Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.

“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).

It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.

That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.

He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.

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    There’s a very politically incorrect comedian I follow. There’s one key difference however: he isn’t an asshole.

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      And why is Chapelle an asshole? The transgender person above is crying because everything is either black or white and make everything about them, and this constant woke persecution is just exhausting. But I guess that is the norm with Lemmy, everything that you say that is not left wing is immediatly downvoted, lmao

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        Dave Chapelle makes transphobic jokes and says he loves punching down

        Trans person reacts to that

        You: “them transgenders make everything about themselves”

        Alternatively, you could have just also said: “Why don’t you let us joke about you being disgusting freaks in peace?”, but I doubt you have the self-awareness.

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          You can be a chapelle fan or you can be a trans ally. You cant be both (gaslighting not accepted).

          This is what I meant, if you like Dave Chapelle is because you are transphobic evil, no inbetween, everything is black or white.

          But here we are, once again. Suddenly I find transgender people “disgusting freaks”.