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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12305367" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="damon-wayans" source="Orion">Damon Wayans</keyword> defended <keyword id="12259168" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dave-chappelle" source="Orion">Dave Chappelle</keyword>'s controversial new comedy special in an interview with TMZ.</li><li>Chappelle's show has been met with criticism after he defended JK Rowling's TERF comments.</li></ul>Damon Wayans defended Dave Chappelle <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/11/damon-wayans-dave-chappelle-netflix-special-free-slaves-lgbt-trans/">when speaking with TMZ</a> in light of the <a href="https://www.insider.com/dave-chappelle-defends-jk-rowlings-comments-about-trans-people-2021-10">controversy surrounding the comedian's new Netflix special, "The Closer." </a>In the show, Chappelle criticized those trying to "cancel" JK Rowling for her TERF (<a href="https://www.insider.com/jk-rowling-what-is-a-terf-trans-exclusionary-radical-feminist-2020-6">trans-exclusionary radical feminist)</a> comments, said "gender is a fact" and described himself as "Team TERF." Chappelle has faced backlash in the past for <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2018/01/dave-chappelle-transgender-jokes-netflix-equanimity-1201912946/">his jokes about the trans community</a>.Speaking to TMZ, Wayans, best known for his role on "My Wife and Kids," compared Chappelle to the artist <keyword id="12305370" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="van-gogh" source="Orion">van Gogh</keyword>."I feel like Dave freed the slaves. Yeah, the comedians," the 61-year-old actor told TMZ. "We were slaves to PC culture and he just, you know as an artist he's van Gogh. He cut his ear off. He's trying to tell us it's ok."<div type="image" title="dave chappelle the closer" height="2182" width="2909" msid="86992040" hostid="261"></div>Wayans continued: "I've always been free. I just think he's saying, 'You know what? All that I have, I'm not afraid to lose it for the sake of creative freeness of speech.' You can't edit yourself. Comedians, we're like... Mercedes makes a great car, but you gotta crash a lot of them before they perfect it."When asked about the content of the show, Wayans responded: "I can't speak about the content of the show. But what I say is, there's a bigger conversation we need to have. Someone needs to look us in the eye and go, 'You're no longer free in this country. You're not free to say what you want. You say what we want you to say. Otherwise, we will cancel you.' That's the discussion we should have.""He's [Chappelle] a unicorn. He's amazing. He's a van Gogh," he added.After the release of the special, <keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword> employees <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-employees-speak-out-against-transphobic-chappelle-comments-2021-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">spoke out against it</a> with one employee tweeting: "I didn't expect my job to include supporting the platforming of hate speech when I woke up today, yet here we are."<div type="image" title="Dave Chappelle hosting &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; in November 2020." height="1134" width="1512" msid="86992042" hostid="261"></div><keyword id="12271678" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jaclyn-moore" source="Orion">Jaclyn Moore</keyword>, the showrunner of another Netflix series <a href="https://www.insider.com/dear-white-people-jacklyn-moore-dave-chappelle-netflix-2021-10">"Dear White People," tweeted</a> that she would no longer work with Netflix after they released the special. In an <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/dear-white-people-jaclyn-moore-dave-chappelle-netflix-1235083197/">interview with Variety</a>, Moore, who is trans, <a href="https://www.insider.com/dear-white-people-showrunner-jaclyn-moore-boycotting-netflix-dave-chappelle-transphobic-2021-10">explained that</a> she did not want to "cancel" Chappelle but was surprised Netflix aired the show.Three Netflix employees <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-suspends-employees-says-it-wasnt-for-chappelle-criticism-2021-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">were suspended earlier this week</a> for attending an executive meeting they were not invited to in which according to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/11/22720724/netflix-suspends-trans-employee-tweeted-dave-chappelle-the-closer?utm_campaign=theverge&amp;utm_content=chorus&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitterurce=twitter">Verge</a>, Netflix co-CEO <keyword id="12305369" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ted-sarandos" source="Orion">Ted Sarandos</keyword> defended the platforming of the controversial comedy special. These employees were <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-reinstated-trans-employee-suspended-protesting-dave-chappelles-comedy-special-2021-10">reinstated a day later.</a>

Damon Wayans compares Dave Chappelle to van Gogh, says he's 'freed the slaves' with Netflix special

