Are you not not going to watch the Oscars this year?

[tree_]

Billy Crystal said it was a crime

Billy Crystal did blackface, so his opinion is no longer relevant

True

[Mickey]

This is Will Smith's fault

[tree_]

Did he insult a lady?

[VinylGuy]

Did he insult a lady?

No, but Chapelle also didnt

WOOOOWWWW it was a joke

[tree_]

Insulting jokes are the equivalent of physical violence don’t you know

[Mickey]

It seems he made an insulting joke after he was attacked, so it's safe to say he deserved it and his attacker is just operating at a higher order of consciousness and time.

[tree_]

makes sense

[Mickey]

What do you make of the whole Chappelle/trans issue, tree_?

[BurtReynolds]

preemptive strike

[tree_]

What do you make of the whole Chappelle/trans issue, tree_?

I don't know much about Chapelle or his views, but as far as I'm concerned, if a joke is funny, all topics are fair game in the appropriate setting.

[tree_]

They appear to have beaten the guy up pretty good. Chappelle even said he "stomped" him backstage.. weird.. imagining Chris Rock, Chapelle, and Jamie Fox beating up on the guy.. very weird.. wonder if there will be consequences for them too

[BurtReynolds]

probably just a garden variety lunatic.

[Jorge]

What the hell hahaha

[Ms Harmless]

"After returning to the stage on Tuesday, the 48-year-old appeared to make light of the controversy, suggesting to the audience that the attacker "was a trans man"."

the article this is from says Chapelle was unharmed, the guy was jailed and taken for mental health treatment; apparently he had a handgun with a knife attached

[Ms Harmless]

I guess you can decide whether "lol I told you trans people are psychos" is the joke of a victim or a transphobe

[tree_]

Yeah, he's clearly trolling people who think he's a trans-phobe. From what I heard, he has/had a trans friend whom he was very close to, who was suicidal, and he told this story on stage. So clearly he doesn't hate trans people.

[Ms Harmless]

I disagree

he tells transphobic jokes and then uses "I had a trans friend!" as a get-out clause

[tree_]

https://deadline.com/2021/10/dave-chapp ... 234853511/

it is possible to love/support someone/something and make jokes about them at the same time

[Ms Harmless]

my take (which I won't defend for days on end) is that he's insulting the memory of his friend; trans people, especially trans women, tend to be suicidal because of things like the constant societal dissmisal of hatred like his as "just jokes"

[Ms Harmless]

https://deadline.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-the-closer-defended-by-sisters-his-trans-friend-daphne-dorman-1234853511/

it is possible to love/support someone/something and make jokes about them at the same time

that's great tree, you go and do that