Huevos Chapelle-os
PS Huevos is a word for balls on a Mexican/Spanish TV show I've been watching.
The late quadriplegic cartoonist pointed out that what's dehumanizing is treating certain people as off limits for jokes while we joke about everybody else. It's why he made jokes about people like himself. One he used to toss out while buzzing around Portland in his motorized wheelchair? "Like my new shoes? I hear they're very comfortable!"
Jokes are not hate -- but they've been turned into that by people who seek to have unearned power over others through accusing others of "cancellable" violations:
I love Dave Chappelle for having the balls so few do lately. Spiked's Brendan O'Neill writes:
There is something a tad disquieting about Dave Chappelle's demeanour in his new Netflix stand-up special, The Closer, filmed in Detroit. For a while, as I watched him joke about coronavirus, racism and the trans question, I couldn't put my finger on it. Then it struck me. It was his lack of nerves that felt unnerving. Here was a man making gags about some of the most vexed topics of our time, even going so far as to joke about trans women's 'vaginas' ('I'm not saying it's not pussy, but it's Beyond Pussy or Impossible Pussy'). And yet he displayed neither the darting-eye angst that so often accompanies the saying of unsayable things, nor the smug self-satisfaction of those who blaspheme against woke orthodoxies for the thrill of it. No, this was a man calmly, funnily saying what he believes to be true, as if he were compelled to do so, as if he could do no other. And that, in this era in which people either sheepishly duck controversy or hug the hell out of it for the retweets, feels unusual, and bracing...(I)t is Chappelle's refusal to censor himself, his preference for saying what he believes to be true rather than what the cultural elites insist is true, that makes him stand out. In The Closer, this was most clear on the trans issue. As any 'gender critical' woman will tell you, criticising, or even just questioning, the ideology of transgenderism is to the 21st century what denying the truth of the Bible was to the 15th century. You'll be hounded, harassed, deprived of your platforms, possibly sacked. Yet Chappelle - possibly from the luxurious position of being a largely uncancellable comedy giant - waded in. He had to.
He talked about the cancellation of JK Rowling - an author who 'sold so many books, the Bible worries about her' - simply for believing that sex is real. The trans community got 'mad as shit', he said: 'They started calling her a TERF. I didn't even know what the fuck that was. But I know that trans people make up words to win arguments.' He looked up TERF, discovered what it means - trans-exclusionary radical feminist - and then decided he is 'Team TERF'. TERFs, he said, are a group of women who 'look at trans women the way we blacks might look at blackface. It offends them, like eww this bitch is doing an impression of me.' It is a testament to the shrunken nature of public discussion today that it felt genuinely shocking, and elating, to hear someone express a truth as profound as that one.
Don't like it? Don't listen. And we should stand against those who seek to mob those who are less powerful and high-status than Dave Chappelle. There's a huge chill on free speech lately -- people afraid to say even relatively bland things (for fear they'll be taken down) -- and it's ruinous for our culture.
You know who your betters are when you discover who you may not criticize.
Impossible Pussy
*giggle*snort*
I R A Darth Aggie at October 8, 2021 7:44 AM
When the Nazis took over Germany, Sebastian Haffner was a young lawyer working in the Prussian Supreme Court, the Kammergericht. On the evening of the day when the Nazis came to the Court and evicted the Jewish judges and other workers, Haffner went with his girlfriend to a nightclub called the Katacombe. The master of ceremonies was a comic actor and satirical cabaret performer named Werner Fink:
"His act remained full of harmless amiability in a country where these qualities were on the liquidation list. This harmless amiability hid a kernel of real, indomitable courage. He dared to speak openly about the reality of the Nazis, and that in the middle of Germany. His patter contained references to concentration camps, the raids on people’s homes, the general fear and general lies. He spoke of these things with infinitely quiet mockery, melancholy, and sadness. Listening to him was extraordinarily comforting."
In the morning, the Prussian Kammergericht, with its tradition of hundreds of years, had ignobly capitulated before the Nazis. In the same evening, a small troop of artistes, with no tradition to back them up, demonstrated the courage to speak forbidden thoughts. “The Kammergericht had fallen but the Katakombe stood upright.”
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David Foster at October 8, 2021 9:33 AM
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