{"id":906227,"date":"2021-10-21T14:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=906227"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:14:25","slug":"its-time-for-dave-chappelle-to-cancel-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-time-for-dave-chappelle-to-cancel-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time For Dave Chappelle To Cancel Netflix"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fits-time-for-dave-chappelle-to-cancel-netflix%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=906227&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>The great Union general William Tecumseh Sherman once said, \u201cWar is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>War with Dave Chappelle may not have been Netflix\u2019s aim, but given that the company has now allowed itself to be used as a weapon by a few trans-activists determined to exert their will over the legendary comedian and his art form, Chappelle should give them all the war they want.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For a moment, about a week after his special, \u201cThe Closer,\u201d dropped, it looked like the streaming giant might have enough integrity to stand by their man \u2014 and free expression. When a trio of unhinged, low-level trans employees leaked confidential financial information to the press and tried to crash meetings above their pay grade, Netflix execs calmly fired the worst offender and suspended the others. When a few more staffers waxed histrionic on internal communication channels, co-CEO Ted Sarandos informed them their antics would not be indulged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChappelle is one of the most popular stand-up comedians today,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/film\/news\/ted-sarandos-dave-chappelle-defense-1235088647\/\">said <\/a>in defense of the special, adding, \u201cAs with our other talent, we work hard to support their creative freedom\u2026We don\u2019t allow titles that are designed to incite hate or violence, and we don\u2019t believe \u2018The Closer\u2019 crosses that line\u2026stand-up comedy [exists] to push boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarandos added that he did not believe Chappelle\u2019s jokes that include observations like \u201cgender is a fact\u201d are harmful to the transgender community.<\/p>\n<p>Sarandos\u2019 co-CEO Reed Hastings echoed this commitment to free speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/14\/business\/media\/dave-chappelle-closer-netflix.html\">saying<\/a> in an internal memo, \u201cI do believe that our commitment to artistic expression and pleasing our members is the right long term choice for Netflix, and that we are on the right side [of history].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further pressed by a disgruntled employee about whether Netflix would commit to more trans-promoting programming to act as a counterweight to Chappelle\u2019s supposed bigotry, Hastings replied, \u201cWe disagree with your characterization and we\u2019ll continue to work with Dave Chappelle in the future. We see him as a unique voice \u2026\u201d He concluded, \u201cWe do not see Dave Chappelle as harmful, or in need of any offset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there, there was no reason for Netflix to back down. A few C-list, faux-intellectual personalities like lesbian spoken-word artist Hannah Gadsby (name might ring a distant bell) and \u201cDear White People\u201d producer Jaclyn Moore (is that a show?) might have carped, but the real star power was firmly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great Union general William Tecumseh Sherman once said, \u201cWar is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.\u201dWar with Dave Chappelle may not have been Netflix\u2019s aim, but given that the company has now allowed itself to be used as a weapon by a few trans-activists determined to exert their will over the legendary comedian and his art form, Chappelle should give them all the war they want.\u00a0For a moment, about a week after his special, \u201cThe Closer,\u201d dropped, it looked like the streaming giant might have enough integrity to stand by their man \u2014 and free expression. When a trio of unhinged, low-level trans employees leaked confidential financial information to the press and tried to crash meetings above their pay grade, Netflix execs calmly fired the worst offender and suspended the others. When a few more staffers waxed histrionic on internal communication channels, co-CEO Ted Sarandos informed them their antics would not be indulged.\u201cChappelle is one of the most popular stand-up comedians today,\u201d he said in defense of the special, adding, \u201cAs with our other talent, we work hard to support their creative freedom\u2026We don\u2019t allow titles that are designed to incite hate or violence, and we don\u2019t believe \u2018The Closer\u2019 crosses that line\u2026stand-up comedy [exists] to push boundaries.\u201dSarandos added that he did not believe Chappelle\u2019s jokes that include observations like \u201cgender is a fact\u201d are harmful to the transgender community.Sarandos\u2019 co-CEO Reed Hastings echoed this commitment to free speech, saying in an internal memo, \u201cI do believe that our commitment to artistic expression and pleasing our members is the right long term choice for Netflix, and that we are on the right side [of history].\u201dFurther pressed by a disgruntled employee about whether Netflix would commit to more trans-promoting programming to act as a counterweight to Chappelle\u2019s supposed bigotry, Hastings replied, \u201cWe disagree with your characterization and we\u2019ll continue to work with Dave Chappelle in the future. We see him as a unique voice \u2026\u201d He concluded, \u201cWe do not see Dave Chappelle as harmful, or in need of any offset.\u201dFrom there, there was no reason for Netflix to back down. A few C-list, faux-intellectual personalities like lesbian spoken-word artist Hannah Gadsby (name might ring a distant bell) and \u201cDear White People\u201d producer Jaclyn Moore (is that a show?) might have carped, but the real star power was firmly behind comedy\u2019s GOAT.\u00a0Brad Pitt. Snoop Dogg. Jon Hamm. Stevie Wonder. A-listers who need no introduction were happy to give him a standing ovation at the Hollywood Bowl in the middle of the dustup. The message was clear: Tinsel Town\u2019s heaviest hitters won\u2019t make a fuss, Netflix, if you support Chappelle.