comic who relies on divisive and insensitive material. The times demand a brand of comedy that is smart, conscious, and reflective of the world we live in today.
but, but, but… Dave Chappelle is BLACK, er, African-American! He can’t be racist, so he can’t be Homophobic, Transphobic, or Misogynistic either!
Dave Chappelle is a funny ass MoFo. Chappelle and Charlie Murphy did some of the funniest stuff my twisted sense of humor has ever seen. Charlie Murphy died yesterday at age 57. Lost a battle with Leukemia.
“To me, rape is never funny.”
Well neither is murder, when you look at it from a purely personal level. Nothing funny about it at all. But it still gets joked about. And talked about. And written about. And included in movies and television dramas, just like almost every other type of human activity.
Let’s face it, there is almost no subject that that you can make a joke about that somebody won’t find offensive.
Stacy just needs to put on her big girl panties and deal with it.
I just don’t know why we don’t take all those initials LGBTQ and just use Q since that pretty much defines them all. I have nothing to say about Shannon since she seems to be one of those people who is feels constantly aggrieved
Sister of Brandon Lee. Who the heck is Brandon Lee?
Excellent post. She’s hysterical, and not in a funny way. PC is nothing more than a war on our values. She can stuff it.
A bitter, perpetually offended, homorless feminist. How surprising.
joe6pak, you’re kidding right?
this should help you out if you’re not.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Brandon+Lee
and HELLO!
When I leave work, I’m going straight home and watch that Chappelle show on Netflix. This was the best comedy review I’ve ever read. Thanks Ms. Lee
@BFH – I think your fisking posts are my favorite. Well done.
As for Shannon Lee – sigh. I grow weary of all the grievances and lies. Her paragraph on Trump is filled with BS. I haven’t seen one shred of proof of any of it, yet the leftists continue to spout as if it’s proven fact. Shut up, Shannon. You’re a fool.
Inigo, thanks. If he had said Bruce Lee I might have gotten it. Who ever calls him Brandon anyway?
joe6pak
Brandon Lee is Bruce Lee’s son. Who is also expired. The women above is Brandon’s sister, Bruce’s daughter.
This is a good example, if you pay attention you learn something new everyday. I temporarily have a handle on the Lee family. Don’t ask me about it tomorrow though.
joe6pak
I don’t even know why I know that. It’s almost embarrassing actually.
Who the person is and whether or not you know who they are doesn’t matter.
There are many, many sheep that DO know who they are and they DO matter to them. They are being lied to by them. And THAT is what we’re up against. THAT is why we have articles like this, to remind us of what we are facing on a daily basis.
My gosh. Do I ever HATE the “Who is (insert ignorance here)” questions.
Forcibly dragging somebody banged up and bleeding down the aisle of an airplane isn’t funny, either…but it damn sure provided a kajillion comedians with new fodder, didn’t it?
I’ve seen these whiners with their furrowed brows up close. Punchable.
@Inigo Montoya: I looked up Brandon Lee. I vaguely remember hearing about his death about 25 years ago, and with the last name I figured he was related to Bruce Lee. You gotta remember that not all of us are into Kung Fu movies, after all.
🙂