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"Dear White People" showrunner <keyword id="12271678" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jaclyn-moore" source="Orion">Jaclyn Moore</keyword> announced a boycott of <keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword> over Dave Chappelle.</li><li>Moore said Chappelle's Netflix comedy special included "dangerously transphobic" comments.</li></ul>The showrunner of Netflix's popular series "Dear White People" announced Thursday on Twitter that she would no longer work with the streaming service after what she described as <a href="https://twitter.com/JaclynPMoore/status/1445912662093729793">"blatantly and dangerously transphobic" comments</a> Dave Chappelle made in his latest comedy special.During a new <a href="https://variety.com/2021/streaming/news/dear-white-people-jaclyn-moore-dave-chappelle-netflix-1235083197/">interview with Variety</a>, Jaclyn Moore, who transitioned during the pandemic, explained why she has decided to boycott the streamer."I never loved Dave's trans material before but this time it felt different," Moore told the publication. "This is the first time I felt like, 'Oh, people are laughing at this joke and they're agreeing that it's absurd to call me a woman.'"Moore said she had "no desire" to cancel Chappelle, and the comedian should be allowed to "make whatever he wants to make." But she said she was surprised that Netflix allowed Chappelle's special to air."They saw this and were like, 'Yeah this seems okay to put out there,'" Moore said.Later she added, "I don't know how it got passed because I will say having worked on a show there, I know that they think about these things and have conversations about these things."Insider has contacted Netflix and representatives for Chapelle for comment.According to a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/dave-chappelle-netflix-special-critics-cancel-culture-1235028197/">report in The Hollywood Reporter</a>, Chappelle returned to the stage at a show in LA for the first time since "The Closer" aired on Netflix. The publication reports that in response to a standing ovation, Chappelle said, "If this is what being canceled is like, I love it." <div type="image" title="A picture of Dave Chapelle during &quot;The Closer.&quot;" height="2680" width="4020" msid="86867589" hostid="261"></div>Later during the interview, Moore said she did not believe pulling Chappelle's special would be a "reasonable outcome" but concluded that something had to be done and she urged companies to hire "trans people to work there who can say, 'Hey, we sure about this?'""I don't know what Netflix should do, but I feel something needs to be done. Whether that's removing part of this special, whether that's amending the special in some way, I don't know," she added.Both Netflix and Chappelle have faced criticism for "The Closer" - the sixth stand-up special the comedian has debuted on the platform.In the special, Chappelle voiced support for the "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling, who has <a href="https://www.insider.com/jk-rowling-transgender-comments-show-reality-wizarding-world-harry-potter-2020-6">been criticized for anti-trans comments.</a> During a monologue, Chappelle also said that "gender is a fact" and "every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth."Earlier this week, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-employees-speak-out-against-transphobic-chappelle-comments-2021-10?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">Insider's Travis Clark reported a series of comments</a> from Netflix employees who criticized the special. One Netflix employee tweeted on Wednesday, "Yesterday we launched another Chappelle special where he attacks the trans community, and the very validity of transness - all while trying to pit us against other marginalized groups.""Promoting TERF ideology (which is what we did by giving it a platform yesterday) directly harms trans people, it is not some neutral act," she added.Chappelle has been widely criticized for transphobic and anti-LGBTQ+ comments in his Netflix specials in the past. In a statement after the release of "The Closer," GLAAD tweeted: "Dave Chappelle's brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities. Negative reviews and viewers loudly condemning his latest special is a message to the industry that audiences don't support platforming anti-LGBTQ diatribes. We agree."

The 'Dear White People' showrunner Jaclyn Moore explains why she won't work with Netflix again over Dave Chappelle's trans jokes

