"Chappelle responded... 'My friend, with all due respect, I don’t believe you could make one of the decisions I have to make on a given day.' That peeved some students who were hoping for an apology or some semblance of one from Chappelle.... [A]nother student in the audience shouted at him, 'Your comedy kills,' and Chappelle shot back, 'N------ are killed every day.' He then asked, 'The media’s not here, right?'... The two students we spoke to declined to go on the record out of fear of retribution from the school. The father of one of the students, who also declined to speak publicly to protect the identity of his daughter, said, 'As a parent, I have to say I have a real problem. … He was being dead serious and using the n-word on the record. What kind of judgment is the school showing to allow that?'... [T]he Chappelle spokesperson, responded: 'They are complaining that he talked and said the n-word. If anything, Dave is putting the school on the map.'... [The spokesperson] said Chappelle was expecting forgiveness from students.... 'He said these kids deserve an F for forgiveness.... Give them some space to grow. They are going to say things that are immature.'"
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"POLITICO Playbook: A Dave Chappelle Thanksgiving special." Chappelle made a surprise appearance at his alma mater the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
I note that a student called him "childish" and his spokesperson called the students "immature."
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Dave gives back what he gets. I respect him for that fact alone.
Blacks can say the n-word any time they want...they get a pass because our society treats them like children and doesn't expect anything better of them.
"He was being dead serious and using the n-word on the record."
If he was on the record, where's the record? If he was on the record, why do we have to hear about it from anonymous second-hand sources?
One of the people in that dialogue with the 16 year old is childish. One childish person of the two took all their experience and knowledge and vomited forth a childish opinion lacking any basis other than what he's been told recently. The other chioldish person involved is professionally childish, and makes people laugh for money. Lots of money. Lots.
I know who is doing childish better here. And so does the 16 year old.
" [A]nother student in the audience shouted at him, 'Your comedy kills'..."
Show me the comedian and I'll show you the crime.
-Loren
Are woke Black people going to cancel all the other Black people who use the N-word?
This is going to be hilarious to watch.
He was being dead serious and using the n-word on the record.
Imaginary horrors are used to form most of media-based morality.
Chappelle being criticized by a couple of gadfly types.
Profound ignorance married to invincible over-confidence.
The quoted students are clearly clueless if, prior to this encounter, they have never heard a Black man use the N-word.
I pray for their safety when they have to fend for themselves in the real world.
Its interesting. The lefties loved loved loved their hero "Jo-Jo" Rosenbaum using the n word.....
Fun fact: "Duke's" real name was Edward Kennedy Ellington.
'Your comedy kills'
No it doesn't. Trannies have a lower murder rate than normal people.
"That peeved some students who were hoping for an apology or some semblance of one from Chappelle...."
Good. I'm getting pretty sick of people who feel so entitled to an apology they get peeved if they don't get one.
"[A]nother student in the audience shouted at him, 'Your comedy kills,' and Chappelle shot back, 'N------ are killed every day.'"
I wish he'd shot back, No it doesn't.
"He was being dead serious and using the n-word on the record."
And yet, here you all are. Still alive, affected only to the extent that you choose to be.
I have the same problem as Chappelle when the extended family gathers for holiday meals. The crazy lefties take me on and I defend myself, which can result in their feelings being hurt. There are some who might agree with me but they are smart enough to keep their mouths shut. If only we were Jehovah Witnesses, none of this would happen. Bon appétit.
See McWhorter on the n-word. He makes sense on everything else, so maybe he's right about that, too. There are two words with different meanings and some people pronounce them the same way.
This Chappelle cycle of outrage is just about over. A new outrage cycle will be starting up next year.
You see that there is no such thing as cancel culture. Because there's one guy they can't cancel even though they're trying.
There is also no such thing as murder, because Rittenhouse missed one of them.
"He was being dead serious and using the n-word on the record. What kind of judgment is the school showing to allow that?"
Well, that depends. Were there medical personnel standing by?
Why can’t they all lose?
Perhaps they already have…
Shorter Duke Ellington School Student Body:
"Up yours, N*****!"
Respect is never preceded by ‘With all due respect…’.
Sigh......nothing is more irritating as a middle-aged person than to be lectured by a 16 year-old who barely knows enough to wipe their own asses. I wish I knew this when I was a 16 year-old.
"With all due respect" is my favorite dis' setup. I also like "No offense, but ..."
I have come to the conclusion that all of human history is built on passive-aggressiveness. The serpent in Eden was a master of the form: "Has God really said ...?"
He used the word to punctuate the point. People of color are in fact killed every day. Their deaths go unnoticed because their lives aren't (statistically speaking) taken by someone of the pale penis people persuasion. Black lives seem only to matter when they are taken by dumbass racist cops. When they're taken in a drive by or a grocery store hold up, they're just a statistic.
Oh I wish I was that age again. I knew everything. At the age of 45 I don't know anything any more.
I believe Bob Dylan wrote a song about that.
"He said these kids deserve an F for forgiveness"
True but misses the point. Which is that in progressive secular religion there is no forgiveness--no forgiveness and no salvation. The Other must be destroyed, and a luta continua, always.
"I note that a student called him "childish" and his spokesperson called the students "immature."
Sometimes projection works in both directions.
It sounds like the school is creating a nice group of totalitarians there.
I am overjoyed to be in my late sixties rather than my late twenties. It's gonna get really scary in the future.
