Trans Netflix employees will stage walkout to protest Chappelle special

Interesting that this article uses the &quot;latinx&quot; terminology. Here in Colombia where I live, I have only ever met one person who supports the use of this terminology whereas many people I talk to find it explicitly offensive that a bunch of foreigners think they get to rewrite their language.<p>It&#x27;s ironically an incredibly culturally insensitive move wrapped in the veil of self congratulating cultural sensitivity.

lol seems like a great excuse to take a day off. we don&#x27;t need more woke censorship. if they don&#x27;t like Chapelle, how about just not watching his show? Why do 800 people get to impose their idea of whats just on millions of Netflix users? If Netflix salaries are as high as I&#x27;ve heard they should have no trouble finding replacements for these clowns anyways.

While I don&#x27;t find this surprising at all, I do find it interesting that a company like Netflix, a studio where most of their originals are overwhelmingly pro-LGBT, still has this issue when one of the biggest comedians in the world pisses off some tiny segment of their workforce. It seems that this segment of people are never going to be happy.

I don&#x27;t know about what Chappelle said, but can you imagine all the latino employees walked off if there was any show that dipected latinos in a negative light, or black employees were upset because of older movies with negative stereotypes, that would seem untenable.

It&#x27;s good to see Netflix hold strong against the woke nonsense[1]. I hope they keep it together. Every time one of these big companies caves, the madness only grows. As Chappelle says in <i>Closer</i>, &quot;I don&#x27;t care about Twitter because Twitter isn&#x27;t a real place.&quot; The media just loves the clickbait they get out of this drama but they are fickle and will move on shortly.<p>[1] yes, <i>nonsense</i>. The the vast Netflix library contains some dark stuff, but none of it was an issue last week because it doesn&#x27;t attract attention the way Dave does

This thread is already full of people who didn&#x27;t read or understand the critique of Netflix as presented in the article. It&#x27;s not an issue of &quot;Dave Chappelle thinks a bad thing and should be punished&quot; it&#x27;s &quot;Netflix promotes an equivocation that actively harms people&quot;.<p>&gt; “This is not an argument with two sides. It is an argument with trans people who want to be alive and people who don’t want us to be,” Field added. “This all gets brushed off as offense though — because if we’re just ‘too sensitive’ then it is easy to ignore us.”<p>Went into the special before it hit the news because I like some of Chappelle&#x27;s other work. I liked a few parts, and I didn&#x27;t like others. I think it&#x27;s totally super neato that Dave Chappelle has his personal opinions on trans people, but publicly playing the &quot;just asking questions&quot; game costs putting giving both sides on equal footing beforehand.<p>This is an irresponsible thing of Netflix to do, and silly to conflate with censorship. Yelling &quot;I think there&#x27;s a fire&quot; in a crowded building causes as much harm as yelling &quot;are we sure the building&#x27;s really burning?&quot; when it is. Absolutely think and say either if you want to, but know that when you amplify them it causes real social harm.

Is there a study or report why all these social dramas are always coming from the FAANG companie? Are they simply because big? Or just the inner hierarchy is more young? Like I rarely hear things like this from IBM, or Intel, or Cisco etc. the list can go on. Maybe happens in those companies too but when I skim the headlines and I see LGBTQ &#x2F; race &#x2F; tech company it&#x27;s always FB, Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon

Huh just don&#x27;t watch the show then? Netflix should not budge here. Sick and tired of this cancel culture.

They’re free to give up their ample salaries and walk away from the company. If their very lives are at stake, wouldn’t that be appropriate?

Apparently the woke mob doesn&#x27;t know about the Streisand effect.