Do you think dave chapel cares how funny he is any more? I don't think so. He's really sort of got this idea that, you know, social justice is more like a rat race in the different groups. That doesn't account for people who fit into multiple groups at the same time. We blacks, we look at the gate communi, we go, god damn it. Look how well that movement is going. And we've been trapped in this predicanment for hundreds of years. How the fok are you making that kind of progress? Help? But feel like if slaves had baby oil and booty shots, we might have been free a hundred years sooner
Vox's Aja Romano explains how Dave Chappelle's latest standup special led to a reckoning at Netflix. Vulture's Craig Jenkins assesses whether there's anything funny in it.
Today’s show was produced by Amina Al-Sadi with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Cristian Ayala, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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