I don't mind at all giving them some space to grow. My complaint is that we have to say that they are correct.
Outstanding Dave! This listening and patronizing the perpetually butt hurt and insane needs to stop. Look how these grown babies handle just the mildest push back. Pathetic.
“At a time of my choosing” - Dave Chappell towards the end of The Closer.
This appearance at school was a rehearsal for the more formidable crowd he has in mind facing.
Didn't the ancient Israelites have a thing about saying the name of Y.....h aloud. If you said it aloud the Y-god or one of his followers would instantly strike you dead. The n word has some of that power. It's the most powerful word in the English language. You can get away with jerking off on a zoom call,but a white person saying the n-word will get himself fired, cancelled, and consigned to perpetual infamy without any chance of pardon. A decent man caught up in such a scandal should do the right thing and commit suicide.... Given its tremendous power and impact I think the N word should be capitalized. Maybe italics would further help. We should respect the awesome power of the N-word in our written as well as verbal communications. Maybe people should cross themselves when they make reference to the N-word and say how much they hate George Zimmerman. More attention must be paid.
Speaking of the "N" word...
Recently discovered that the Patti Smith Group's song "Rock and Roll N*****" is still uncancelled and available on Amazon Music.
How the heck does a reporter have contact with a student's father? Did the student say, I'm too traumatized, talk to my dad? Or did a WaPo reporter have the vapors over Chapelle coming to his kid's school and get this reporter to write a story?
The latter seems very likely. I can't imagine giving anonymity to a college dad. Pathetic. And not Kanye pathetic.
The trivialization of America. A comedian basically says boys are boys and girls are girls and a bunch of silly students influenced by silly Democrat* parents and teachers fling hyperbolic silliness at him and it’s newsworthy. (*You just know they’re Democrats.)
Meanwhile, homeless people fill our city streets, shopping malls are assaulted and robbed by mobs, gas prices rise, Navy ships rust the shipyards, the chicoms have a hypersonic missile, enslave people and harvest organs, 61 million unborn babies will never see the light, a doofus sits in the White House with two harridans in reserve, etc.
And OMG, the n-word.
We’re toast.
How many times has Chappelle been told, “you killed out there tonight Dave”, without ever denying it? It’s an adoptive admission. Also, consider the movie “Joker”. So yes, comedy kills. (As Mel Brooks said “Tragedy is when I get a paper cut, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and drown.”) It just doesn’t kill trans people. But if about 40 trans people are killed in a year as opposed to about 16,000 Americans, then the ratio doesn’t get disproportionate unless significantly fewer than .25% of Americans are transgendered.
Of course Chappelle is childish--we're a childish country in a lot of ways. And he answered that already with the vocal work "Diarreah."
He shouldn't give the little twerps an inch, and may inspire others.
JPS and Lucien, remember that on the Left, violence is speech and speech is violence. That shouting student didn't mean kills as in murders but that some freak might have been offended by Chappelle's choice of words. His response that black people are murdered every day and (paraphrasing) all of you entitled lil' fvckers don't pay attention, was spot on.
I watched two or three of Dave Chappelle's routines on Netflix. I thought he was funny. Yeah, it must have been three now that I think about it because I couldn't help but notice they were all structured the same and it takes three to make a series.
Anyway, the laughs were enough for me. Netflix is a sunk cost. Had I not watched Dave Chappelle, I'd have only wasted my time watching something else.
People can think he's some kind of a hero if they want to. What do I care?
But the vaping? That's just plain, flat-out wrong.
I also watched the comedy thing done by Dave Chappelle's co-writer on Chappelle's Show. Three Mics or something like that. Let's look it up. Neal Brennan. Anyway, I watched it all the way through so it couldn't have been that terrible but that's not much of an endorsement.
At the end of the show he did something that . . . oops . . . almost spoiled it.
Suffice it to say the abrupt editing of the show implied he didn't have enough material to work his way seamlessly from start to finish, something Dave Chappelle excels at. Say what you will, the man can make a presentation buffed to a glossy finish as if it were off-the-cuff.
Back to Neal Brennan. Woody Allen said being funny is nobody's first choice in life. The problem with Three Mics was the guy didn't even come close to making it seem as if maybe Woody Allen's wrong about that.
That anonymous parent really takes the cake. That sounds a little "helicopter" to me. "Dad, will you tell this reporter why Mr. Chapelle made me feel unsafe? Who does he think he is, anyway?"
And, Dave, did you really expect forgiveness? That's not the way it rolls these days. You are never forgiven unless you crawl. But you are not going to crawl, are you? You are an observational comic. This is meat for your hamburger.
I want nothing to do with any of these people, except maybe Dave, but what would he want to do with me? I am square, white, and increasingly aged. I don't have a Facebook account. I think the news feeds that aol and yahoo and google put on my screens are absurd, biased, and stupid. The headlines are manipulated to confirm lefty talking points. So, my computer insults me when I turn it on.
I am going back to print--except of course for Althouse, where for some reason I am drawn.
My undergraduate years are more than a half century in the rear view mirror, but I seem to recall that back then, just like the students in this article, I knew everything. Then I graduated.
Academics, hystericals and others have been making the claim that "comedy kills" for 40+ years. So far, no proof has been offered. Anybody ever make this claim about any other art form?
I have thought that in comedic circles “He’s killing it!” was praise. I don’t think Dave took it that way this time.
They thought Dave was going to take their silliness seriously.
He's not the media.
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