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="11974699" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dear-white-people" source="Orion">Dear White People</keyword>" is trending on Twitter after its showrunner called out <keyword id="12259168" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dave-chappelle" source="Orion">Dave Chappelle</keyword>.</li><li>Jaclyn Moore said she would no longer work with <keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword> after Chappelle's "transphobic" remarks.</li></ul>"Dear White People" is trending on Twitter after people began criticizing the series' showrunner for saying she wouldn't work for Netflix after Dave Chappelle made "transphobic" comments in his recent special on the streaming platform.<a href="https://www.insider.com/dear-white-people-showrunner-jaclyn-moore-boycotting-netflix-dave-chappelle-transphobic-2021-10">Jaclyn Moore</a>, who is transgender, said in a <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/dear-white-people-jaclyn-moore-dave-chappelle-netflix-1235083197/">Variety interview</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/JaclynPMoore/status/1445912662093729793">on Twitter</a> Thursday that she would no longer work for the streaming company "as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content," she wrote. Her tweet has garnered over 1,400 likes and 200 retweets.Moore was referencing comments made by Chappelle on his latest comedy special, "The Closer," which premiered on Netflix on Tuesday. <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/dear-white-people-jaclyn-moore-dave-chappelle-netflix-1235083197/">She told Variety</a> on Thursday that she thinks Chappelle is a "brilliant goofy comedian," but that his comments were "dangerous" and have "real world physical violence repercussions.""I never loved Dave's trans material before but this time it felt different," Moore told Variety. "This is the first time I felt like, 'Oh, people are laughing at this joke and they're agreeing that it's absurd to call me a woman.'"In the episode, Chappelle said that "gender is a fact" and that trans womens' genitalia are "not quite what it is," <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-glaad-lgbtq-trans-netflix-special-homophobia-national-black-justice-coalition-1234851038/">reported Deadline</a>. He also defended "Harry Potter" author <a href="https://www.insider.com/jk-rowling-what-is-a-terf-trans-exclusionary-radical-feminist-2020-6">J.K. Rowling</a>, who has drawn major criticism in the past for making remarks that have been criticized as transphobic, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/j-k-rowling-doubles-down-what-some-critics-call-transphobic-n1229351">like saying that allowing trans women to use women's bathrooms will put cis women in danger</a>."They canceled J.K. Rowling, my God.. she said gender was fact, the trans community got mad as shit, they started calling her a TERF," he said, referencing <a href="https://www.insider.com/biden-is-being-canceled-by-anti-trans-feminists-terfs-2021-1">"Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists,"</a> a group of people who believe that trans women do not count as women and are still men, among other ideas. "I'm team TERF," Chappelle added.After her tweet and Variety interview saying she would no longer work with Netflix over the comments, Moore and her show began to face backlash on Friday, as tweets criticized her calling her out for what they perceived as hypocrisy. The phrase "Dear White People" trended with over 14,000 tweets as of Friday afternoon.Critics referenced that Moore, who is white, executive produced a series about Black Americans. Many detractors appeared to ignore Moore's comments about battling transphobia and instead focused on the racial component. "So, you are telling me a white woman is the showrunner for Dear White People, a show about the struggles that black Americans face, and is boycotting a black comedian," <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebJohnson61/status/1446446577481142278">one user tweeted</a>. "Hmmm, Chappelle has a new bit."<a href="https://twitter.com/XionTheDark/status/1446490129430945794/photo/1">One user tweeted a meme</a> of a white woman putting her hand over a Black woman's mouth while saying that she would save her from white supremacy. "The show runner for 'Dear White People' is literally just this huh," the user tweeted. <a href="https://twitter.com/EthanVanSciver/status/1446504227883393026">Another Twitter user called her decision to boycott the company "peak SJW"</a> - <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-social-justice-warrior-sjw-mean">"Social Justice Warrior"</a> is a derogatory term often used by the Right to criticize people who they perceive as too sensitive or politically progressive - and reeled in over 1,300 likes.Representatives for Moore and Chappelle did not respond to requests for comment.<a href="https://www.insider.com/culture">Read more stories from Insider's Digital Culture desk. </a>

'Dear White People' trended on Twitter after its showrunner called out Dave Chappelle's 'transphobic' comments

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword> has suspended three employees for crashing an executive meeting, The Verge and Variety reported.</li><li>One of the staffers had criticized transphobic comments in <keyword id="12259168" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dave-chappelle" source="Orion">Dave Chappelle</keyword>'s new Netflix special on Twitter last week.</li></ul>Netflix has suspended three employees for attending an executive meeting they were not invited to, including a trans staffer who recently criticized the company's new Dave Chappelle standup special, "The Closer," <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/11/22720724/netflix-suspends-trans-employee-tweeted-dave-chappelle-the-closer?utm_campaign=theverge&amp;utm_content=chorus&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitterurce=twitter">The Verge</a> and <a href="https://variety.com/2021/film/news/dave-chappelle-netflix-suspends-trans-employee-1235086394/">Variety</a> reported on Monday.The trans employee, senior software engineer Terra Field, <a href="https://twitter.com/RainofTerra/status/1445914236668895236?s=20">tweeted</a> a thread on Wednesday that went viral in which she said that Chappelle "attacks the trans community, and the very validity of transness - all while trying to pit us against other marginalized groups."In a statement, Netflix said the employees were not suspended because of anything they tweeted about the special."It is absolutely untrue to say that we have suspended any employees for tweeting about this show," a Netflix spokesperson said. "Our employees are encouraged to disagree openly and we support their right to do so."Field did not return requests for an interview.During the meeting, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos took questions about how Netflix should address employees and talent being upset about Chappelle's special, according to Variety.Sarandos then sent an internal memo addressing concerns, in which he said that Netflix would not remove the special, The Verge and Variety reported."Chappelle is one of the most popular stand-up comedians today, and we have a long standing deal with him," Sarandos wrote, in part. "His last special, 'Sticks &amp; Stones,' also controversial, is our most watched, stickiest, and most award winning stand-up special to date. As with our other talent, we work hard to support their creative freedom - even though this means there will always be content on Netflix some people believe is harmful, like 'Cuties,' '365 Days,' '13 Reasons Why,' or 'My Unorthodox Life.'"He added: "Distinguishing between commentary and harm is hard, especially with stand-up comedy which exists to push boundaries. Some people find the art of stand-up to be mean-spirited but our members enjoy it, and it's an important part of our content offering."Netflix declined to comment on the memo.Other Netflix employees <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-employees-speak-out-against-transphobic-chappelle-comments-2021-10">also spoke out against the special</a> on Twitter, as did Jaclyn Moore, who is trans and is an executive producer on Netflix's "Dear White People."Moore tweeted that she would "not work with [Netflix] as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content."In the special, Chappelle said that "gender is a fact" and defended "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling - who has been criticized for anti-trans comments - by saying "Team TERF!," which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

