{"id":1057458,"date":"2021-11-26T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1057458"},"modified":"2021-11-26T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:28:45","slug":"dave-chappelle-refuses-to-apologize-to-woke-students-who-called-him-a-bigot-claim-his-comedy-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dave-chappelle-refuses-to-apologize-to-woke-students-who-called-him-a-bigot-claim-his-comedy-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Chappelle Refuses to Apologize to Woke Students Who Called Him a &#039;Bigot,&#039; Claim His &#039;Comedy Kills&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdave-chappelle-refuses-to-apologize-to-woke-students-who-called-him-a-bigot-claim-his-comedy-kills%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1057458&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Comedian Dave Chappelle reportedly came under attack during a visit to his high school alma mater when woke students called him a \u201cbigot\u201d and said \u201cyour comedy kills.\u201d The stand-up star refused to apologize and even mocked some of the students who objected to his visit on Tuesday, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2021\/11\/25\/a-dave-chappelle-thanksgiving-special-495228?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f101-dd93-ad7f-f905da570000&amp;nlid=630318\">report<\/a> from <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Chappelle spoke to a crowd of 580 students at the&nbsp;Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., where he was supposed to discuss the controversy surrounding his latest Netflix special <em>The Closer<\/em>. But he got a frosty and at times hostile reception from some of the students who objected to the transgender and gay jokes he told in the show.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>During a Q&amp;A session, one student stepped to the mic and called Chappelle a \u201cbigot,\u201d adding, \u201cI\u2019m 16 and I think you\u2019re childish, you handled it like a child,\u201d <em>Politico<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18901482\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1350346653-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18901482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1350346653-scaled.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dave Chappelle speaks onstage during the 36th Annual Rock &amp; Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 30, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame )<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chappelle hit back at student. \u201cMy friend, with all due respect, I don\u2019t believe you could make one of the decisions I have to make on a given day,\u201d he reportedly said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Another student accused Chappelle of promoting or encouraging violence with his comedy. \u201cYour comedy kills,\u201d the student said. The comedian reportedly replied: \u201cN*ggas are killed every day,\u201d adding, \u201cthe media\u2019s not here, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When one student&nbsp;walked out of the assembly room in an apparent rage, Chappelle singled her out by saying, \u201cOf course she left early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hostile line questions provoked Chappelle into asserting his dominance over the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m better than every instrumentalist, artist, no matter what art you do in this school, right now,\u201d he reportedly said. \u201cI\u2019m better than all of you. I\u2019m sure that will change. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll be household names soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school said the hostile questions created a distorted picture of the event, saying a \u201csilent majority\u201d of students supported Chappelle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the conversation with students and staff, Chappelle specifically invited the voices of discontent to ask questions, however as a result, the supporters of Chappelle became the silent majority,\u201d a school spokeswoman told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur principal was approached by several students after the assembly who were disappointed that they were not able to voice their support for Chappelle in this forum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school recently postponed a fundraiser that was to have featured Chappelle after angry students complained and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/13\/dave-chappelle-fundraiser-for-alma-mater-postponed-after-woke-students-complain-about-transgender-jokes\/\">threatened a walkout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Dave Chappelle reportedly came under attack during a visit to his high school alma mater when woke students called him a \u201cbigot\u201d and said \u201cyour comedy kills.\u201d The stand-up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}