What people? And why should we care? "People" are saying literally everything. I can find "people" who say that the corridors of power are run by satan-worshipping, child-molesting lizard-people. I can find "people" who say that the COVID vaccine is filled with tracking chips made by Bill Gates. We've already agreed that some of the jokes weren't original. Lots of jokes aren't original. That's a pretty flimsy reason to protest a show.
No, the blackface analogy's accuracy isn't just my opinion. And yes, further making my point, some women see drag in the same way too! The key difference I suppose, is that nobody is going around saying "Drag👏Queens👏Are👏Women👏." If drag queens were campaining to compete in female sports or gain access to female-only spaces, I guess we'd be hearing more about that too.
Again, I'm not saying these women are correct, and again, neither is Dave, but it is accurate to say that some women (especially those who would identify themselves as TERFs), feel the same way about trans women, and men in drag, as some black people feel about blackface. You're listening to Dave's explanation of somebody else's viewpoint and reacting as if he himself holds that viewpoint. (Also, I didn’t say anybody in this discussion was screaming TERF. I was using “you” in a general sense. Not about you in particular.)
I'm not saying that the problem with (the majority of online) trans activists is that they aren't polite enough or likeable enough. I'm saying it's that they're violent, obnoxious, manipulative and flagrantly dishonest. And, sadly, because most people don't know trans people personally, they come to be seen as representative of the trans commuity. Let me spell this out; I don't think this is true. I do know trans people personally, and this couldn't be further from a description of them. But the overwhelming majority of people don't. So like it or not, how trans people are represented does matter.
I notice that you conveniently sidestepped my question of what you mean by "cancelled". Dave just released a video (well worth watching) in which he reveals that he's been disinvited from a bunch of film festivals for a completely unrelated movie. Is this "cancellation"? Does this count? And come on, it's so disingenuous to claim that there weren't numerous calls for the special to be removed from Netflix. It's only when it became clear that it wasn't going to happen that these other demands came out.
I used scare quotes around "supporting" because frankly I don't think these people do support trans people. Nor do I think they represent the majority of trans people's views. My criticising a particular use of scare quotes doesn't mean that scare quotes can never be used. Come on, you're obviously smart enough to understand this.
And finally, your last paragraph is so disingenuous that you should be ashamed of yourself. I wrote:
"All [framing every disagreement as 'you either agree with us or you want us dead'] does is make reasonable people roll their eyes and forget the possibilty of honest discourse."
And you twist that into:
"people who roll their eyes at deaths caused by systemic forms of hatred don't have empathy."
You're essentially doing the same catastrophising I'd just criticised. The names of the dead people in Terra Field’s tweet were “paraded” as a form of emotional manipulation. Nothing more. It’s absolutely transparent. (I’m not sure what point you were makin about parading the dead. You seem to have quoted yourself.) Dave Chappelle's show, I hope we can agree, had absolutely nothing to do with those deaths. It would be like me listing the black people killed during slavery or due to gun violence as a critique of Chappelle's fried chicken jokes. I know you see this. If we're going to talk about this we have to at least hold to a basic level of intellectual honesty.
