Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon reacts to protests against Dave Chappelle's Netflix special amid the impending death of comedy.
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Not so long ago, it
not so long ago, it
was a feature of high school
biology class that biological
sex is biologically real. It is
detectable at the dna level you
are born with it.
You dont get to choose it.
Just like your eye: color
height susceptibility to
breast cancer or a million other
things it is. Genetic
genetics are real, maybe
unfortunately, but it doesnt
change the truth of it,
but now thats hate speech
in his new special
Dave Chappelle. The comedian
explains what happens when you
challenge this lunatic new
orthodoxy,
canceled people that are more
powerful than me.
You cancel J Dot, K, Rowling, my God,
J Dot, K, Rowling. Well, all the
Harry Potter books by herself
she sold so many books. The Bible
worries about her
laughter
and they canceled her because
she said in an interview. This
is not exactly what she said,
but essentially she said gender
was a fact
and then the Trans Community got
mad as bleep and started
calling her a turf. I dont even
know what the bleep that was,
but I know that Trans will make
up words to win arguments.
Well, that is the
truest thing ever thing. They
make up words to win arguments.
You see that in a lot of places
and on about as radical
conventional four years ago, no
one would have noticed it.
But now a number of Netflix
employees have decided to
protest the special
they wanted pulled off the
service.
Then they harassed a man who
came to support Chapelle and
freedom of speech
watch
chanting
its okay to laugh, but you are sparking hate conversation.
Why are you breaking my sign?
Why are you breaking my sign?
Bleep
hes got a weapon,
so they break his
sign. Then they accuse him. He
is left holding a stick, accuse
him holding a weapon.
So his speech is violence. Their
violence is speech, see how that
works.
What is interesting is the
number of people who really care
about this issue enough to
assault someone over. It is tiny,
yet they have disproportionate
power.
Three hundred and fifty million people in the
country. Maybe one thousand one hundred feel that
way and they are running
everything. Why is that?
Seth Dillon may know that
answer the Babylon become a one
of the very few remaining satire
sites on the entire
internet. He joins us tonight.
Seth. Thank you. So much for
coming on the stuff is in your
face every single day, you are
the target of a lot of this.
You have to wonder the people
trying to destroy your business
and your life. They are a tiny
percentage of Americans arent.
They
they are, but they wield all
the power.
This is the funny thing.
They really are a joke at this
point, because they try to
project themselves as being
marginalized.
These are the marginalized.
These are the oppressed
you cant make fun of them.
The way that you can tell who
holds all the power in a society
is by who you cant make fun of
right.
Thats right.
These are the people you
cant make fun of.
It is clear they hold all the
institutional power in our
culture, and it is very
interesting when you have
comedians like Chapelle. You
have to worry about now telling
jokes you dont just ask
yourself. Is this funny?
You have to ask yourself: is
this joke going to offend
somebody who is more powerful
than me but identifies as being
marginalized, because I might
lose my career?
Your site manages
to be consistently funny and I
think probably most of our
viewers get. You know Babylon
B headlines texted to them at
least once a day.
Do you feel you are on the edge
of getting your business taken
away from you?
I mean that is the goal
right.
There are ten different ways
they are trying to attack
comedy. One of them is not even
intentional. They are making
reality absurd
that whole opening. You did with
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and
these videos, and how fake they
are. It is impossible to satire
is that
these people are beyond parity.
They have turned reality into a
parody of itself.
Then there is an intentional
way. They fact check jokes, try
to rate temples, get them taken
down for misinformation,
then they accuse you of hate
speech under the guise of satire
or comedy like what theyre
doing with Chapelle and saying
his jokes are beyond the pale
and hurt people, but really it is
the joke police. It is the
people who are saying. Oh his
jokes hurt my feeling. Those
are the people who deserve to be
mocked more, not less, because it
is silly to act like joke.
Police like jokes are violence.
You said it earlier. You know
the speech is now violence and
the violence is speech.
Jokes are not violence,
they dont hurt anybody.
If we are all equal, we should
all be able to joke about each
other indiscriminately and not
have this hierarchical structure
where we have certain people who
are off limits and we cant joke
about them.
If we are all
equal boy, you got right to the
heart of it there.
Only in a country where we are
all considered equals cannot
happen, but we are not that.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-22.