“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” the comedian Dave Chappelle quipped on Saturday at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the first event of its kind in Saudi Arabia. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.”
They irony of that statement while doing a comedy show where they literally have a list of things you’re not allowed to talk about and also hacked up a journalist for speaking.
Jesus fucking Christ. Fuck Dave Chappelle. Fuck Bill Burr. Fuck Jessica Kirson. Fuck Pete Davidson. Fuck them all. Putting money over their own souls. I guess that I’m not all that surprised. Most of them made their money shitting on minorities. And, I know this sounds stupid, but a few weeks/ months ago, I did kind of call it for Bill Burr. He just never seemed like a guy that really cared imo.
I’ve been saying this for a long time, but it made people on the left in particular angry to hear it, because everyone loved it so much when he directed his caustic apathy towards the people who deserved it the most, but he’s never been an “ally” of any kind. Just a cathartic voice at times.
Celebrities are people. We should never put people on pedestals. Put ideas on pedestals.
Ironically, the right is better about this because they’re so dumb they shovel everything onto a pedestal, and accidentally create unity and community as a result.
I think that’s the point that he’s trying to make. You’re not allowed to joke about things here either, and we had a president who was known as the Deporter in Chief, had the most drone strikes on Muslim countries, started the most wars of any US president, and had a War on Whistleblowers. And now we have Trump.