Netflix reaffirms its support for ChappelleĪt Netflix, three people asking for the show to be withdrawn were briefly suspended, notably for breaking into a videoconference meeting of executives to which they should not have access. “Netflix rules say that content ‘inciting violence or hatred’ is not allowed on the platform, but we all know that is exactly what anti-LGBTQ content does.”, valued Glaad, an NGO specializing in monitoring media treatment of these issues. “To maintain transphobia is to maintain violence”, accused David Johns, the director of the National Black Justice Coalition, denouncing the broadcast of the show by Netflix. These rare sightings in a show “Covered with stupidity”, as the author Roxane Gay writes in a column published by the New York Times, have not reduced the anger of LGBTQ + rights groups.
Our investigation: Article reserved for our subscribers Non-binary, “gender fluid”, trans… teens “neither quite girls nor quite boys” It is precisely the disparity that I wish to discuss ”, he exposes from the introduction of the show. “In our country, you can shoot a black man and kill him, but you had better not offend a gay person. “Special”, Sticks & Stones : comparison of the claims of designated minorities – and success in society’s recognition of their discrimination. There is a motif already used by Dave Chappelle in his previous one. “Gays are a minority until the moment when they need to become white again”, he also launches, recounting his altercation with a homosexual man in a bar in Texas. All strewn with clichés on “communities” (black, white, gay, transgender…) often ridiculed and necessarily uniform. He denies, in a sketch, having hit, at a party, a lesbian woman because of her homosexuality – “I didn’t even know it was a woman!” ” – before recounting at length, in another, his friendship with a transgender person, who appreciated his humor and whose suicide after numerous discriminations touched him a lot. No content “inciting violence or hatred” allowed The entire show turns like this, alternating brutal jokes and reminders of his sincere tolerance. “If you listen to what I say, my problem has always been white people”, does he assume in The Closer, under the laughter of his audience, just after having defended himself to have ever had “A problem with transgender people”. Read also : Article reserved for our subscribers Eddie Murphy, Rise and Fall of a Hollywood Princeįor twenty-five years, Dave Chappelle has built his career on a sarcastic and often corrosive humor around relations between whites and blacks in the United States. Before its broadcast, revealed the Bloomberg press agency, several employees communicated to Netflix management their concerns about the content of the show: in question, a speech often deemed transphobic and homophobic, capable of provoking and accentuating discrimination against the LGBTQ + community. Internally, The Closer has never been unanimous. Over ten million views had been counted by Netflix ten days after the release of the program, approved at 95% by the vote of Internet users on the site aggregating reviews Rotten Tomatoes.
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The American group spent 24.1 million dollars (20.7 million euros) to exclusively produce the seventy-two-minute one-man-show, the last episode in a series of six “Specials” played by Dave Chappelle since 2017. CHARLES SYKES / INVISION / APįor Netflix, the situation is unprecedented: several dozen employees called on their colleagues to go on strike, Wednesday, October 20, to demand the end of the broadcasting of the show by American comedian Dave Chappelle, entitled The Closer and uploaded to the streaming platform earlier this month. Dave Chappelle in New York City, January 28, 2018.