archive.fo/5IbuV >When a quiet soul I once knew visited a minor theocracy, she did something uncharacteristic in her hotel room each night. After a day on the tense streets, where each word and gesture was as invigilated as her sleeve-length, she had pent-up impulses to release. And so, alone at last, she found herself dancing and swearing for minutes at a time in a kind of ecstatic delirium. She had no previous (or subsequent) interest in such behaviour. It was precisely the bar on it that had created the urge.
>I remembered her story when I saw that opinions have diverged on the newest work by Dave Chappelle. The man who was perhaps the first great comic of the century has lost critics with his militantly unwoke Netflix special Sticks & Stones. By way of compensation, he has to make do with the support of — at an approximate count — almost everyone else. As of September 5, the review-aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes reports a critics’ score of 33 per cent. The audience score is 99 per cent.
>Lots of people refuse to hear a word against this ripest of stand-up performances. They include some of the least likely chauvinists I know, and members of almost every group it makes savage sport of: women, gay people, assorted races. Watching the show, you sense the audience have come in from a tightly policed outer-world to partake of illicit fun they did not know they craved. Critics will hope that Sticks & Stones is the last stand of old-fashioned comedy. For better or worse, I suspect it is actually the future of entertainment.
>Chappelle intuits that, in sensitive times, when delicacy towards others is all but enforced, there is enormous latent demand for the opposite. This demand exists even among those who do not sympathise a jot with his opinions, whether about #MeToo (“I’m what’s known on the streets as a victim-blamer”) or about the LGBTQ+ community (“alphabet people”).
>It is the subversive frisson they are after: the cocking of a snook at something, the release of tension.
>The content of the jokes is a means to that end. Put another way, the freeze on certain kinds of art that some have expected since #MeToo and the rise of campus censorship might never transpire. In fact, over time, our culture might become all the coarser for those movements, through no conscious doing of their own. The more constrained people feel in public discourse, the more relief they will seek in entertainment.
>You need not view any of this as desirable to recognise its likelihood. It is with zero relish that I predict a boom in all sorts of dreary shock tactics in the arts, on an aesthetic par with a child saying “boobies” in adult company.
>There are moments in Sticks & Stones when Chappelle resorts to this kind of too-easy win. Shut your eyes during the ethnic impressions and you could be front row at a Roy “Chubby” Brown gig in a Walsall working men’s club midway into the Ted Heath premiership. He makes a very early-noughties (and very American) equation of France with effeteness — always an odd take on a culture that can leave the anglophone world standing with its machismo.
>But if Chappelle can wow audiences when so far south of his best, that only makes my case. It is not the quality of his work that is the draw. It is the transgressiveness of it.
>Netflix, Hollywood and other content-factories cannot help but spot the failure of the critics to speak for the broad market here. If there is an unmet demand for a rawer kind of entertainment, it will not remain unmet for very long. Studios will answer to the commercial incentive, not the moral pressure.
>At 46, Chappelle might be reading the zeitgeist better than the cub critics who see in him a reactionary uncle.
David Martinez
bump
Benjamin Taylor
Another liberal tries to medically pathologize anyone who disagrees with his holy opinion
Thomas Carter
Tl;dr Liberals have become the people you tip toe around until they leave at house parties.
Camden Cox
he thinks his profession is modern day theologian or some shit.
Brandon Wilson
He is in a new age religious cult that is attempting to institute blasphemy laws.
Sebastian Wright
the saying "all but x" will never, ever make sense to me. In this instance, "when delicacy towards others is all but enforced." means that it is everything except for enforced.... IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE FUCK THIS STUPID SAYING PUT IT IN A CAMP AND RAPE IT TO DEATH.
Leo Walker
Why should listen to what a poo n loo has to say?
Robert Reed
>per cent >per >cent By the penny, lads. Why is this bitch allowed to write anything for a publication?
>people behave a certain way >the left thinks simply shaming them and banning them for behaving that way will somehow fix it Those people are fucking retarded, don't they remember their own childhood? My mother would spank me if I used naughty words, do you think it somehow stopped me from saying things like "fuck"?
I've never known anyone who didn't hate political correctness with every fiber of their being
Alexander Rivera
That's why there's so much censorship. They want to silence the masses and push their bullshit onto us.
Anthony Clark
Tl:dr. People fucking hate woke culture and it’s almost come to an end.
Jeremiah Miller
Fucking saved. Jesus, you put my feeling for the past three years into one sentence I love you user
Oliver Mitchell
It means it's just below the line of being enforced, nigger. Learn some English.
Landon Bailey
No just a court jester...but a king who gets offended by a jester is shown to everyone as a weak king.
Benjamin Ross
>and it’s almost come to an end
Haha no. You'll get to say soft, harmless things about liberals and the "elites" and all of this political correctness going on nowadays. But don't you ever think you'll be able to get a word in about the Israel lobby. See it's one thing to be mean and "tell it like it is" but criticizing Israel? No way pal. That's going too far! That's just going too far! Nobody and I mean nobody gets to talk badly about our greatest ally!
SEETHING. Remember to bully these fags early and often.
Easton Jenkins
Ridicule is a potent weapon
Anthony Stewart
>reactionary uncle. Bahaha, are they calling him an uncle Tom?!
Angel Turner
Year is 2021 pol users were voted funniest people on the internet
Jack White
Vice Principal Donno
Joshua Russell
oh look a crybaby streetshitter
Carson Murphy
Rich white people telling black men to sit down and shut up is the new politically correct. I love this timeline.
