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Chappelle's particular, "The Closer," consists of a number of minutes of jokes about trans individuals and the LGBTQ group. At one level, Chappelle mentioned he was "team TERF," referencing the time period for "trans-exclusionary radical feminist," and joked about trans girls's genitalia. He additionally mentioned that "gender is a fact" and informed a narrative about beating up a lesbian girl.
Moore, whose Netflix collection "Dear White People" has simply concluded its run, tweeted that she "will not work with [Netflix] as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously homophobic content."
CNN contacted Netflix for touch upon Moore's boycott and criticism of Chappelle's particular and is ready to listen to again. CNN has additionally contacted a consultant for Chappelle and is awaiting remark.
Moore transitioned throughout manufacturing of the present's final season, she informed the Wrap, and was met with respect and assist from her colleagues. But watching Chappelle's most up-to-date particular drove her to sever her relationship with the streaming service, she mentioned. She tweeted that Chappelle was as soon as "one of [her] heroes," however the jokes he made within the particular "have real world consequences" for trans girls, together with violence and hatred, she
said.
"So when he says people should be mad a trans woman won a 'Woman of the Year' award ... When he misgenders... When he says he should've told that mother her daughter WAS A DUDE ... I just can't ... I can't be a part of a company that thinks that's worth putting out and celebrating," she
said.
Moore informed Variety in an unique interview that the language Chappelle used within the particular is "the same language used by people who seek to hurt us."
"I do believe in freedom of speech," she informed Variety's Marc Malkin. "I really do. But I have the freedom of speech to say that somebody's speech bothers me, and I don't want to work with a company that promotes that speech. It's dangerous. It's dangerous language. I can't say it any clearer."
GLAAD, the LGBTQ media advocacy group, additionally condemned the feedback he made in "The Closer."
"Dave Chappelle's brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities," GLAAD
tweeted this week. "Negative reviews and viewers loudly condemning his latest special is a message to the industry that audiences don't support platforming anti-LGBTQ diatribes. We agree."
While Netflix hasn't commented, one among its staff, Terra Field, a senior software program engineer,
tweeted that the problem with Chappelle's particular was that he ridiculed the existence of trans individuals.
"Promoting TERF ideology (which is what we did by giving it a platform yesterday) directly harms trans people, it is not some neutral act," Field tweeted. "This is not an argument with two sides. It is an argument with trans people who want to be alive and people who don't want us to be."
Field ended her thread with the names of 38 trans and gender non-conforming individuals who've been killed all through 2021.
