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No matter what you actually say, if it covers certain topics, someone is gonna swing in on a rope and say/type something saying you should've have said what you said. At this point, I see a lot of it as bad faith/performative complaining. Some of it might be fair but even then, the 'oh no!!!' of it all is usually overblown and people trying to get clicks.
Hopefully NBC keeps it moving. SNL is a sketch comedy show that makes fun of stuff and people of various ilk, usually in mildly clever ways, not usually in overtly 'mean-spirited' ways. And really, no one there is actually 'in charge' of anything. I wish these websites and twittery folks would be more 'up in arms' and/or 'in the weeds' on how a Hershel Walker type could fetch anywhere near roughly half of the votes for any kind of 'real elected office position' from any subset of human beings in the US.
>link:
>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/snl-dave-chappelle-controversy-antisemitism-1235261137/?ref=upstract.com
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>‘SNL’ Slammed for Dave Chappelle Monologue:
>“Popularizing Anti-Semitism”
>The Anti-Defamation League called out the NBC late-night show
>after Chappelle's comments about the Jewish community.
>
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>BY JAMES HIBBERD
>
>
>NOVEMBER 13, 2022 7:15PM
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>Dave Chappelle was on TV again.
>
>This time, the divisive comic spent the bulk of an extended
>monologue on Saturday Night Live giving his thoughts on Kanye
>“Ye” West’s rants about the Jewish community.
>
>On Sunday, the Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt
>criticized the NBC program, accusing the late-night staple of
>“popularizing anti-Semitism.”
>
>“We shouldn’t expect @DaveChappelle to serve as
>society’s moral compass, but disturbing to see @nbcsnl not
>just normalize but popularize #antisemitism,” he wrote on
>Twitter. “Why are Jewish sensitivities denied or diminished
>at almost every turn? Why does our trauma trigger applause?
>
>The Jerusalem Post tweeted: “The American comedian Dave
>Chappelle said during his SNL monologue that he ‘denounces
>antisemitism in all its forms’…before promptly engaging in
>antisemitic tropes.”
>
>While Time Out New York theater editor and critic Adam Feldman
>tweeted: “That Dave Chappelle SNL monologue probably did
>more to normalize anti-Semitism than anything Kanye said.
>Everyone knows Kanye is nuts. Chappelle posits himself as a
>teller of difficult truths. It’s worse.”
>
>Yet Tangle News founder Isaac Saul tweeted: “Let me be the
>first Jew to say: Dave Chappelle’s SNL open last night was
>hilarious, timely, honest, and a reminder that he still
>understands this country better than a lot of people whose
>whole job is to understand the country. It’s okay to
>acknowledge there are a lot of Jews in media and Hollywood.
>And like Dave said, you can simultaneously note that it’s
>very stupid to think this means they are in some cabal
>controlling the world.”
>
>Chappelle’s 15-minute monologue has racked up 3.2 million
>views in less than 24 hours on YouTube – more than any other
>SNL video since last May. It included comments such as
>Chappelle saying Ye broke “the show business rules of
>perception…if they’re Black, then it’s a gang. If
>they’re Italian, it’s a mob. But if they’re Jewish,
>it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it.”
>(For full context, the monologue is below.)
>
>He added: “I’ve been to Hollywood…this is what I saw:
>It’s a lot of Jews. Like, a lot. But that doesn’t mean
>anything! There’s a lot of Black people in Ferguson,
>Missouri. Doesn’t mean they run the place.” The comedian
>said he understood how somebody could “adopt the delusion”
>that Jewish people “run show business…it’s not a crazy
>thing to think. But it’s a crazy thing to say out loud in a
>climate like this.”
>
>Chappelle also discussed NBA star Kyrie Irving, who recently
>was suspended from the Brooklyn Nets after he shared a link to
>the documentary Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America, a
>film that contains anti-Semitic sentiments. “He was slow to
>apologize,” Chappelle said. “And then the list of demands
>to get back in their good graces got longer and longer, and
>this is where I draw the line: I know the Jewish people have
>been through terrible things all over the world, but you
>can’t blame that on black Americans. You just can’t.”
>
>Before the monologue, Chappelle unfolded a piece of paper and
>read a dutiful statement — “I denounce anti-Semitism in
>all its forms, and I stand with my friends in the Jewish
>community” — and then added, “And that, Kanye, is how
>you buy yourself some time.”
>
>The uproar follows Chappelle receiving considerable blowback
>for two Netflix specials where he criticized the trans rights
>movement and made jokes that many felt were transphobic.
>
>Last year, Chappelle won an Emmy Award for, ironically enough,
>hosting Saturday Night Live.
>
>The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to NBC for comment.
>
>**edit**
>**end of swipe**
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>For the record, I don't fully agree with the ADL here, I'm
>just presenting the news regarding them raising umbrage.
>Wonder what NBC will do next.
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