so as many of you saw yesterday vice
wrote an article about Dave Chappelle's
new stand up sticks and stones over on
Netflix and they weren't too happy about
it but in good fashion BuzzFeed just
came out with their own article pretty
upset about mr. Chappelle what is up
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yeah those of you who don't know I have
a book out called cancelled inside
YouTube canceled culture where it's kind
of like the outraged culture that's
going after Dave Chappelle but more so
in the YouTube community all right so
the ebook and audiobook are available
the e-book there are free versions of
that book available until the end of the
month so about four more days alright
that will be down in the description
down in the pin comment below but
speaking of the book I wanted to start
out because I actually I actually talked
about comedians in the book because it
they deal with this a lot they deal with
the outraged culture in the canceled
culture a lot so let me read you this
quick little section chapter 19 I'm a
huge fan of comedians and comedians are
people who are oh geez when it comes to
dealing with canceled culture their job
is to make us laugh and oftentimes it's
by observing how silly our world is and
making fun of it
unfortunately every joke is going to
offend someone I remember seeing one of
my favorite comedians the late Patrice
O'Neal defending a fellow comedian who
costs an outrage when asked about how he
could justify a bad joke
Patrice responded by saying the
following the attempt is what I'm trying
to fight for funny jokes and unfunny
jokes come out of the same birth so yeah
I highly recommend you watch the video I
did yesterday about the Vice article
about Dave Chappelle
because here's here's something that I
will just keep pounding into everybody's
head intent matters okay like I
mentioned I'm reading this new book
called the coddling of the American mind
and something that they talk about is
why intent matters so the court of
public opinion is absolute lunacy like
that's what led to the Salem witch
trials and stuff like that but look at
the court of law all right so the book
had a great example in there let's say a
guy tried to poison and kill his wife
all right but she did not die he would
still get in a lot of trouble for
attempted murder because his intention
was to kill her now
let's say that the wife made a peanut
butter sandwich and she had no idea that
her husband was allergic to peanuts hell
the husband didn't even know he was
allergic to peanuts she kisses him he
has an allergic reaction would she go to
jail for attempted murder no because
there was no intent all right Mike I
think one of the best ways to look at
outrage culture and canceled culture is
to just ask yourself like what would
happen in the court of law is there
enough evidence here to lock somebody up
all right so when it comes to comedians
like Dave Chappelle making jokes and
their intent is to make people laugh
there's not much to really
set about so one of the reasons I talked
about that Patrice O'Neal story which I
recounted in my book was because this
article from BuzzFeed so let me just
read you a real quick section from that
Chapelle still wants it both ways he is
willing to address criticisms of his
earlier sets that were more flagrantly
lazily anti-trans but not actually
apologize or admit to changing his mind
or express any meaningful empathy it's
the kind of purposefully ludicrous
statement that's designed to provoke of
course it's not even funny so much as
shocking so a few things a few things
look let's all unpack this real quick
like funding is subjective like do any
of you watch drew gooden if you do let
me know down to the comments below
true Gooden is the man drew Gooden made
an amazing video about Saturday Night
Live right and he talks a lot about the
subjectivity of humor why and what
people find funny and unfunny like
something you find funny might not be
funny to someone else it is all
subjective okay so one of the issues
here is that this this journalist from
BuzzFeed news who probably gets mad at a
lot of ridiculous things like why are
they going to be the judge of funny like
I'm gonna link the Patrice O'Neal
interview down below it is absolutely
hilarious and I'm so sad like every now
and then I just get so sad that we lost
Patrice O'Neal but he's on like um the
news I I can't remember which news
station it was it's pretty big news show
but he's debating with somebody from
like this like super like like no making
jokes about these things like
organization and he's just talking he's
like your job is not in funny
our job is in funny and you're trying to
tell us what to do and you guys it's
like this is compelled speech like it's
not that's not what what we
you and I hate I hate talking about the
light I I need to talk about freedom of
speech in order to make these points and
make these videos but I hate talking
