make insightful joke about power and power structures. it s unlikely he doesn t understand or know how marginalized trans people are in this country. and this is all forcing a conversation that s healthy that we should be having. the fact that you re a member of a marginalized community doesn t prevent you from causing harm to another. this is undergirding this entire conversation about dave chappelle. he doesn t speak on it and explain why he s doing his jokes. netflix doesn t seem like they re going to pull it because a lot of people are watching it. like you said, ayman, the rest of us are having a conversation about how marginalized people are because jokes can lead to
i ll discuss right-wing media and what it plays in society. and comedian david chapelle back and controversial as ever. i ll break down which comments are commenting the most outrage. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. the drama came very close to testing the filibuster.
the dehumanization of people and that can lead to violence. it s not that he s calling people to go out and kill trans people of color but it doesn t help. reporter: s a reaction on twitter saying that what we object to is the harm that contact like this does to the trans community and very specifically black trans women. i d like your thoughts. i think it s a shame because what dave chappelle did is what we women down, we fail to see ourselves as the oppressor instead of the oppressed. we fail to act and have the privilege to do something about it. i m just really disappointed.
says the n word. i don t like a lot of what he was saying. there s a lot of problematic issues. the best people to spoke are black trans women and dave was talk about black versus gay and i think there s to some extent with comedians like dave and other men in this country and black men, white men, having a hard time losing kind of the hierarchy, the dominance that we ve had. dave could go after so many other issues. i m not sure why he is so focused on this one. i do think it s really problematic for sure. part of the his genius is the narrative he weaves. why is he weaving this narrative? is it because going after trans and gay people is drawing attention? at the end of the day, this is a business. he wants viewership just as much as anybody does.
great. it s not like they re principals or governors or policy makers. the first goal is to make us law, which doesn t take away anything liz said. there is harm being done. sorry. to that point, he does invoke a personal story about a friend of his who was trans, talks about this in a very personal way. what i got out of it, i m happy to be corrected, i you felt he was trying to weave a narrative of empathy, saying he wanted to look beyond identity and be empathetic and if we could all be united in the empathy, that s what s going to bond us, rather than our identity. obviously we have different feelings. liz told me to tell you, pete dominic, your check is in the mail. i ll send you another book. you can give it to dave. pete, get that book to dave chappelle. thank you guys so much for