\u00a0Contrast that to the few Netflix \u201cstars\u201d protesting against him. Would Netflix truly have lost so much if \u201cQueer-Eye\u2019s\u201d resident \u201cgrooming expert\u201d Jonathan Van Ness (who?) decided to take his next hair-dresser reality show elsewhere?Apparently Sarandos thought so. A week after taking a hard line for free speech, he changed his tune, telling The Wall Street Journal, \u201cI screwed up. What I should have led with in those emails was humanity. I should have recognized the fact that a group of our employees was really hurting.\u201d\u00a0Really hurting. All because someone they don\u2019t know and were never compelled to interact with or watch dared to say that J.K. Rowling and self-avowed feminists like her aren\u2019t bigots for believing biology is real.When these attention-seeking staffers finally staged a walkout Wednesday, Netflix did everything but arrange catering trucks for them, putting out a statement saying, \u201cWe value our trans colleagues and allies, and understand the deep hurt that\u2019s been caused. We respect the decision of any employee who chooses to walk out, and recognize we have much more work to do both within Netflix and in our content.\u201dAnd just like that, Netflix showed itself subservient to a lunatic fringe whose influence is so inconsequential they couldn\u2019t muster more than a few dozen protestors for their \u201cStand Up in Solidarity\u201d rally, despite being the beneficiaries of hundreds if not thousands of sympathetic media reports.\u00a0One so-called \u201cDiversity Equity and Inclusion\u201d (DEI) expert told Business Insider the Netflix walkout showed that the company\u2019s leadership \u201chadn\u2019t been engaging in enough conversations with employees or consumers from marginalized communities.\u201dNo, what it shows is that leadership has been engaging with them too much. Now, ten to 20 troublemakers (at most) among Netflix\u2019s more than 12,000 employees think they should be able to disrupt business and deprive the company\u2019s customer base of content they overwhelmingly want because they disagree with a few offhand comments.Consider the abject immaturity of this group: Like teenage drama queens who can\u2019t abide reminders of their prettier, more popular rivals, they have demanded that Netflix purge Chappelle\u2019s image, \u201cincluding murals and posters,\u201d from the office walls. What serious cause issues an edict like this? Will they clamor for Sarandos to draw graffiti on Chappelle\u2019s yearbook pictures next? Ask him to make a Chappelle slam book? These are the antics of self-absorbed children who have spotted a weakness and are now reveling in a petty sense of power with the glee of any playground bully.Yet these are the children \u2014 flouncing about the streets in ball gowns, pearls, and headdresses, larping at persecution \u2014 to whom the titan of the streaming revolution has bent its knee. It would be a comedy sketch in itself if it weren\u2019t all so pathetic.Though the most generous estimates show transgenders make up one half of one percent of the population, the many series, films, and documentaries Netflix has dedicated to their subculture \u2014 so many, news outlets recognize the platform as being a \u201cpioneer of representation\u201d and \u201cchampion of diversity\u201d \u2014 is not enough for them. The fact that GLAAD\u2019s most recent report found that Netflix \u201ccounts the highest number of LGBTQ regular and recurring characters\u201d among the major streaming services is not enough for them.\u00a0That fraction of a single percent cannot tolerate that there yet remains some mainstream form of entertainment that has yet to kowtow to their whims, that isn\u2019t afraid to include their group in the common human experience of being an occasional object of stereotype humor. (Note, no one has taken the slightest umbrage at \u201cThe Closer\u2019s\u201d jokes at the expense of white women.)They dare accuse Chappelle of \u201cpunching down\u201d? Who, given the cringing obeisance trans activists elicit from every corner of the Western cultural landscape, could sit any higher?The farce of seeing these men in false eyelashes and garish, streaked blush out in front of Netflix\u2019s Los Angeles headquarters highlights the truth hidden in one of Chappelle\u2019s most scathing punchlines. \u201cI can\u2019t help thinking,\u201d he quips toward the end of the show, \u201cthat if slaves had had baby oil and booty shorts, [they] might have been free a hundred years sooner.\u201dThe point, of course, is that the trans movement has co-opted the real oppression racial and religious minorities have historically endured, so much so, one of this farce\u2019s leaders claimed that trans people hearing jokes they don\u2019t like about themselves is akin to being the victims of a holocaust.Few pop culture figures have the stature and temerity to name this madness for what it is. Chappelle does.Midway through \u201cThe Closer,\u201d he performs a bit about the #MeToo movement, highlighting the ineffectual, trivial nature of Hollywood activism, where everything is performative and concerned more with promoting one\u2019s personal brand that effecting change:The way they handled [their activism] was stupid. They were doing sh** like going to the Golden Globes and all of them would be like \u2018Let\u2019s all go to the Golden Globes and wear black dresses and give these men a piece of our mind.\u2019You think Martin Luther King was like \u2018I want everybody to keep riding the bus, but wear matching outfits\u2019? You gotta get off the bus and walk. Real talk, that was a silly movement\u2026And I said something about it in one of my specials and all these women actresses came after me \u2026 They were like, \u201cWho is he to tell us anything?\u201d I\u2019ll tell you exactly who I am. I\u2019m the one that got off the bus and left $50 million on the bus and walked.Chappelle\u2019s right. He did get off the bus in 2006 in a show of force against Comedy Central and other networks that coerce talent into signing their life\u2019s work away. Now that Netflix has thrown him under another one, it\u2019s time for him to do it again. Comedy and the liberty it depends on needs a hero to strike a decisive blow for free expression and sanity.To accomplish this, all Dave Chappelle need do is refuse to work with platforms that express shame over partnering with him and get loud about why he\u2019s choosing an outlet that will support his voice without apology. His fans will follow him anywhere.\u00a0Then, all he needs to do is keep fearlessly making us laugh.The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897386,"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-906227","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\/906227","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=906227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}