{"id":73965,"date":"2021-10-11T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=73965"},"modified":"2021-10-11T02:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:32:49","slug":"chappelle-goes-there-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/10\/11\/chappelle-goes-there-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Chappelle Goes There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dave Chappelle <\/strong>has stepped in it once again.&nbsp; In his latest special, <strong><em>The Closer<\/em><\/strong>, he brought up the North Carolina law limiting use of public restrooms to the gender listed on one\u2019s birth certificate.&nbsp; When some people in the audience applauded, he said, \u201cNo, no, no, no \u2013 no, that\u2019s not a good law.&nbsp; That\u2019s a mean law.&nbsp; No American should have to present a birth certificate to take a shit at Walmart in Greensboro, North Carolina!\u201d&nbsp; He then went into a lengthy discussion regarding his history with the trans community \u2013 and what a history it is.&nbsp; <em>GLAAD <\/em>said, \u201cChappelle\u2019s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.\u201d&nbsp; And they\u2019re right \u2013 kinda.&nbsp; You know which group is typically Chappelle\u2019s biggest target?&nbsp; Black people.&nbsp; Talk about a marginalized community!&nbsp; Chappelle says <em>The Closer<\/em> is his last word on the trans subject.&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s over\u2026I am not telling another joke about you until we are both sure that we are laughing together.\u201d&nbsp; Equality isn\u2019t avoiding jokes about certain people; it\u2019s treating all people the same.&nbsp; And Chappelle does that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Chappelle has stepped in it once again.&nbsp; In his latest special, The Closer, he brought up the North Carolina law limiting use of public restrooms to the gender listed on one\u2019s birth certificate.&nbsp; When some people in the audience applauded, he said, \u201cNo, no, no, no \u2013 no, that\u2019s not a good law.&nbsp; That\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73971,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73965\/revisions\/73971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}