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13352505, thankfully there is a word called 'precedence'
Posted by EAS, Thu Oct-17-19 09:59 PM
>Last I checked, he's getting paid millions to say whatever he
>wants on a giant corporate platform.
>
>When people on Twitter or Vice or wherever say, "Hey, what
>Dave Chappelle said is shitty and hurtful," that's not
>remotely censorship. That's criticism. They aren't suppressing
>him, because they're in no position to do so. They're trying
>to make people realize that a multi-millionaire comedian isn't
>necessarily right by virtue of his station as a success.

And the backlash that he and those like him are receiving is setting precedence where speaking on a certain group if totally off limits. And when it it comes to comedy, the expansion of limitations is very unsettling.