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13351853, This is well said, too. I agree.
Posted by Brew, Mon Oct-14-19 12:34 PM
>RE: exactly. Her suicide is not his fault. However, words have power.
>What Dave and other mainstream comics fail to acknowledge is
>when they traffic in ridiculing vulnerable people for laughs,
>there can be ripple effects that will never touch those
>comics, but have dangerous and life-threatening potential
>consequence for others
>
>to everyone that thought that shit was hilarious...are you in
>any potential danger from the collective attitude/disdain for
>LGBTQ folk?
>
>if the answer is no, you have no right to complain about the
>rightful critique of his highly-visible special.
>
>And whether or not she enjoyed his special is
>irrelevant...clearly she was suffering from the very thing he
>was so gleefully making fun of.
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