LGBT is no longer an oppressed group
The reaction to Chappelle proves they are the new establishment
A small minority of far-left activists are lobbying for Netflix to remove Dave Chappelle’s gutsy new comedy special because it is transphobic.
Here are some examples of the hateful comments he made:
“Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth.”
“I’m team TERF. I agree. I agree, man. Gender is a fact.”
Comedy is no longer about being funny. Now, if you do not amplify the identity politics of the extremist minority, they will organize into a mob to have you censored.
The Rotten Tomatoes audience score for Closer, meanwhile, is 96 percent positive. Only the virtue signaling, mob-compliant mainstream professional critics said they hated it, as they are required to do. Note, these are not the edgy, fringe resistance critics — these are mainstream critics with careers.
The Resistance
When a comedian challenges the LGBT cultural monopoly in the way that Chappelle has, the response from the left is that they’re “punching down” at oppressed and under-represented minority communities. The entire basis of this viewpoint is that the LGBT lobby is a sort of persecuted underground resistance movement.
In reality, the LGBT movement is the establishment. Their flag is flown over government buildings, US embassies, and Federal Reserve Banks. Overseas, the UK Parliament and Canadian Parliament both signal the required virtue in this way as well.
The LGBT lobby, a political faction that is relatively small in number, can always rely comfortably on the institutional protection and unfailing support of major world governments, the entire entertainment industry, all of silicon valley, and the military industrial complex itself.
What could be more anti-establishment than having your colors flown above the most powerful institutions in the world?
In the UK you can be imprisoned for making jokes about trans people. The two major political parties there are afraid to use the word “woman” for fear of drawing the ire of the activists.
This “oppressed minority” is able to control cultural thought by changing language. They can rely on the media and technology companies to dehumanize, demoralize, and destroy the lives of their critics without question. They can even rely on the state, in some places, to have their critics literally arrested and thrown in jail for so much as making a joke.
The LGBT community is no longer an oppressed minority group — They are the establishment. Dave Chappelle is not punching down when he makes a joke about trans issues, or expresses an opinion on gender — he is punching up. Like Chappelle said himself, it was easier for “the alphabet people” to get cultural acceptance and institutional power than it was for people of color. The reaction to his challenge of their supremacy proves that point very elegantly.
These small fringe groups wield enormous cultural, political, and social power. They have massive control over the public discussion, and they decide who gets censored by calling for the destruction of those they disagree with. Powerful institutions, both private and public, are all too eager to comply. How could a group that wields so much control over others claim to be oppressed? They are the new establishment.
Dave Chappelle, like J. K. Rowling before him, has been designated a right-wing bigot by the extremist mob. Meanwhile, Chappelle released an entire Netflix special about racism, George Floyd, BLM, and the history of slavery.
Comedians like Chappelle take on everyone of any group — white, black, everybody. If you take on the LGBT community, however, even by simply cracking a joke, you are against the wall for the firing squad to finish off. Or, as Dave himself said it:
“No matter what you do in your artistic expression, you are never, ever allowed to upset the alphabet people.”
The real problem with Dave Chappelle is that the vast majority of sensible people probably agree with him, which explains the Rotten Tomatoes audience score. By daring to be a voice for those people and boldly proclaiming himself to be a part of “Team TERF,” he threatens to dismantle the power monopoly of this fringe group of radical extremists who, by playing wounded, have shut down the ability of ordinary people to have an opinion on the matter at all.
The real threat is not to LGBT people or to their lives. The real threat is to this tiny group’s cultural power monopoly. So, of course they’re going to scream about it.