If you look at any newsfeed these days you will see that the news world has latched on to the Dave Chappelle "Closer" controversy like flies to poo poo. They keep talking about how Dave is facing backlash and how the internet is cancelling him but that is just one massive pack of lies. There is no meaningful movement to silence Dave Chappelle: It is just a tiny group of very loud people. A vast majority of people are in a spectrum of indifferent to on Dave's side.
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This is just what the media does. The find a very small group of loud people and then take selective photos to make the "movement" appear bigger than it is. You may recall that the same media would do this whenever a politician that they prefer has a rally with less-than-impressive attendance numbers. Then they just lie about the numbers and use camera tricks.
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The fact of the matter is that the staged Netflix walkout and various protests that took place consisted of a very small number of people and the media is just attempting to do what they always do.... that is, stir the pot and make this all a much bigger deal than it really is. The media is the enemy and thankfully I believe that most people are aware of the fact that if the media tells them almost anything, there is a good chance that it is a lie.
In the meantime, Dave Chappelle continues to do shows with huge numbers and he quipped at a recent one at the Smoothie King Center
“In the middle of me being cancelled, we broke the attendance record"
He's referring to the fact that this arena has never held an event with this many people in attendance before. Does this sound to you like someone who is in the middle of being cancelled?
The media did the same thing with J.K. Rowling. They claimed that the best-selling author and billionaire was now cancelled because of comments she made about gender. Sure thing guys... if J.K. was to spit out another book you can be guaranteed that it would skyrocket to the top of the sales charts immediately. This is not someone that is cancelled.
They media does this with anyone that goes against their very bizarre world-view. Personally, I don't see how Dave's comments about the transgender community can be seen as offensive. I think that this group of people are simply looking for reasons to get more attention or maybe they just love rallies.
The fact of the matter is that if Dave Chappelle goes away, it will be because he wants to go away. He did this before and it wouldn't surprise me if he does it again just to get away from the constant badgering by the media. It's not like he needs any more money. This is a guy that walked away from a $50 million one-year contract. Suffice to say, he isn't at all concerned about his financial future.
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laughing all the way to the bank!
If anything, the only thing that Dave needs to be concerned about right now is that there are probably some political nutjobs out there that want to kill him for his comments - which were hilarious by the way and continue to be. Therefore Dave has had to step up his security detail at events.... which are all sold out by the way.
The media is dragging this out much more than is necessary and it really isn't an issue to anyone outside of a couple hundred mostly Californian nutjobs.
The media uses “movements” like companies use “product lines.” And since they need a constant stream of product lines to sell...they do what every other business does…
Media and other companies are not the only institutions that use this type or similar models. Governments, nonprofits, religion, financial advisors and stockbrokers, etc…
That said, they're should be stricter standards for public information over a certain size...so the big boys, Fox, NBC, ABC, etc...print media like the New York Times...some kind of fact based media standard. I'm not even sure what that would look like.
But as a consumer, it's best to stay away from mass media. The internet affords us much better content in specific areas of Interest. Wikipedia is probably a good place to start. There are some good non-partisan think-tanks out there that focus on specific areas. And they are much more thorough than a 30-second blurp on CNN. And less emotional too. So you get more fact than fiction.
If people are watching or reading something that gets their blood boiling, and is very one-sided, then they’re probably consuming something with a lot more drama than fact. And if that's what they’re looking for, by all means, keep eating it up.
But if people want fact, they're going to have to stick with the long dry content full of uncertainty and exceptions...because that is what real life usually is.
Always like reading your work @dumb-news.
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Absolutely agree. I don't understand how at least one of the failing networks would just continue to run in the same direction they have been going despite the fact that it isn't working anymore. I think this would have been a fantastic time for somebody to emerge as a real news source that isn't biased.
In regards to Chappelle it is just so predictable and it has been divided down party lines again as far as media opinion on this is concerned. The good news for Dave is that he probably doesn't care and doesn't need any of those guys anyway.
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What did PT Barnum say, "There's no such thing as bad publicity." And that country song, "Celebrity" by Brad Paisley..."the more they run my name down the more my price goes up." So thank you "Media." :)
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Well i think Barnum lived in a different time. Today in the age of the perpetually offended, cancel culture is real but Chappelle is just too big. Plus, he doesn't really want to do what he is doing anyway and could walk away any time and be just fine with it. The woke mob ruins everything they touch. Thankfully, Dave is kind of untouchable.
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Even though I think cancel culture is a bunch of misguided self-aggrandizing rubes looking for a problem to fill a solution...I don't think Americans have changed much over the last couple centuries...there was probably always “an offended” culture.
The only difference now maybe is we're seeing more of it...the late 1960s and early 1970s we saw a lot of it as well. Political movements in the US have always been messy. And movements are a sort of metastasizing mass also, the original message may have been sound, but it usually grows into some kind of incoherent babbling monstrosity as time passes.
And the US system hasn't been working tremendously well for more and more folks over the past few decades; offshoring jobs, less 'trade' jobs like manufacturing, failing infrastructure, rising debt, partisanship, no clear vision, growing wealth inequality, great power competition, etc…
Cancel culture is probably a manifestation of all of those things...that's why I think they're misguided.
They're legitimately pissed...but they’re pissed about the wrong thing. Cancel culture thinks it's something to do with individualism or identity or social inequality...it's not, it's about higher debt, wealth inequality and economic uncertainty. In other words, America isn't racist, its broke!
Cancel culture is kind of like a bully beating up a kid at school...not because he doesn't like the kid, but rather he's pissed about his shitty home life and he takes it out on someone who has nothing to do with it...plus, the kid is a much easier target for the bully...rather than addressing it with his own parents.
And the United States has also promoted a culture of normalizing higher debt to income ratios. Americans are more accustomed to thinking that debt equates to wealth. Student, auto, home, and consumer debt are consuming the balance sheets of a growing number of households...which is a huge contributor to wealth inequality.
For lack of a better way of saying it, we are breeding fiscal complacency. Or even better, we are becoming spoiled little brats with money. And growing more accustomed to getting something for nothing. We build less and we want more.
Once we start to address our debt and wealth issue, cancel culture and other populist movements will have less of a leg to stand on, because people will be happier.
That's my take on it anyway.
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wonderful response. Love it!
Yes, this is correct. I saw the other day that not that long ago Rand Paul went out on Halloween as the national debt and it was meant to be scary because it was 10 trillion dollars. Oh how far we have come since then!
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