Netflix has suspended 3 employees but says it wasn't for criticism of its Dave Chappelle special

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12259168" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dave-chappelle" source="Orion">Dave Chappelle</keyword> and <keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword> are under fire for his sixth standup special, "The Closer."</li><li>Some Netflix employees criticized the company for giving Chappelle a platform to make transphobic comments.</li><li>An executive producer on Netflix's "Dear White People" said that she is done working with the streamer.</li></ul>Dave Chappelle and Netflix are coming under fire for Chappelle's sixth standup special for the streamer, "The Closer," which debuted on Tuesday.Jaclyn Moore, who is trans and is an executive producer on Netflix's "Dear White People," <a href="https://twitter.com/JaclynPMoore/status/1445912662093729793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1445917679546679300%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2021%2F10%2Fdave-chappelle-glaad-lgbtq-trans-netflix-special-homophobia-national-black-justice-coalition-1234851038%2F8%2F">tweeted</a> that she would "not work with [Netflix] as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content."Some Netflix employees also spoke out against the company, criticizing it for giving Chappelle a platform to make transphobic comments."Gender is a fact," Chappelle said during the special. "Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth."Chappelle also supported "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling, who has been criticized for anti-trans comments, by saying "Team TERF!," which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist.One Netflix employee <a href="https://twitter.com/RainofTerra/status/1445914236668895236?s=20">tweeted</a> on Wednesday, "Yesterday we launched another Chappelle special where he attacks the trans community, and the very validity of transness - all while trying to pit us against other marginalized groups.""Promoting TERF ideology (which is what we did by giving it a platform yesterday) directly harms trans people, it is not some neutral act," she added.Another Netflix employee <a href="https://twitter.com/cronym/status/1445893208660054018?s=20">tweeted</a> on Tuesday, "I didn't expect my job to include supporting the platforming of hate speech when I woke up today, yet here we are."A Netflix spokesperson declined to comment.Chappelle has been criticized for transphobic and anti-LGBTQ+ comments in his Netflix specials before. In 2016, Chappelle landed a $60 million deal for three specials, The New York Post's <a href="https://pagesix.com/2016/11/21/dave-chappelle-will-make-60m-from-netflix-specials/">Page Six</a> reported at the time. It's unclear if he was paid more for the other specials. It's not just Netflix employees who are speaking out against Chappelle and Netflix. "Dave Chappelle's brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities," GLAAD <a href="https://twitter.com/glaad/status/1445870767548231685">tweeted</a> on Wednesday. "Negative reviews and viewers loudly condemning his latest special is a message to the industry that audiences don't support platforming anti-LGBTQ diatribes. We agree."

Netflix employees speak out against Dave Chappelle's new special in which he makes transphobic comments

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An unnamed <keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword> employee was fired for leaking internal data, the company said.</li><li>Netflix is under fire for supporting Dave Chappelle's comedy special, which features transphobic jokes.</li></ul>Netflix said Friday it had fired the leader of a trans resource group at the company for leaking financial data "outside the company."The now ex-employee, who did not want to share their identity for fear of online harassment, but who <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22728337/netflix-fires-organizer-trans-employee-walkout-dave-chappelle">the Verge reported</a> is "Black" and "pregnant," is accused of sending information to Bloomberg detailing the higher-than-average cost to produce <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/dave-chappelle">Dave Chappelle</a>'s latest Netflix special, "The Closer," which has been criticized for containing transphobic comments. The individual was also in charge of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trans-netflix-employees-plan-walkout-over-chappelle-special-report-2021-10">staging a walkout on October 20</a> to protest Netflix's handling of the controversial comedy special.<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflix-fires-employee-for-leaking-confidential-information-on-chappelle-special-1235032108/#recipient_hashed=d77e6e485ce478540c7433841d7b83fd3b432b9cb5589e15232fdf59d3e8fcc7">Hollywood Reporter first reported </a>the firing on Friday."We have let go of an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company," a Netflix spokesperson said to Insider on Friday. "We understand this employee may have been motivated by disappointment and hurt with Netflix, but maintaining a culture of trust and transparency is core to our company."<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-13/netflix-staff-raised-concerns-about-dave-chappelle-special-before-release">The employee told</a> Bloomberg that Netflix spent exorbitant amounts of money to produce <keyword id="12271677" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dave-chapelle" source="Orion">Dave Chapelle</keyword>'s <keyword id="12320059" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="comedy-specials" source="Orion">comedy specials</keyword>.According to the Bloomberg report, Netflix spent a whopping $24.1 million on The Closer and $23.6 million on Chappelle's 2019 special, "Sticks &amp; Stones." For comparison, Netflix spent $21.4 million to produce the cultural phenomenon "Squid Game." The internal documents also revealed that Chappelle's 2019 special had an "impact value" of $19.4 million, meaning the special cost more to produce than it created in value for the company. A Netflix spokesperson said a review of internal logs found that only one employee had accessed the information shared with Bloomberg. Critics tore into "The Closer," which debuted October 5, after the comedian made transphobic comments in the special, including "gender is a fact" and voicing support for "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, who has made anti-trans comments in the past. Multiple <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-employees-speak-out-against-transphobic-chappelle-comments-2021-10">Netflix employees took to social media condemning the special</a> and Netflix's decision to give Chappelle a platform. LGBTQ+ <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hannah-gadsby-criticizes-netflix-ceo-over-dave-chappelle-memo-2021-10">comedian Hannah Gadsby</a> criticized Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos in an Instagram post on Friday, after Sarandos referenced her in a memo defending the decision to air Chappelle's special. Jaclyn Moore, who identifies as trans and works as an executive producer on Netflix's "Dear White People," announced she would stop working with the company, which she said profits from "blatantly and dangerously transphobic content."Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-reinstated-trans-employee-suspended-protesting-dave-chappelles-comedy-special-2021-10">Netflix reinstated trans employee Terra Field and two others</a> who were suspended for attending an executive meeting uninvited to protest Chappelle's special."Our employees are encouraged to disagree openly, and we support their right to do so," a Netflix spokesperson previously told Insider.

