{"id":25509,"date":"2021-10-27T11:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=25509"},"modified":"2021-10-27T11:14:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:14:40","slug":"dave-chappelle-addresses-netflix-transgender-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=25509","title":{"rendered":"Dave Chappelle addresses Netflix transgender controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe controversy began after Netflix Inc decided to release Dave Chappelle\u2019s new comedy special, “The Closer,” which critics say ridicules transgender people. Comedian Dave Chappelle on Monday addressed the transgender controversy at Netflix in full for the first time on a video on his Instagram account, five days after about 100 people protested near the streaming company\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n

The employee backlash began after Netflix Inc decided to release Chappelle\u2019s new comedy special, The Closer, which critics say ridicules transgender people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been said in the press that I was invited to speak to transgender employees at Netflix and I refused,\u201d Chappelle said in the video. \u201cThat is not true. If they had invited me I would have accepted it. Although I am confused about what we are speaking about. You said you want a safe working environment at Netflix. Well it seems like I\u2019m the only one that can\u2019t go to the office anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want everyone in this audience to know that even though the media frames this as me versus that community, it\u2019s not what it is,\u201d Chappelle said. \u201cDo not blame the LBGTQ community for any of this shit. This has nothing to do with them. It\u2019s about corporate interest and what I can say and what I cannot say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos stoked further unrest with an October 11 staff memo in which he acknowledged Dave Chappelle\u2019s provocative language in The Closer but said it did not cross the line into inciting violence.<\/p>\n

In interviews before the walkout, Sarandos acknowledged \u201cI screwed up\u201d in how he spoke to Netflix\u2019s staff about the special.<\/p>\n

In Monday\u2019s video, Chappelle said that after the controversy he began getting disinvited from film festivals that had accepted a documentary he made last summer, and that he is now making that documentary available in ten American cities.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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