{"id":1739183,"date":"2022-11-15T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739183"},"modified":"2022-11-15T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T14:48:12","slug":"dave-chappelles-snl-monologue-blasted-by-adl-for-normalizing-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dave-chappelles-snl-monologue-blasted-by-adl-for-normalizing-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Chappelle\u2019s &#8220;SNL&#8221; Monologue Blasted by ADL for Normalizing Anti-Semitism"},"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\">20<\/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-chappelles-snl-monologue-blasted-by-adl-for-normalizing-anti-semitism%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=1739183&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Dave Chappelle\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/13\/dave-chappelle-speaks-about-controversy-in-snl-monologue\/\">opening monologue<\/a> on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d was blasted by the head of the Anti-Defamation League for popularizing anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t expect @DaveChappelle to serve as society\u2019s moral compass, but disturbing to see @nbcsnl not just normalize but popularize #antisemitism,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JGreenblattADL\/status\/1591838296283414529?s=20&#038;t=jmdgKwUBzWlVyE9zUdPgYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are Jewish sensitivities denied or diminished at almost every turn? Why does our trauma trigger applause?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chappelle\u2019s opening monologue dove into the recent anti-Semitism from rapper Kanye \u201cYe\u201d West and Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving that has resulted in wide condemnation. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI denounce anti-Semitism in all its forms and stand with my friends in the Jewish community,\u201d Chappelle <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/1591684181737689090?s=20&#038;t=jmdgKwUBzWlVyE9zUdPgYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that, Kanye, is how you buy yourself some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chappelle\u2019s focus on the topic didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve probably been doing this for 35 years now and early in my career I learned there are two words in the English language you should never say together in sequence and those words are \u2018The\u2019 and \u2018Jews,\u2019\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI never heard someone do good after they said that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-1.jpg\" alt=\"A tweet denouncing Dave Chappelle.\" class=\"wp-image-24639979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Chappelle was criticized for his \u201cSNL\u201d opening monologue. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">@JGreenblattADL\/Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chappelle said he grew up around Jewish people and has a lot of Jewish friends, \u201cso I\u2019m not freaked out by your culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do some of your people dress like Run-DMC?\u201d he joked in reference to the hip-hop group.<\/p>\n<p>He then mentioned Irving, who has been suspended by the Nets after he shared an anti-Semitic film on social media and was slow to apologize for it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKanye got in so much trouble, Kyrie got in trouble,\u201d Chappelle quipped. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been to Hollywood \u2014 don\u2019t want you to get mad at me, I\u2019m just telling you I\u2019ve been to Hollywood, this is just what I saw,\u201d he also said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Chappelle delivers the opening monologue.\" class=\"wp-image-24640415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-3-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-3-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/chapelle-catches-heat-over-snl-monologue-3-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dave Chappelle delivers the opening monologue.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Will Heath\/NBC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLike a lot. But that doesn\u2019t mean anything, you know what I mean? There are a lot of black people in Ferguson, Missouri, it doesn\u2019t mean we run the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the \u201cdelusion that Jews run show business\u201d was not crazy to think, but \u201cit\u2019s a crazy thing to say out loud at a time like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other people over social media put Chappelle on blast for his performance while some defended him.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish rights activist Rudy Rochman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rudy_rochman\/status\/1591890184794435584?s=20&#038;t=qrngsBuqYscXMg8_8DX9fg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called the SNL skit<\/a> \u201ca meticulous &#038; calculated move to\u00a0desensitize the population from anti-Semitism\u201d while Time Out New York theater editor Adam Feldman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FeldmanAdam\/status\/1591657132122075136?s=20&#038;t=ltNCczcXbU7FDgmisuJpiw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argued,<\/a> \u201cThat Dave Chappelle SNL monologue probably did more to normalize anti-Semitism than anything Kanye said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But fellow comedian Loni Love <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoniLove\/status\/1591726966885212161?s=20&#038;t=qrngsBuqYscXMg8_8DX9fg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gave Chappelle kudos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dave Chappelle monologue on @snl tonight was the classic stand up he is known for \u2026 current events, timely and funny,\u201d she said in a tweet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Chappelle\u2019s opening monologue on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d was blasted by the head of the Anti-Defamation League for popularizing anti-Semitism. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t expect @DaveChappelle to serve as society\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739186,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1739183","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}