Dave has always been on this Jew issue.
You remember when he defended Kanye on Saturday Night Live?
The guy gets it. I don’t think he likes white people very much (I think he resents the fact that he’s basically a highbrow minstrelsy), but that isn’t a crime. I don’t really like black people very much myself.
The point is: Dave is the kind of person who should be in charge of the black community. Instead he’s effectively banished from the mainstream. He’s managed to ride some kind of weird line, where he’s still allowed to go in and get his money and come back out again. I don’t really understand it, beyond some vague black privilege and the fact that he’s just been smart about shit. He kinda ducks and dodges. It’s amazing he made it out of that SNL thing, after lying about what he was going to say in the monologue. I don’t think he’s going to have another Netflix special, but he’s still doing these comedy club gigs.
New York Post:
Comedian Dave Chappelle criticized the United States for backing Israel’s “war crimes” against Palestinians during a live performance in Boston Thursday, prompting some audience members to walk out, according to a report.
The controversial comic made the remarks during a show at the TD Garden on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Chappelle condemned Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that left some 1,400 Israelis dead — but blasted what he claimed were Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, sparking some pushback from the crowd, people in attendance told the outlet.
The brouhaha started when a member of the audience told Chappelle to “shut up” after he said he didn’t think people should lose their jobs for supporting Palestinians, according to the Journal.
See, if I was Dave Chappelle, and some guy stood up and told me to shut up after calling out Israel, I would do the “Dave Chappelle frowning with wide eyes and looking downward and whispering into the mic” face and say “Mr. Hitler, you’re gonna wanna put this one back in the oven. He’s still whining.”
But Dave is cool. He doesn’t go over the edge.
Chappelle, in response, criticized the Israeli government’s decision to cut off food, water and electricity to Gaza.
He also accused Israel of killing innocent civilians and committing war crimes, according to the report.
It’s a “report” because he makes everyone put their cellphones in a locked bag and they get kicked out of the show if they open it. This is brilliant, because aside from the fact that it makes everything about the atmosphere of the show better and more fun, no one can do outrage clipping.
It’s reported that he said this stuff about the Jews, but if there was a clip of it to go viral, that would be six million times more likely to result in a canceling.
I think people should study Dave. I think he’s an important figure in society, and I think it’s important that he demonstrated some desire to be a leader in the black community and then was basically scared off and decided to just chill and do his best to get out a little bit of a message while not blowing up his own life.
Ultimately, it’s a fail. You have to have people willing to blow up their own lives (like, ironically, Kanye did – before surrendering totally because he caught a whiff).
I blew up my own life. It sucks. But I’m old enough now that if I was going to regret it, I would, and I don’t. I did the right thing, and I know that God is going to weigh that when I’m dead. And, I know He’s already weighed it. I’ve been protected and taken care of. My life could be a lot worse, given what I’ve done, going full-on and saying every single thing that I believed needed to be said.
The impact I’ve had on the culture is palpable. I made anti-Semitism cool and I helped shape the thinking of the men who are going to shape the 21st century. It was a brutal sacrifice, and I’m reminded of it every day. I mean, I don’t go around pitying myself every day, or really at all (maybe once in a while, if I’m totally honest), it’s just that the effects of what I’ve done come up every single day. I’m not able to live or make money like a normal human being. My professional and personal life both involve all kinds of weird, stupid, complicated bullshit.
I was always going to be a writer on the internet. I’ve been doing that since MySpace, when I was 17, and I was writing since I was a boy. But I could have been Alex Jones. I could have millions of dollars and be spending $100,000 a month eating pangolin. I could do the edgy shit about blacks and trannies, probably. I just wouldn’t be able to talk about the Jews. That’s the one thing you’re not allowed to talk about – the Jews and their stupid Holocaust hoax.
On the scale of braveness, I would rank Dave above Alex. At least Dave will say the Jew thing, sort of. He won’t go full-on, and say what every single person on earth above a certain intelligence threshold is aware of (see: Chinese university studies on Jews running America). But he says a little bit and doesn’t go out there defending the baby-killers like Alex Jones does.
It’s strange to realize how unique it is to have an overwhelming drive to tell the truth. I would never celebrate myself as some kind of ultra- moral person. Forgive me if it has ever sounded like I was doing that. I don’t really believe that about myself. When I say God is going to give me credit, I’m thinking about a scorecard on Judgement Day, where my sins and suffering in the name of the truth will be weighed. But on the whole, in observing myself, I see an overwhelming drive that I was born with to tell the truth for no logical or specific reason.
With regards to the issue of Judgement Day, I do not even claim that I acted on that initially. When I first started talking about Jews, it was because it was funny. When people first started coming at me and saying “you can’t say that,” my response was “lol, watch me.” It just feels, internally, that there is an overpowering need to say this stuff, which outweighs any other possible concern of mortal beings. When I say things that are true, that no one else will say, it feels like there is a divine power flowing through me.
What’s the Metallica thing?
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