Dave Chapelle, the comedian who defies the last limit of humor: the LGTBIQ + community, "the people of the alphabet"

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In

, his latest monologue for Netflix,

has cruel jokes for everyone: the Chinese and the Jews, the pedophiles, and, of course, the American white majority, which for two decades have been the main objective of derision on the part of the comedian considered - with increasing consensus - as the best of all time.

But as happened in his previous special program,

(2019), Chappelle

- which he had then, with a bad shadow, nicknamed "the people of the alphabet" - , which is today the most dangerous red line that circumscribes the action of a humorist, the limit that nobody dares to cross, since there is no greater anathema than to be accused, in this order, of transphobic, misogynist and homophobic.

Anyone in their right mind would leave it there, but Chappelle - surely because his status allows him to cross fire without burning himself - has found a vein there that serves to reinforce the idea that, in these liquid times,

cause

. "You think I hate gays," he says in The Closer, "but actually I'm jealous. Black people look at the gay community and say, fuck it! This movement is doing well. Sometimes I think so. slaves had smeared themselves with body oil and wore shorts we would have been free 100 years earlier. "

From here, Chappelle unleashes a string of jokes that hit one after another in the center of the target of political correctness.

, exposes the case of a brawl in a club with a homosexual man with whom he almost came to blows before he decided to call the police - "is one of the I have big problems with this community; gays are a minority until they need to be white again "- and then it drifts the discourse towards lesbians and trans people, recklessly entering the minefield.

Of course, the reactions since early October, when

was released

, have been loud.

From networks such as Twitter, the boycott of Chappelle has been promoted for his transphobic and misogynistic speech.

But this din does not repair the bottom line of the matter that the comic tries to convey: in times of intersectional discourse - that is, there is

-, the blacks are back in the depths.

And the LGTBIQ + community has taken control of the victimizing discourse.

Protests at Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles AP

The criticism has not hurt Chappelle. As he says, "Twitter is not a real site", and in the same way it did in 2005, when he left the television space that launched him to fame,

, on Comedy Central - he resigned from a third season. for which he was offered $ 50 million

- now he has returned to the low profile he kept for more than seven years, off the scene, limiting himself to doing monologues in small theaters . When the storm passes, he will return again, surely, as a living myth.

Meanwhile, where the controversy has been noticed has been in the heart of Netflix. Several workers - the majority transgender - went on strike a few days ago to protest the violence of the platform towards the LGTBIQ minority, arguing that specials such as Chappelle's promote hate speech, and also for the dismissal of an employee - also transque leaked to the press the figures for the comedian's contract, just over 60 million for the last three specials. Netflix will weather the storm, but it will be necessary to see at what cost: Ted Sarandos, the president of the company, has reinstated the fired worker and has apologized to the staff through an internal statement in which he admitted to having mismanaged the emotional impact of the Chappelle content.

Which

: Netflix, which creates most of its content by raising the flag of diversity, also profits by making fun of that same diversity, and being able to withdraw the Chappelle's monologues don't because that's where the money is too. Critics have destroyed

accusing it of bad taste and transphobia, but on the Rotten Tomatoes website it has absolute support from the base audience, who approve the content with a 96% rating.

So the comedian has gotten away with it.

His objective was to denounce the dirty game that the trans community has had with its people - the comedians, who are not allowed to make according to what jokes for fear of cancellation, and also that of the blacks, once again the forgotten minority -, and claim a clean sweep to start over.

The end of his monologue conveys this idea: let's treat each other as people and not as archetypes, we can make humor especially without having thin skin and laugh together.

And add an oath:

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