Connor Lee
Financial Times is a giant Jew World Order mouthpiece
Joseph Foster
Yes, but the problem is that the left is revolutionary and the right is reactionary. The left has a lot of dumb people willing to spend time literally tracking your place of work, and the companies just prefer the easier route than have a PR backlash. Meanwhile the right goes "yeah, I'm not sure about these troons not being mentally stable, but whatever", and only will take action when they have their children with a dildo in their ass in sex ed class. The right goes "we won, they aren't raping our children in schools", meanwhile they are still dressing them in troon clothes and teaching them how being gay is great and you can't say anything. That's why the left ends up conquering cultural spaces.
Thomas Torres
Ahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahah. COMMUNISTS SEETHING IN TOTAL DEFEAT. >BUT IT WAS OUR TURN DENIED, FAGGOTS! TRUMP ALREADY WON 2020.
That's not true at all. They can only do what you describe as "conquering" cultural spaces because of laws that make it illegal to protest. They change the structure by any means necessary, then scream racism/sexism/homophobia any time the structure is put back within the realm of actual equality under the law. It's going to end with their blood being used to pave the streets of a greater republic.
> Illegal to protest > Scream racism That's pretty much what a protest is. And you have a right to protest. > Change the structure You are making my point. > It's going to end with their blood being used to pave the streets of a greater republic. I hope so, but it seems impossible right now.
Jeremiah Morales
are blacks noticing that jews are the ones pushing the gay agenda against them? or do they just see marlow stern as a regular white person?
The problem with liberals is that for them it DID stop them. They internalize oppression than project it on everyone else. They obsess with authority and hate that others can shake it off. They lack the individualism and creativity to express themselves and thus lash out when others do it because it makes them feel inferior.
Eli Rogers
Court jester is a fucking amazing movie
Ryder Robinson
The next 9/11 will happen on tuesday to try and drag Trump into a war before the election
Xavier Watson
No it won't. Mossad is too sloppy.
Anthony Ortiz
this, and checked ffs people, THIS PLACE is media THIS PLACE is where the comedy OP's article describes has thrived chappelle hopped on the bandwagon at its peak he is legacy media trying to capture the vivacity of new media
Jordan Reed
How can it become ca boom if political incorrectness when it was the normal for decades?
Ryan Morgan
I've never known a time when the official and sanctioned public discourse was more at odds with the way the general public felt. This particular thing may or may not be consequential but regardless it's indicative of the pressure that's building up and will one day explode on them.
t. old as fuck
Jason Roberts
no one. literally no one suspects him of being a pedo apologist who is trying to do damage control for the elites he sold himself out to. these people are joking about fucking kids in your face so you could take it lightly. no one fucking sees this. why is this so obvious to me but all i see are shills trying to push him because "libs hate him" or other prominent media figures trying to get you on his side through similar means. why are you people so stupid? why do i even bother anymore? its all so pointless
Aaron Rogers
> And it came to pass, that Dave told politically incorrect jokes again like he did in the days of yore. And the people rejoiced. > Yet the liberals balked and so the rejoicing people made fun of them too. And all was well and America was saved. If this happens you guys know we're gonna have to keep the niggers right? Oh I don't want to either but.....
How can this author act like discontent with politically correct ideology is only now "booming"? How far up your own ass can you be?
Eli Turner
>(((white)))
Wyatt James
>the freeze on certain kinds of art that some have expected
That we expected. The critic class who defines public discourse. Let's be clear. Only by extension the readers of the Financial Times who aspire to emulate the ruling class and their definitions of the bounds of discourse.
>>our culture might become all the coarser for those movements, through no conscious doing of their own
For coarser read "views and behaviors more appropriate to the people who fix our plumbing, and not to aspiring members of the ruling class such as you!" But in any case it wasn't our fault, let's be clear about that.
>>The more constrained people feel in public discourse
By us. The critic class who have decided what culture shall now be.
>>You need not view any of this as desirable
Framing up the consequences of their actions as being nothing to do with them. But in any case now you're prepared with an argument to quote and then sigh wearily about to your frenemies at the next Workplace Socialization Event.
By the way, how the hell does FT plan to make a paywall work? I'm not saying it's a bad thing (I, fo one, hate payments via click-bait) but how to make it WORK? freespeech.tv has the same issue. Who even knows it exists if you can't share their content. FT doesn't even publish a synopsis.
Would you rather have conservative niggers or white liberals? Keep in mind only one of those is ACTUALLY a threat to your way of life.
Ethan Foster
yet there's a market for it too. Dieudonné (nigger french stand up comedian naming the jew on a daily basis since a decade) is filthy rich and fills stadiums with his audience.
Wyatt Turner
No such thing as chicks with dicks. Just dudes with tits.
Despite the author’s use of smarmy condescension, justification peppered throughout self-indulgent verbiage, he’s going to have to cry moar, and get a fucking helmet. The PC liberal crowd doesn’t have a sense of humor, they’re too busy projecting their own self-hatred onto others by way of policing how everyone speaks. They’re fucking stupid, and I don’t bother with them, it’s mental illness, plain and simple.
Brody James
>Shock the bourgeois >No goyim, no. Not that way >Dats sexist, racist, homophobic >Don’t punch down, be a nice little man
Nathan Reed
bump
Jace Taylor
lad
Just think about what "percent" means for like 2 seconds before posting.
Michael Nguyen
>this is some shocking, new discovery for user Congratulations!
Wyatt White
>people don't like being censored Stop the fucking presses.
Ayden Fisher
>The more constrained people feel in public discourse, the more relief they will seek in entertainment. Reading between the lines here; the jew is drip-feeding us mild "hate" content to get it out of our system, so they can continue to pacify us in the real world.