Netflix fires the organizer of a trans employee walkout

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Comedian <keyword id="12319000" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hannah-gadsby" source="Orion">Hannah Gadsby</keyword>, who won an Emmy for a <keyword id="11892922" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword> special, lambasted the company's co-CEO.</li><li>Co-CEO <keyword id="12305369" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ted-sarandos" source="Orion">Ted Sarandos</keyword> referenced Gadsby in a memo to staff defending <keyword id="12259168" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dave-chappelle" source="Orion">Dave Chappelle</keyword>'s new special.</li></ul>Comedian Hannah Gadsby tore into Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CVCiLl9FWoB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">an Instagram post</a> on Friday, after Sarandos wrote a memo to staff, which referenced her, defending Dave Chappelle's controversial new standup special."Now I have to deal with even more of the hate and anger that Dave Chappelle's fans like to unleash on me every time Dave gets 20 million dollars to process his emotionally stunted partial word view," Gadsby wrote. "You didn't pay me nearly enough to deal with the real world consequences of the hate speech dog whistling you refuse to acknowledge, Ted."Gadsby has two standup specials on Netflix, including "Nanette," for which she won an Emmy. Sarandos defended Chappelle and Netflix's decision to release his new special, "The Closer," <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-doc-disclosure-cited-in-response-to-chappelle-defense-2021-10">in an all-staff memo this week</a> after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-employees-speak-out-against-transphobic-chappelle-comments-2021-10">employees began speaking out against the special</a>, as reported by multiple outlets including Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. The Netflix trans employee resource group is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trans-netflix-employees-plan-walkout-over-chappelle-special-report-2021-10">planning a company-wide walkout next week</a>."We are working hard to ensure marginalized communities aren't defined by a single story," Sarandos wrote in part. "So we have 'Sex Education,' 'Orange is the New Black,' 'Control Z,' Hannah Gadsby and Dave Chappelle all on Netflix. Key to this is increasing diversity on the content team itself.""The Closer" is Chappelle's sixth and perhaps final Netflix special. The comedian struck a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/comedians-netflix-paid-millions-ricky-gervais-new-special-2018-3#dave-chappelle-60-million-5">three-special deal in 2016 with Netflix worth $60 million</a>, The New York Post reported at the time, but it's unclear if he was paid more for the additional specials.In "The Closer," Chappelle makes transphobic comments and defends "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling by exclaiming "Team TERF!," which stands for trans exclusionary radical feminist, a term Rowling has referred to herself as.Gadsby isn't the first person with content on Netflix who has spoken out against the streamer over the special.Jaclyn Moore, who is trans and is an executive producer on Netflix's "Dear White People," said that she wouldn't work with the company "as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content." Below is Gadsby's full post:"Hey Ted Sarandos! Just a quick note to let you know that I would prefer if you didn't drag my name into your mess. Now I have to deal with even more of the hate and anger that Dave Chappelle's fans like to unleash on me every time Dave gets 20 million dollars to process his emotionally stunted partial word view. You didn't pay me nearly enough to deal with the real world consequences of the hate speech dog whistling you refuse to acknowledge, Ted. Fuck you and your amoral algorithm cult … I do shits with more back bone than you. That's just a joke! I definitely didn't cross a line because there isn't one."

