{"id":1196793,"date":"2022-01-07T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196793"},"modified":"2022-01-07T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:50:31","slug":"the-sacrifices-the-woke-gods-require","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-sacrifices-the-woke-gods-require\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacrifices The Woke Gods Require"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fthe-sacrifices-the-woke-gods-require%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=1196793&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>On January 3, a CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/03\/entertainment\/patton-oswalt-and-dave-chappelle\/index.html\">headline<\/a> claimed, \u201cPatton Oswalt defends his longtime friendship with Dave Chappelle.\u201d Except, that\u2019s not what Oswalt did. What the headline should have said was, \u201cPatton Oswalt seeks absolution for his longtime friendship with Dave Chappelle.\u201d Or even more accurately, \u201cPatton Oswalt seeks absolution for the views of his former friend, Dave Chappelle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because no one who treats a friend as Oswalt did should be able to retain the title.<\/p>\n<p>Few pop culture events have highlighted the cultish nature of wokeness or the legalistic and rapacious demands it makes on its adherents more than Oswalt\u2019s decision to distance himself from a man with whom, by his own admission, he has enjoyed <em>34 years<\/em> of friendship.<\/p>\n<p>For what great transgression did Oswalt feel he had to offer a sacrifice of public self-humiliation? He accepted a favor from the much (<em>much<\/em>) more successful Chappelle to make a guest appearance at his New Year\u2019s Eve show then posted a backstage photo of the pair to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYLfUrXrhod\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Instagram<\/a>. As one would expect, given their disparate levels of achievement, Oswalt also praised the five-time Emmy winner for his comedic genius.<\/p>\n<p>This act resulted in nothing more mundane than a buzzing hive of anonymous commentators accusing Oswalt of minimizing transphobia. (For those who\u2019ve been living under a rock, by \u201ctransphobia\u201d they meant Chappelle\u2019s assertion in his latest special that \u201cgender is a fact\u201d and that wearing women\u2019s clothes does not make one a woman any more than wearing blackface makes one ethnically African). Not 24 hours passed before the gnashing teeth of these nameless social media Pharisees brought Oswalt to his knees in repentance.<\/p>\n<p>After assuring the world that he and Chappelle \u201c100% disagree about transgender rights &amp; representation\u201d and that he\u2019s an \u201cLGBT ally\u201d in good standing who \u201c[supports] trans peoples\u2019 rights \u2026 to live safely in the world as their fullest selves,\u201d the 53-year-old groveled for forgiveness. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, truly sorry, that I didn\u2019t consider the hurt this would cause. Or the DEPTH of that hurt.\u201d <em>O my gods, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of thy just punishments\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally, to add insult to injury, Oswalt patronized Chappelle\u2019s supposed heresy with an obsequiousness that would put Dickens\u2019 \u2018umble Uriah Heep to shame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also don\u2019t believe a seeker like [Chappelle] is done evolving, learning,\u201d he said in regret over his colleague\u2019s failure to reach his own level of enlightenment. \u201cYou know someone that long, see the struggles and changes, it\u2019s impossible to cut them off. Impossible not to be hopeful and open and cheer them on.\u201d Oswalt then had the temerity, after lamenting Chappelle\u2019s stunted evolution in front of the entire world (a world that only started paying attention because Chappelle was involved, by the way), to insist that he\u2019s a \u201cloyal friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a sane era, Oswalt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CYN3w4iL4qc\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">post<\/a>, which featured an embarrassing performance art photo of him supposedly writing this letter of apology on a yellow legal pad, would have friends and family wondering if he was still of sound mind. At the very least, pragmatic considerations should have given him at least a few days\u2019 pause before so visibly throwing a comedy legend under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Years before a tiny handful of employees walked out of Netflix for airing his latest standup routine, Chappelle had become a household name. He is a man who sells out arenas worldwide by doing nothing more than talking into a microphone. Ask ten people at the grocery store about Dave Chappelle and you may get ten different opinions (or ten bad impressions). But ask them about Patton Oswalt and six will likely confuse him with either General George S. Patton or JFK shooter Lee Harvey Oswald. Perhaps two will be able to identify him for the most-famous role he has ever played \u2014 the voice of the rodent in Pixar\u2019s \u201cRatatouille\u201d (a bit of casting that, as National Review\u2019s Kyle Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/01\/patton-oswalt-turns-rat-against-dave-chappelle\/\">pointed out<\/a>, has suddenly come to seem prescient).<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, there\u2019s no question that an association with Dave Chappelle has a lot more to offer someone like Oswalt than appeasing @transgrindr92. Even Hollywood wouldn\u2019t have faulted him for ignoring the activists mewling in his comment section \u2014 not when A-listers like Brad Pitt and Stevie Wonder still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/dave-chappelle-netflix-special-critics-cancel-culture-1235028197\/\">turn out<\/a> to Chappelle\u2019s shows and headliners like Usher and Justin Bieber are happy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/surprise-usher-and-justin-bieber-perform-at-dave-chappelles-minneapolis-show\/600114116\/\">take the stage<\/a> alongside him.<\/p>\n<p>A pastor friend of mine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HansFiene\/status\/1478139036233515008?s=20\">pointed out<\/a> on Twitter that Oswalt\u2019s behavior only makes sense if you look at him as the true acolyte of the new leftist religion of wokeness \u2014 the cruel and exacting cult that will brook no threats to its total authority over your life and your relationships. It requires you to mouth creeds without question: <em>Trans women are women. Black lives matter.<\/em> And like a cult, it separates you from the unconverted and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 3, a CNN headline claimed, \u201cPatton Oswalt defends his longtime friendship with Dave Chappelle.\u201d Except, that\u2019s not what Oswalt did. What the headline should have said was, \u201cPatton Oswalt seeks absolution for his longtime friendship with Dave Chappelle.\u201d Or even more accurately, \u201cPatton Oswalt seeks absolution for the views of his former friend, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":1896315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196793","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\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}