Reaction & Commentary
Hate victim hero shame violence survivor phobic and white supremacy comedian hannah gadsby characterized dave chappelle’s controversial netflix special as hate speech dog whistling well dog whistle refers to when someone puts things in code because they’re afraid to come out and say what they really think that’s what you get from dave chappelle
He’s afraid to say what he really thinks And it’s not hate speech just because you disagree with it nor is it phobic phobic comes from the greek word for something one fears irrationally like spiders or germs but now is used as a suffix for anything you just don’t like i’ve been called commitment phobic no i
I don’t fear commitment i just don’t want it [Applause] no other people do great i don’t call them single phobic i don’t like bowling i’m not bowling phobic and if i talk about how wrong i think it is to force women to wear a beekeeper suit all day
That’s not being islamophobic i just don’t like it and i bet they don’t either i went as a ghost for halloween once i lasted about 20 minutes also in the category of we just don’t like it so we’re pretending it’s something else is the word violence
Last year there was a staff mutiny at the cbs drama all rise when some of the writers i’m sorry i meant victims took issue with a scene where two women are in an elevator and a naked man gets on and they just continue talking calmly and if you think that’s offensive you
Should see how the guy pushed the button [Applause] but the writers on this show found the scene objectionable and sent off an email saying two women would not calmly continue a conversation with a naked white guy running into the elevator that is violence no it’s not violence is when it hurts it usually
Involves leaving a mark of some kind of course innumerable things can lead to violence but i’m sorry you can’t take that word and use it for stuff that’s just scary to you or just verbal which is something i literally learned in kindergarten sticks and stones may break my bones but
If you don’t know how that one ends you need to repeat kindergarten social justice warriors who are fond of governing by hashtag like to say silence is violence and we know that because it rhymes the words victim and survivor have traveled a long way from their original usage the
Baby from the nirvana album says he’s a victim he’s suing nirvana for lifelong damages i never thought i’d have to say this to a baby but stop being such a baby you’re not a victim there’s no reason you can’t have a normal happy life just because people look at you and think
Baby penis it didn’t hurt trump in 2010 the new york times used the term white supremacist on 75 occasions last year over 700 times now some of that to be sure is because trump came along and emboldened the faction of this country that is truly white supremist it is of
Course still a real thing but it shouldn’t apply to something like as more than a few have suggested getting rid of the s.a.t test now if we find the s.a.t test is slanted in such a way as to stack the deck in favor of caucasians if there are questions like
Biff and chip are selling a yacht traveling at 12 knots to an ed sheeran concert on catalina if catalina is 26 miles away how many white claws should they bring yes then maybe but of course the s.a.t doesn’t have questions like that so it becomes a kind of ludicrous exaggeration that makes
Lovers of common sense roll their eyes and then vote for trump now are there snowflakes on the right of course there’s no whinier little than trump himself but this but this kind of stuff does tend to stick to the left a lot more have you ever heard a parent call their child
Their hero what party are they probably in my kid is my hero why he’s six did he pull something out of a burning building my hero look at the way he shares his ritalin you do realize how stupid it sounds to imply you want to grow up to be your kid
During the pandemic everyone was a hero now for sure frontline medical workers really were and are but then it spread to civil servants and then anyone who just went to work postal employees amazon stalkers one day i found myself saying to the guy collecting carts at ralph’s thank you for your service [Applause]
And then there’s shaming that definition has been rewritten to mean anything that suggests i’m not 100 perfect i’m not fat shaming when i call on the idea that a person can be healthy at any size we’re so through the looking glass on this that weight watchers change their name to ww
The weight loss people can’t mention weight loss adele was shamed for losing weight like she was a traitor to what unhealthiness when i have reported the statistic that 78 of the people who died or were hospitalized with covert were overweight that’s not fat shaming that’s fat splaining it’s what
It’s what the cdc should be doing and this is the essence of why word inflation is a problem you can try to change reality by changing the words but you can’t it just stops you from dealing with it one of the bad guys in 1984 says the whole aim of newspeak is
To narrow the range of thought yes it’s orwellian and you know what they say orwell never ends well you