Comedian Hannah Gadsby tore into Netflix's 'amoral algorithm cult' after its co-CEO defended releasing Chappelle's new special

<div type="image" title="Dear White People Season 4" height="2400" width="3199" msid="86262545" hostid="261"></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="11974699" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dear-white-people" source="Orion">Dear White People</keyword>" season four differs from previous seasons because it is a '90s themed <keyword id="11909346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="musical" source="Orion">musical</keyword>.</li><li>The series' creator, <keyword id="12109383" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="justin-simien" source="Orion">Justin Simien</keyword>, told Insider that he always "wanted to make a big ol' musical."</li><li>He added that the musical element was also a "perfect" metaphor for key themes in the show.</li></ul>The writer, creator, and director of "Dear White People" Justin Simien recently revealed that he made the final season of the show a musical because it was the "perfect metaphor" for how Black people exist in white spaces.The Netflix series, based on the <keyword id="12109384" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sundance-film-festival" source="Orion">Sundance Film Festival</keyword> award-winning movie made by Simien of the same name, follows the lives of Black students of a supposedly "post-racial" university called Winchester. The series is comedic and surreal, but raises many conversations about race and racism in America.After two years, the fourth and final season of "Dear White People" is arriving on Netflix September 22. However, the teaser released in August <a href="https://www.themarysue.com/netflix-dear-white-people-musical-finale-season/">surprised fans</a> because it announced that the whole season would be a musical. Characters in the show have not really burst out into song before this."We've been wanting to do this musical episode from the beginning because the show always breaks into the surreality of someone's imagination," Simien told Insider earlier this week. "Breaking out into song at this point, four seasons in, is not the strangest thing that has happened in the show."The "Dear White People" creator continued: "I'm a musical snob, so is Jaclyn [Moore, showrunner]. The first thing that a musical snob believes about a musical is there's gotta be a really integrated reason for the characters to be singing."<div type="image" title="Dear White People Season 4" height="2400" width="3600" msid="86264197" hostid="261"></div>"I just wanted to make a big ol' musical and I needed to lean into something that I passionately wanted to do for this final season and it felt appropriate."Simien explained that the musical element was also a metaphor for these Black students at the predominantly-white Winchester, which if it existed offscren could be compared to Ivy League institutions."It felt like the perfect way to distil the metaphor of having to put on a show as a person of color, of having to sort of tap dance for people, of finding a way to express what's really inside," he said. "All these things that were so typical of musicals were also typical of my Black experience at least, and the way I wanted to portray their journey this season. So that's really where it started from and the more we talked about it, the more it made sense."<div type="image" title="Dear White People Season 4" height="2402" width="3600" msid="86264201" hostid="261"></div>Logan Browning, who plays one of the lead characters Sam White, told Insider that she was "100% a fan" of the musical idea."I loved the fact that we got to do a musical season. I've always loved musicals," she admitted. "When I was in high school as a kid, I did lots of musical revues with my chorus and I was very serious about auditioning to get the parts that I wanted and I always got the parts I wanted.""Dear White People," also starring Brandon P. Bell, DeRon Horton, Marque Richardson and Ashley Blaine Featherson, returns September 22 on Netflix.

'Dear White People' creator Justin Simien says there's a deeper reason why the last season is a musical

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Antoinette Robertson says she felt "isolated" filming "<keyword id="11974699" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dear-white-people" source="Orion">Dear White People</keyword>" season four.</li><li>Her character, Coco, spends most of the season in a reality show separate from the other main characters.</li><li>Robertson said she "understood" how Coco felt because she also was separated from her fellow castmates.</li></ul>"Dear White People" star Antoinette Robertson told Insider that she felt "isolated" whilst filming the last season of the show because most of her scenes were separate from the main cast.The Netflix series, based on a Sundance Film Festival award-winning movie made by Simien of the same name, follows the lives of Black students of a supposedly "post-racial" university called Winchester. In the series, Robertson plays Colandrea "Coco" Conners, a quick-witted student from Chicago who settles in with the rich white community of Winchester so she can socially advance.In season four, Coco takes part in a reality show called "Big House" which means she is separated from the other students of Winchester as she competes to become the first black person to win the show."I felt really isolated," Robertson said to Insider about filming season four. "I could really understand Coco feeling really isolated in 'Big House' because I was shooting all of my scenes and I didn't have all my castmates around me. It's like having an internship senior year and not having any of your friends so that really sucks."<div type="image" title="Dear White People Season 4" height="2397" width="3197" msid="86484957" hostid="261"></div>She continued: "But I understood the vision for it. I understood the reason Coco was in 'Big House.' I also understand the reality TV show space women of color, black women specifically, rarely ever win. So having those conversations is very true. I hear that this season of the show it's marked after [Big Brother] is different. That's good to hear. I'm grateful I got to experience all these different things. I wish I had more scenes in Armstrong-Parker and I got to hang out with everyone and do one more big group scene but c'est la vie."In the past, "Dear White People" has featured parodies of popular TV series such as "Scandal" and "The Handmaid's Tale" as TV shows the characters watch within the show. Season four's TV parody is "<keyword id="12048092" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="big-brother" source="Orion">Big Brother</keyword>" and the reality TV genre in general.Jaclyn Moore, one of the showrunners of "Dear White People" told Insider that they chose this parody for the final season because reality shows are "a distillation of the American experience."She explained: "We're not going to solve racism but if the black contestants on 'Big Brother' do well or we're not going to solve transphobia but if the trans people on 'The Amazing Race' get far... There's like a catharsis that felt slightly different to how the other shows within shows worked on previous years."<div type="image" title="Dear White People Season 4" height="2400" width="3199" msid="86484961" hostid="261"></div>This year's season "Big Brother" <a href="https://www.insider.com/big-brother-host-julie-chen-says-cookout-alliance-isnt-racist-2021-9">will break history</a> as one of its remaining contestants will be the first black contestant <a href="https://www.goldderby.com/gallery/big-brother-winners-complete-list/big-brother-19-josh-martinez-bully/">to ever win the show</a>.<keyword id="12109383" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="justin-simien" source="Orion">Justin Simien</keyword>, the creator of "Dear White People" also told Insider that "Big House" fulfills one of the storylines from the original movie that the series is based on. In that movie, Coco (played by Teyonah Parris) competes with Sam (Tessa Thompson) for the attention of a reality TV producer."Dear White People" season four arrives on Netflix on September 22. This season differs from previous ones because the showrunners decided to add <a href="https://www.insider.com/dear-white-people-creator-justin-simien-reason-season-4-musical-2021-9">a musical element to it.</a>

