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Dave Chappelle says his trans jokes 'went down well' at Saudi Arabia gig (www.thepinknews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/transgender/p/416270/dave-chappelle-says-his-trans-jokes-went-down-well-at-saudi-arabia-gig

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

He's a Muslim, I think it was safe to assume he's not a fan of Israel BEFORE the current iteration of the genocide against Palestinians tbh.

Though I don't even remember his trans jokes being intentionally malicious or anything. More like... Just poor taste and then he doubled down on it.

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[–] ImADifferentBird@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

It hardly matters at this point. Even if it wasn't malicious at first, it became malicious as soon as he doubled down, and tripled down, and quadrupled down...

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