Is Dave Chappelle's new special "The Closer" really transphobic?

Oh come on man, you can’t be serious? You’re better read than that, even just by your post here:

I do admit that the US influences Ireland. But I get sources from lots of countries. I even read french, Spanish and German newspapers. I have family in Germany. I also follow news from Mexico where I used to live. I’m reading the works of Xi Jinping. You should try that, or even read what the US is doing outside it’s borders rather than within.. Like Yemen. try not to lecture people on reading more when your focus is narrow and imperialist. 

as for the trans movement it has little effect on me personally but it will potentially effect women here and across the west fairly significantly. it will effect ireland more than your voter ID laws. In another country. Or some governor in another country removing the mandate for masks. Sweden doesn’t mandate masks. However if it’s not on CNN it’s not real to you, is it?

Judith Butler wasn’t even born when ideas about gender and sex and all the rest of it were being floated about in Europe, and exported to the US, even long before the ECHR existed. Even calling the ECHR the ultimate woke body is a stretch!

However, here we are on the Internet discussing an American comedian who traces his own ancestry back to the time of slavery in the US (he’s been dining out on that one his whole career), and you’re bemoaning imported ideologies and woke institutions?

Chappelle converted to Islam in 1991. He told Time in May 2005, "I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way."[40] Chappelle appears in a video explaining the religious backstory of the Well of Zamzam in Mecca.[115]

His great-grandfather, Bishop William D. Chappelle, born enslaved in 1857, served as a president of Allen University and led a delegation of African Americans who met President Woodrow Wilson at the White House.[116][117] His great-great-grandfather, Robert J. Palmer, was a member of the South Carolina Legislature, then majority black, during Reconstruction.[118] His grand-uncle, W. D. Chappelle Jr., was a physician and surgeon who opened the People's Infirmary around 1915, a small hospital and surgery practice in Columbia, South Carolina, during a time when segregation prevented many African Americans from having access to healthcare.[119]

He’s made millions off his satirical social commentaries about racism in the US, precisely because he does it in a way that’s intelligent and clever, and his latest specials are all about how black people still don’t have equal status in American society when people who are transgender have been recognised as having equal status in American society. It was because of him dragging people who are transgender into a conflict that wasn’t theirs, that they are pissed with him. They don’t hate him. Dave Chapelle only wishes that they hated him, because he’s the one with the persecution complex and a hell of a chip on his shoulder - he wants them to try and cancel him so he can say “I told you so”, but apart from a tiny minority on social media which he himself says isn’t real, the reality is that nobody really cares!

You have a tiny minority of people trying to frame it as an issue of free speech, as if THEY are being forced to be silent and can’t say anything, but that’s not reality either, because they have the freedom to say they can’t say anything, or they can’t make jokes about people who are transgender, or they can’t perpetuate shìtty stereotypes about people who are transgender because they might face criticism from other people for expressing their opinions. Yet that’s always been true and it’s nothing new.

What’s changed is that they weren’t aware of the freedom from criticism they had before because to them it appeared as though everyone agreed with them. People who didn’t agree with them didn’t have a voice, it was they who had to be silent because they were in a minority and had no protection from discrimination.

Chapelle knows this because even in his last special he made the point in his analogy about the LGBT community and their civil rights and equated it with being on a car journey. He’s doing an impression of one of the passengers who is transgender and he says “Can you pull over at the next exit? I need to use the restroom”, and in response the white gay guy driving the car exasperatedly screams “there is not a restroom for you for four STATES n*gger! Will you just shut the fcuk up so we can get where we’re goin’!” 😂

That’s clever and intelligent social commentary through using satire which is just one form of comedy. The spiteful way he went about eviscerating people who are transgender in his latest special wasn’t satire, it was just one shìtty joke after another. People reacting badly to your jokes doesn’t mean your freedom of speech is being violated, or that you’re being silenced, and you’re sure as hell not a victim. It just means people are sick of your shìt, because they’re well used to hearing it from everyone else.

"shouting down anyone you don't agree with"..

Like the reason this thread was created?

What exactly is your point though. Do you propose repealing the Gender Recognition Act?

Does the idea that some people are fine with being treated as less than equals in society, mean that everyone else who shares that characteristic in common with them should also be satisfied to be treated as less than equal? The only people who benefit from that are the people who made up such a stupid rule in the first place that allowed for people to be discriminated against on whatever basis they’re claiming they would be at a disadvantage if other people were to be treated as their equals!

What’s radical about that? It’s been the way things have been in Western society for at least the last 200 years, since Victorian times anyways when Darwin sought to justify discrimination by suggesting there was a biological basis to explain why some people were superior to other people, and some people were inferior to other people, and that this should be the basis upon which society should continue to be structured, which was rather convenient for him and the people who had the authority to make policy decisions at the time - it reaffirmed their beliefs that they were superior to everyone else.

easy now - a lot of assumption in that statement.. kinda shows a lack of critical thinking really..

It’s clearly not the same, my point is that it’s on the basis of recognition of the differences between the sexes that one sex was considered to be superior to the other, and this was reflected in law at the time. There were other characteristics which were also considered superior such as the colour of a person’s skin, their religious affiliation and adherence, their political beliefs and so on.

If I’m understanding you correctly, you’re not suggesting anything radical, you’re simply reinforcing standards which would have the effect of justifying discrimination against particular groups in society on the basis of someone’s feelings that they are superior and this gives them the the authority to determine other peoples rights. One doesn’t have to be woke to see the issues with that idea - it still means that unjust discrimination is justifiable on the basis that the person is not regarded as being of equal status in law, which is precisely what the gender recognition act attempts to address - recognition first, protection from unlawful discrimination second.

Everyone is free as you suggest to determine their gender for themselves, same as for example they are free to determine their own religion for themselves, and other people who don’t agree with them are still free to disagree. Nobody is free to harass anyone else, and people are still punished when they are convicted of committing criminal offences.

The only people who are surprised when anyone disagrees with them are people who aren’t used to anyone disagreeing with them.

So. Yes.