'Dear White People' star Antoinette Robertson says she felt 'isolated' filming season 4 like her character on the show

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6359726" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="colorado">Colorado</keyword> lawmakers are considering new guns laws after a shooter killed 10 at a Boulder supermarket.</li><li>According to the <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/22/boulder-shooting-colorado-king-soopers-analysis-pain/">Denver Post</a>, Colorado had the 5th highest rate of mass shootings per capita. </li><li>Tragedy in the state has mostly been met with only incremental legislative action on guns.</li></ul>In 1993, a gunman <a href="https://www.insider.com/boulder-colorado-police-department-shooting-reported-grocery-store-2021-3">killed</a> four employees at a Chuck E. Cheese in Aurora, Colorado. Six years later, in 1999, two teenagers at <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-columbine-changed-american-schools-forever-2019-4">Columbine High School</a> killed 12 students, a teacher, and injured 20 more people before killing themselves. In 2012, during a crowded screening of Batman in an Aurora movie theater, a man shot <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/us/shooting-at-colorado-theater-showing-batman-movie.html">12 people</a> dead and wounded 58 others. Each of these shootings renewed debates about <a href="https://www.insider.com/witness-to-colorado-shooting-says-incident-calls-for-gun-control-2021-3">gun control</a>, but anti-gun advocates generally failed to push through the tough laws they said were needed.On Monday afternoon, a man police have identified as <a href="https://www.insider.com/police-identified-21-year-old-as-the-boulder-mass-shooter-2021-3">Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa</a>, 21, opened fire at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, <a href="https://www.insider.com/victims-boulder-colorado-grocery-store-shooting-identified-2021-3">killing 10 people</a>. The shooting came less than a week after a different man killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women, at three Atlanta-area spas. Condemning the shootings, President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to pass legislation tightening gun control laws by expanding background checks for gun purchases and banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that were similar to what was used in Boulder. It was a familiar refrain, as was the push-back from Republicans in Congress <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/gun-control-senate-republicans-boulder-shooting">who said</a> that limiting guns would infringe on people's Second Amendment Rights and make everyone less safe. "In my judgment, we do not need more gun control," Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, a Republican, said on Fox <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>. "We need more idiot control." The calls were echoed in Colorado, which saw a <a href="https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/colorado-2020-gun-sales-thefts-rise/73-ae908a96-63be-4f3a-bd09-20d775ef14a9">46 percent increase</a> in gun sales last year as it conducted more than 500,000 background checks, most of which were approved."With the sheer number of guns, our laws are relatively weak," Eileen McCarran, president of Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Action, a gun violence prevention organization, told Insider. "But one of the things we would say is, think how much worse it would be if we hadn't passed these." According to a<a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/22/boulder-shooting-colorado-king-soopers-analysis-pain/"> 2019 analysis</a> by the Denver Post, Colorado had more mass shootings per capita than all except four states. Annette Moore, the co-founder of Blue Rising, a PAC focused on gun safety laws, told Insider that this is partly because promises made in the wake of mass shootings are rarely kept. "I feel like we do go through phases of, when a mass shooting happens, more attention is focused on gun safety, and there's hope we can make big progress. And it somehow fades," she said. "I hope this was the last straw and we can make more strides in Colorado."<div type="image" title="Boulder mourner " height="2649" width="3973" msid="81677960" hostid="261"></div>Advocates say that some of the restrictions put in place over the last two decades might have limited the number of dead, but that putting an end to mass shootings in Colorado would require actions that guarantee guns do not end up in the wrong hands.Alissa purchased a Ruger AR-556 semiautomatic pistol on March 16, six days before the shooting, an affidavit by Boulder police showed. Alissa's sister-in-law told authorities that <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-shooting-suspect/colorado-suspects-family-saw-him-fiddling-with-gun-days-before-shooting-court-documents-idUSKBN2BF2WW">two days prior</a> to the shooting, his family took the gun away from him because they were upset he was playing with it in the house. Ten days before the shooting, a Colorado judge struck down Boulder's ban on assault weapons, which had been enacted in the aftermath of the shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Because there's no state-wide ban on assault weapons, the judge ruled that Boulder violated was not permitted to create its own.In the aftermath of the shooting, the state senator who represents Boulder said he was working on a bill to allow cities to enact gun laws that extend beyond what the state allows, the Denver Post <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/23/boulder-shooting-fenberg-legislature-king-soopers/">reported</a>. The paper noted that gun control bills tend to divide the Democrat-controlled legislature along party lines. "I didn't know how relevant and timely it was until yesterday," state Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg, of Boulder, was quoted as saying, "It's not like if the city of Boulder had had that ban in affect, that this wouldn't have happened. But it doesn't mean it's not a relevant conversation and tool that communities should have."