Dave Chappelle has been in the news lately. His Netflix special "The Closer" has gotten a lot of attention from the gay, and transgender communities. There have been talks of cancelling Chappelle, and there was walkout of Netflix employees, but they aren't going to be effective at canceling Dave Chappelle.
Chapelle has a couple serious protections against being canceled. For one he's black. He's also a black comedian that can be seen as pro black. A lot of his jokes have been about white people, or about what he feels are issues of racism against black people. The majority of the black community is more than willing to stand with Chapelle, and in order to effectively "cancel" him you got to get the black community to turn against him. Even if Netflix let go of him, which they haven't indicated they are going to do, he can still make a pretty good living off of his popularity in the black community. Not to mention his popularity with people of other races. He walked away from a 50 million dollar deal with Comedy Central, and was able to comeback, and build up momentum before he even got his Netflix deal. Having the deal certainly helps but he can do quite well without it. If anything people might feel that it backs the opinion that LGBT people are more protected than black people.
Also because Chappelle is a relatively left leaning popular black comedian some of those same buzzwords that seem to be so effective when used against white people, especially heterosexual white males, aren't going to be nearly as effective. I read a comment from some idiot on twitter who reacted to Jon Stewart defending Chappelle, by saying that they expect that from a cisgendered white male. They also has numerous positive responses. Imagine a black comedian defending Chapelle, and someone who isn't black saying that they expect that from a cisgendered black male. You can't just use a bunch of buzzwords to get the black community to turn against Dave Chappelle, or to get those supporting Chappelle to shut up. It just isn't going to work. Dababy hasn't even been cancelled. Not with the black community anyway, and he said things that were much more homophobic than what Dave Chappelle got in trouble for.
I had already watched all of his last two specials on Netflix, and took the time to watch is 2017 special to see what else he may said that offended people. Some of this jokes about trans people would be enough to disgust most homophobes such as saying that Cat. Jenner should spread the lips for a nude pic for Sports Illustrated. Stick, and Stones was the comedy special in which it got really big, but I don't remember any mean spirited transphobic jokes. The Closer takes on a more serious tone, and that's part of the reason I don't like it as much as Sticks, and Stones. He did make a false equivialance in bring up homicide involving DaBaby because that was self defense, and the media has certainly shown that they care greatly about the deaths of black men, when they are killed by people who aren't black. He did say he was TERF, but he also said that he was a feminist, which he obviously isn't. He was just poking fun at the dictionary definition of a feminist. He said gender is real, which it is btw. Why can't someone recognize the reality of gender, and still agree with someone's right to change up their body to look like a member of the opposite sex. One of the big problems with social justice is that it doesn't leave much room for middle ground. If you are on their side then you need to go all the way. Overall it stoked the fires even more than the previous specials, and it was supposed to. This was his chance to address to controversy, and I didn't expect him to back down.
Black people in general don't really like the gay movement. Yes there are some of us who support, but for the most part that is not the case. No other race is more against it than black people. Among no other race is being gay, or trans as controversial as it is in the black race. To get Chappelle cancelled you've got to convince black people that what he said, which wasn't even homophobic, is that bad to turn against him. That isn't going to happen.
