Dave Chappelle told his audience he was canceled. A trans activist says he’s playing the victim.
, saying, “You didn’t pay me nearly enough to deal with the real world consequences of the hate speech dog whistling you refuse to acknowledge, Ted.”Gadsby had not publicly responded to Chappelle’s comments about her comedy as of Tuesday.
Several dozen trans and nonbinary employees walked out of the Netflix campus in Los Angeles last week in protest of Chappelle’s special. Days before, Netflix fired an employee who leaked information to Bloomberg News that the company spent $24.1 million on the special.
In the performance Chappelle posted on Instagram, he claimed that since backlash erupted over “The Closer,” film festivals won’t screen a new documentary called “Untitled,” which shows how he dealt with the death of George Floyd during the global pandemic.ompany, not a movie studio and not a film festival — nobody will touch this film,” Chappelle said, without specifying any studios or festivals. “Thank God for Ted Sarandos and Netflix. He’s the only one who didn’t cancel me yet.
Preston said she believed that in referencing Floyd and claiming that his film was pulled from festivals, Chappelle was framing himself as a victim and pitting the transgender and Black communities against each other. “He already did that in ‘The Closer,’ ” she said. “He already pit Blackness against queerness as if Black trans and queer folks don’t exist.”
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