about it I hate that it's even become
something that we need to debate about
like the fact that people are trying to
silence other people is just absolutely
mind-blowing
okay like if you're living in a world
where you can't even like let comedians
do their job like I just don't even want
to know what the rest of your life is
like like it just doesn't seem like a
happy fun life like comedians are there
to joke and rise and they they target
everybody I on the comments of my last
video I saw somebody say like Dave
Chappelle like they love him because he
goes after everyone alright and what
blows my mind even more is the title of
his stand-up special is sticks and
stones all right do any of you remember
the sticks and stones thing from when
you were a kid sticks and stones may
break my bones but words can never hurt
me
all right because they can't okay but
Dave Chappelle like a lot of his set is
talking about people getting offended
and outraged over these words that he is
saying as a comedian he's not a member
of a hate group he is not trying to
oppress anybody all right
and it's something that he jokes about
he starts his set off by joking about
this so what's even more mind-blowing is
not only did this journalist write an
article about it but like I'm really
sitting back and thinking of the
editorial staff at places like BuzzFeed
and vice right so here's the kind of
chain of command even though I've never
worked for BuzzFeed or advice here's
kind of how it works
all right the journalists had to come up
with the idea the journalist then had to
pitch the idea but sometimes a
journalist might pitch the idea and it's
a little bit softer than what they
actually write but after they write that
then it goes to an editor for final
so when I look at this article from
BuzzFeed I'm like how did it make so
many steps how did it progress so much
and they said you know what this is a
good idea right like I feel you know all
YouTube creators websites like BuzzFeed
or vice or Vox or even like you know
news outlets you know you got CNN and
MSNBC and Fox News always it's like
who's your target audience like you
always got to think about that like who
am i targeting who am i riding these for
right and when I look at this article
from BuzzFeed I'm like is this is this
who BuzzFeed wants as their community is
people who get outraged about comedians
so the last thing I want to talk about
is have any of you seen the movie PC you
it's like some in 90s it has Jeremy
Piven in it and who else is in it I
think one of the Baldwin's is in it is
he I don't remember no no Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau looked like one of the
Baldwin's and he was this weird stoner
guy anyways if you've seen PC you let me
know down to the comments below but when
I look at like what this what's going on
with outraged culture like PC you was
kind of making fun of this in the 90s
but there's a line to get into a party
and it has all these different oppressed
groups all arguing with each other about
who should be in the front of the line
right so like it's like you know people
of color and then it's people from the
LGBTQ community and it's people from
different groups but they're they're
just kind of poking fun about how
everybody wants their problem to be the
worst problem so they get special
treatment because I said it yesterday
and I'll say it again
neither the Vice article nor the
BuzzFeed article discussed how Dave
Chappelle started off his set by making
fun of suicide and throughout his set he
made fun of the opioid crisis all right
so like I think just like in a joking
kind of funny way how funny would would
it be if I came on here making videos
attacking Vice
BuzzFeed's saying well what about the
opioid crisis what about the suicide
rate more people are dying from opioid
addiction and suicides than anybody who
you know is being you know a victim of a
hate crime because each year tens of
thousands of people are dying from
opioid overdoses no I'm not gonna do
that because the dude Dave Chappelle was
joking he's a comedian and listen I have
lost many many many people to overdoses
I've lost many people to suicide alright
and something that makes life just a
little bit easier is being able to watch
comedians joke about it and I can laugh
about it you know what I mean
it helps not give these things in life
so much power over us so anyways like if
you're out there like I had some people
say they're unsubscribing and I'm sorry
if I lose you but like the community I
want the community I want here is people
who know which things to put their
energy into and getting outraged about
comedians like I don't think that's one
of them alright
but anyways again don't forget check out
in the description and the pin comment
below my brand new book cancelled inside
YouTube canceled culture is now and
there are free versions of the ebook
available until the end of the month
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