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I find it funny that there's been virtually no discussion about his trans comedian friend (forget their name) and how the bullying they received because she stuck up for Chappelle drove her to suicide. You'd think the trans community should stop and reflect on why this happened. But nope, apparently their death is justified because Chappelle bad!

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> and how the bullying they received because she stuck up for Chappelle drove her to suicide

Thats exactly what Chappelle did not say. He said that the bulling might not caused the suicide, but it sure did not help.

I find it baffling that he developed a quite deep relationship with her - a transgender person - gave her a golden ticket (frontrunning for of the biggest comedians) as a token of appreciation and he gets called out as anti trans person.

He deep cuts all of those fake virtue signalling people who do nothing and sacrifice noting for 'the cause', he walked away from the money of questionable hollywood people he took a stand. Maybe thats what irks those people?

Mad world, mad world.

> I find it baffling that he developed a quite deep relationship with her - a transgender person - gave her a golden ticket (frontrunning for of the biggest comedians) as a token of appreciation and he gets called out as anti trans person.

As a Black person, the most common and tired defense of White racists has always been “Look at this one Black person I treated well, that proves I’m not a racist.”

I guess its some kind of progress that that's now a defense against charges of bigotry by Black people as well as against them.

I have friends involved in the LGBT community since forever, and even them openly admit that the trans community is a cesspool. One thing that has become abundantly clear through history is that even marginalized groups, once empowered, have the potential (and often a vengeful inclination) to make others suffer.

> I have friends involved in the LGBT community since forever, and even them openly admit that the trans community is a cesspool.

Is there even a "trans community"? As far as I can tell, they try to stick together with the LGB crowd, rather successfully. The groups that are skeptical of T founded their own organizations, but I'd say they're very much a minority. Trans-progressivism is very much main stream, also as far as laws in different countries are concerned.

Yes. Empowerment is mistaken to mean power and authority over others instead of power and control over one's own destiny. When so distorted, such a "community" becomes a dominance hierarchy where the most aggrieved wins. History shows it is never healthy, it merely perfects bullying and viciousness.

Transcribed some of what Dave said in the special in another comment (didn't see this comment at the time as it took a while!).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28930777

While I completely agree with the general sentiment of your comment, I believe that it has not been asserted that the bullying was the main factor for her death. At least as far as what Chappelle said during the show.

This is making it about Chappelle again, but clearly the issue as related in the news reports is more about a past-due dialog between Netflix and those constituent parts it theoretically values. Chappelle is an example but it doesn't seem to be the whole story, intense in various details though it may be.

Chappelle's characterisation of that incident is heavily disputed. There has been a lot of discussion about it.

https://twitter.com/LilySimpson1312/status/14484175314300149...

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