<h3>"INCREMENTAL CHANGE"</h3>The guns used at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/columbine-shooters-motives-2018-2">Columbine High School</a>, located about 44 miles from Boulder in Littleton, were bought from private sellers at gun shows. In its aftermath, Colorado residents in 2000 approved a referendum to close a gun show loophole that allowed people to buy weapons at gun shows without having to pass a background check.In Aurora, about 41 miles from Boulder, the movie theater shooting put a spotlight on high-capacity magazines, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-jul-22-la-na-nn-theater-shooting-magazine-20120722-story.html">which enabled</a> the shooter to fire as many 60 shots per minute. In the aftermath of that attack, in 2013, Colorado lawmakers passed five more bills, including universal background checks, limiting the capacity of magazines to 15 rounds, and mandating that individuals convicted domestic violence give up their firearms. <div type="image" title="Boulder shoes" height="4055" width="2831" msid="81678339" hostid="261"></div>In 2019, the 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, Colorado joined a handful of other states by passing a "red flag law" that gave courts the authority to remove guns from people who posed a threat of violence to themselves or others. In its <a href="https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/colorados-red-flag-gun-control-law-by-the-numbers-2020/73-787ac25f-98a9-4073-b9fe-5cef8b75d41b">first year,</a> 111 cases were filed. Proponents of strict gun limits argue there's a lot more that Colorado could do to prevent future shootings. Unlike 10 states and the District of Columbia, Colorado does not mandate that a person wait a specific number of days - also known as a waiting period - between purchasing a firearm and taking it home. Advocates for such bills say they allow more time for authorities to conduct background checks and for the purchaser to cool off in instances in which he or she may be feeling angry or suicidal. Colorado Ceasefire has been working on a bill that would require a person to wait 5 days before acquiring a gun, something the group says is among its legislative priorities"We've been making incremental change in Colorado but there's still work to do," said Moore of Blue Rising. Federal action, which would block people from driving over state lines to purchase firearms in jurisdictions with weaker laws, is also vital, advocates say. Since Columbine, anti-shooting advocates have pushed for such action, but there has been little movement. They also want to see a Clinton-era federal ban on assault weapons, which expired in 2004 and was not renewed, put back in place. Contradicting the belief that gun control is a purely partisan issue, perhaps the most meaningful reform of the last decade came when the Trump administration <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706905757/bump-stock-ban-takes-effect-as-gun-rights-groups-ask-supreme-court-for-delay">banned bump stocks</a>, a part that can be added to guns to make them fire quicker, in 2019. At the federal level there really hasn't been any gun policy changes, said Jaclyn Schildkraut, the author of Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond: Lessons From Tragedy. "We need not have much more proactive conversations, not reactive."<div type="image" title="Boulder people walk out " height="2666" width="3999" msid="81677962" hostid="261"></div>After nearly every mass shooting, the satirical site The Onion reposts a headline that says, "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens." And yet, for all the logjam in the halls of Congress and in most state legislatures, there is some indication that the general public supports laws to enhance gun safety.Following the Aurora movie theater shooting, a poll by Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2012/07/30/views-on-gun-laws-unchanged-after-aurora-shooting/">found</a> that similar to prior mass shootings, public opinion on gun control laws was unchanged. Recently, the numbers show otherwise. A<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/16/share-of-americans-who-favor-stricter-gun-laws-has-increased-since-2017/"> 2019 poll </a>showed that 60% of Americans said gun laws should be stricter, compared to 47% in 2012. Groups like Everytown for Gun Safety, which was born out of the massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school a few months after the Aurora movie theater killings, has been <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=Everytown+for+Gun+Safety&amp;state%5Bid%5D=&amp;ntee%5Bid%5D=&amp;c_code%5Bid%5D=;c_code%5Bid%5D=">raking in </a>donations. Meanwhile, the gun rights movement has floundered. The once powerful National Rifle Association has declared bankruptcy and is embroiled in allegations of fraud and corruption."Tragedies can sometimes change people. You keep hoping is this is the one," McCarran said. "Is this the issue that will finally change people's hearts?"

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