Well, if there's one thing to learn from this Green Day controversy, it's that liberals are strongly in favor of entertainers being allowed to interject their personal politics into their work.
Now that that's settled, let me just check in on what this Dave Chappelle controversy is all about.........
Just watched the dave chappelle's SNL monologue and it's beyond me how people can think it was ok. This is the scary kind of antisemitism, everyone can easily condemn Kanye's ridiculous statements because they're just so over the top and clearly offensive, but it's the subtle antisemitism that I'm scared of. He's desensitizing us to antisemitism, making sure we slowly but surely accept it as an ok thing. It starts with this and then moves on to everything else. He's saying everything that Kanye is saying but he's doing it in the "right" way, and that's fucking scary to me
I hate using the language of "canceled/canceling" because it feels delegitimizing but this thing with John Mulaney and Dave Chappelle is a situation where canceling can be something positive and meaningful. On the one hand, people have overblown canceling as this rabid force attacking everyone and everything. On the other, it's become a glib "oh no, don't let the libs cancel you" joke for ultimately pretty harmless shit. But this is someone immensely popular with a platform and a large audience inviting an infamously transphobic comedian to deliver a surprise transphobic, homophobic, and weirdly ableist opening on their tour and then calling that person their best friend.
The first tweet hits particularly hard because it's a reminder that being the butt of a joke that 12,000 people laugh at isn't very far from being the victim of a hate crime. It's not just offensive, it's fucking dangerous. It's demonstrably unsafe.
Transphobia isn't "brave" or "unsanitized comedy", it's a crucial tool for maintaining the status quo of interpersonal and legislative violence.
So yeah, cancel John Mulaney. Hold public figures accountable for targeting us, over and over again.