'Dear White People' Showrunner Boycotts Netflix Over Dave Chappelle's Latest Comedy Special
The firestorm caused by Dave Chappelle's final comedy special on Netflix shows no signs of slowing down, as a new layer of gasoline has been poured on the situation. Jaclyn Moore, the showrunner for the Netflix comedy show Dear White People, a transgender white female, has decided to boycott Netflix over their continued allowance of Chappelle and his alleged jokes against transgender people.
I told the story of my transition for
netflix</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Most?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">most's Pride week. It's a network that's been my home on @DearWhitePeople. I've loved working there. I will not work with them as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content.— Jaclyn Moore (@JaclynPMoore) October 7, 2021
While recently under fire himself for the transgender jokes in the special, many on social media pointed to this as justification and proving Chappelle's point right.
A white person was running Dear White People and is about to boycott the platform over a black comic. This was literally the point of his jokes. https://t.co/bNNXMu29hA
— 𝑨𝒍𝒊 🐍 (@jordanfibonacci) October 8, 2021
The executive producer of Dear White People is a white person. And now she’s attacking a Black person. Giving Dave Chappelle a lot of material! https://t.co/2lJXH8UqoX
— Perez Hilton (@PerezHilton) October 8, 2021
Wait a fuckin minute. The show “dear white people”, which is supposedly about black ppl’s struggles & has a 90s soundtrack has a lead producer that is non-black? & wants to boycott a black man? https://t.co/q2w3xTAgsZ
— Dump Truck (@ta__mka) October 8, 2021
While the intended effect may have been to rally people against Chappelle or Netflix, the opposite also happened across the internet among a mix of supporters and detractors. The news of the showrunner for a Black-experience-driven drama being a white female led to many confused people on Twitter, as well as some feeling vindicated for never liking the show in the first place. The tweet by Variety that first broke the story was also noted as being "ratioed" by some because of a Twitter user pointing out this fact.
I’m just confused how a white woman is a show runner for “Dear White People” ……. Lol
— Christine (@cp_justdgaf) October 7, 2021
A white woman being the showrunner of ‘Dear White People’ explains everything, man.
— Colb (@___Colb___) October 8, 2021
no wonder i couldn’t get into dear white people. now it makes sense. pic.twitter.com/rDgRCLcfif
— fckn it up like oopsie-daisiee 💅🏾 (@lovergalorer) October 8, 2021
The show runner for "Dear White People" is literally just this huh pic.twitter.com/1RJ95ZqdsN
— Xion Archaeus 💀 (@XionTheDark) October 8, 2021
"dear white people" and its written by a white person, no wonder that show became a bum ass fawkin musical pic.twitter.com/lzLTYlDwCT
— 🍊 LILLYง BLACKTOBER! (@gimme_ur_d0llar) October 8, 2021
As expected, there were plenty that didn't really have a dog in the fight and chose to just stand on the sidelines and make memes while enjoying the fighting between either side of the viral debate. Memes and old images from XXXtentacion and Rachel Dolezal were brought back for this moment, among many others.
Me watching the Dear White People/Chappelle twitter discourse pic.twitter.com/uKovyq1SMV
— Julio y El Santo vs Las Mujeres Vampiro (@Julio_DA) October 8, 2021
About the whole “dear white people” thing trending…X said it best. pic.twitter.com/X0sB4aLDub
— UV (@Universevitrual) October 8, 2021
Dave Chappelle is wrong & Dear White People having a white show runner isn’t a good look. See how that works? pic.twitter.com/FFoiCRwoE8
— Playlist Papi (@DapperDomo) October 8, 2021
Gonna tell my kids this was the writer of Dear White People, Jaclyn Moore pic.twitter.com/hOi5Hjt5Xe
— Simon Gloom (@simongloom) October 8, 2021
Moore did make another tweet to try and address her role with the show, saying that she was only the showrunner for the fourth season and the only white writer.
I was hired to write on Dear White People by Justin Simien before season one. After season 3 I was promoted by Justin to run the show with him for season 4. I was the show's only white writer.
— Jaclyn Moore (@JaclynPMoore) October 8, 2021
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KiwiCount
Man, JK Rowling really ruffled a lot of feathers by stating basic truths about sex. Amusing it continues to piss off people off to such a degree, peak transing has never been so easy.
Note that Jaclyn transitioned during the pandemic, which means the show was originally run by a white male, the exact antipode of what a progressive should be.
KiwiCount
Lmao, just looked at his twitter. He's 6 feet 4 inches and openly states how he transitioned from "Bi sad boy to the kind of girl he used to get sad about", has a tattoo on his shoulder of a naked woman with a penis (futanari?), used faceapp and lamented he "could never even be that cute as a girl." and so much more!
Coombrain and egocentrism, what a sordid individual.
KiwiCount
Since KYM doesn't feature and edit button, I feel the need to amend parts of my previous statements. Jaclyn was a writer for some of the episodes of the show, not the actual showrunner.
He also lives in fear of the dreaded Kiwi Farms, how typical.
KoimanZX
White liberals often underestimate how conservative racial minorities can be. Black people specifically tend to be more religious than Whites (Black Baptists are the biggest deniers of evolution.)
Gumshoe
It's not really just white liberals, white conservatives often make the same mistake. People assume that just because black people overwhelmingly vote Democratic that they must be very liberal or far left, but it isn't true at all. Many are quite conservative and far more could conceivably vote Republican if the party wasn't so consistently antagonistic toward them.
Chewybunny
Why does every picture of her have her looking down on you with this sense of smug disdain?
Gone
Because people like that truly believe they are superior to us peasants.
Never underestimate the narcissism of radicals; many extremists are able to rationalize their disgusting behaviors/beliefs because of it.
Chewybunny
Radical activists are narcissistic by definition – their entire world view is held together by the idea that they are saving the people.
A Concerned Rifleman
"We support the voice of our black brethren, but only as long as they support our heavily jingoistic mantras."
No wonder the left pushes for white hate so much, without a common enemy their entire confederacy of racists, alphabet mobsters and Colored Pe- oh sorry that's not politically correct, People of Color would be wringing out each other's throats.
Alex Reynard
We all need to come together and join hands in unity.
And then look disdainfully over at the deformed guy in the green t-shirt that says "FEET".