>>If Dave singled out Trans and only made jokes about them
>you
>>could say he was punching down but he's going in on
>>everybody.
>
>Then you don't understand what punching down means. He punched
>up at white people and other power structures AND down at
>Queer folk etc in that special. It does not make the punching
>down ok. Not even close.


Some Queer folk are part of the power structure and some are white so it's not really punching down.

>>
>>The same with his show, if the white people laughed at every
>>sketch as hard as they did at the ones that made Dave
>>uncomfortable, then you could say Dave was wrong and he is
>>hypocritical, but since that probably didn't happen.
>
>ok i'm sorry but i did not understand your point here.. imma
>need you to rephrase it a bit
>
>d


Ok you said

"he was smart enough to pick up that all his sketches about Niggas let white people laugh just a bit too hard for his comfort...he understood the inherent danger in that. so for him to ignore that now."

I'm saying I don't believe Dave walking away from his show because whites laughed too hard at those sketches, is the same as Dave making jokes about Trans.

I believe that's why comedians have problem with this kind of criticism, they feel like they can't say anything.