Rage For The Machine
By Mitch Berg
The woke mob told the First Avenue “Jump!“.First Avenue replied “off what“?”
First Avenue buckled under the attack from the Woke Mob late in the day yesterday, and punted on the Dave Chapelle show:
The media coverage is, as always, shameful:
“The community”
Well, one community:
Looks like a raggedy little line of 24 White, Overschooled, Middle Class, Progressive White Activists (WOMPWAs), not a “community”.
Remember in the 1980s, when the left used to yuck it up over the purported censoriousness of
the “Parents Music Resource Council”, with the record labeling and other (in hindsight very mild) public moralizing?The left has become Tipper Gore.
July 21st, 2022 at 6:08 am
Squint real hard at the picture and you can see Danna Carvey doing his church lady thing in the crowd.
July 21st, 2022 at 6:22 am
As a friend of mine used to say when he saw videos like that porker assaulting that guy; “I would have knocked that beetch smooth out!”
July 21st, 2022 at 6:27 am
Just keep telling yourself that trans activists aren’t insane.
July 21st, 2022 at 8:15 am
It’s been so long that I lived in a shithole state, scenes like these look like National Geographic documentaries from Uganda to me.
Can’t imagine living like this.
July 21st, 2022 at 8:22 am
The left has become Tipper Gore
I would argue they had ALWAYS been Tipper Gore. Can you imagine Ambiguously Gay duo and Pat being produced today?
July 21st, 2022 at 9:10 am
Reminds me of Lenny Bruce, probably an unknown name to the Twitter mob and its handmaidens at 1st Ave. Mr Bruce was a comedian who salted his act with outrageous language. He was hounded by the authorities because Twitter didn’t exist yet, but the concept is the same. Comedians hold up mirrors to reflect the world, which is often dark and ugly. Suppression of free speech stinks no matter who cracks the whip.
July 21st, 2022 at 9:24 am
White people protesting that a black comedian is allowed to perform in minneapolis. Who says there’s no systemic racism? The vestiges of slavery are everywhere
July 21st, 2022 at 9:25 am
Sigh…. just another small but vocal minority…
July 21st, 2022 at 9:29 am
“Sigh…. just another small but vocal minority…”
They’re your people bud.
July 21st, 2022 at 9:35 am
Click the link in Mitch’s post to read the tweet by a person who said:
“I was at the Dave Chapelle show – he said on stage the protestors threatened the families of First Ave staff if they let him perform. Person making the threat said they “knew where they lived.”
Why is it Liberals/Progressives/Democrats are so enamored of narco-terrorist tactics? They always go after the family. Even the mafia didn’t do that.
These are your people, E. Can you explain it?
July 21st, 2022 at 10:12 am
“Why is it Liberals/Progressives/Democrats are so enamored of narco-terrorist tactics? “
Because Liberals/Progressives/Democrats are exactly the people who keep narco-terrorists in business
July 21st, 2022 at 10:50 am
doc, right on cue from John Cleese:
“You can do the creation and then criticize it, but you can’t do them at the same time. So if you’re worried about offending people and constantly thinking of that, you are not going to be very creative. So I think it has a disastrous effect.”
July 21st, 2022 at 11:20 am
Two points:
1st Ave did the least rock and roll thing.
And never in world history has a smaller group of people demanded so much more legitimacy then they already have.
July 21st, 2022 at 12:13 pm
If Chapelle is right, hopefully he’s told the workers take this to the police! Chilling a few hours/months in the pokey might do them a world of good.
Not a huge fan of Chapelle’s type of humor, but at the same point, there are a lot of comedians I don’t like (or wouldn’t like if I knew about them), and I’ve yet to threaten any of them, any of their families, or any of the workers at the theaters where they perform. Looks like part of the progressive left has yet to learn this lesson.
July 21st, 2022 at 12:17 pm
And never in world history has a smaller group of people demanded so much more legitimacy then they already have.
Biden-nominated Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson can not define the word “woman.”
These people have power because they operate in the context of a political culture that is insane.
July 21st, 2022 at 12:31 pm
I find it bizarre to be someone who books shows for a living and not realize in advance the exact pressure you’re going to get over booking Chappelle. If you’re not prepared to stand up to that, why book him in the first place?
In defense of the booker. Hard to keep up with all the outrage.
July 21st, 2022 at 12:32 pm
Seems fitting to be in SiTD’s moderation purgatory.
July 21st, 2022 at 12:47 pm
Ann Althouse notes that the WaPo is carrying water for the trans activists by declaring that Chapelle had made “transphobic” jokes on his Netflix show. As Althouse wrote:
“You’ve just accepted the criticism of Chappelle at face value, I see. Personally, if I’d been editing this, I would have changed it to “jokes perceived by some as transphobic.” Or maybe even “jokes involving transsexuals.”
By stating it as you have, you’ve sided with his critics in, not an opinion column, but what is ostensibly an objective news story. Nice job, WAPO. “
July 21st, 2022 at 12:56 pm
I didn’t realize so many people were forced to attend Chappelle’s show.
July 21st, 2022 at 1:17 pm
The top three biographies of women on the web page of the National Women’s History museum are not women at all, they are biological men.
There is a HUGE amount of social capital invested in the elimination of women.
https://www.womenshistory.org/students-and-educators/biographies
Because if they can make you believe that women don’t exist, they can make you believe anything.
July 21st, 2022 at 2:40 pm
GolfDoc, I’d argue that Chapelle is the anti-lenny bruce.
Bruce introduced filth and degeneracy into comedy. It wasn’t funny then, and it’s not now.
Chapelle is mocking the normalization of degeneracy.
July 21st, 2022 at 3:36 pm
You nailed it, Blade.
July 21st, 2022 at 3:45 pm
So, it’s now been reported that part of the reason 1st Ave cancelled, was the management was worried that they wouldn’t have enough workers. Allegedly, several of them threatened a sick out.
July 21st, 2022 at 3:54 pm
^^ First Avenue ranked among largest LGBT-owned businesses in the Twin Cities
https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2018/06/20/first-avenue-ranked-among-largest-lgbt-owned-businesses-in-the-twin-cities
July 21st, 2022 at 3:56 pm
The List: Twin Cities Largest LGBTQ-owned Businesses
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/subscriber-only/2018/06/14/the-list-twin-cities-largest-lgbtq.html
July 21st, 2022 at 5:45 pm
Damn, so the alphabet community was upset at Chappelle for attempting to exercise free speech?…..The horror….
July 21st, 2022 at 6:48 pm
I question the utility of having a list of LGBTQ business owners.
It’s not like there is a rigorous licensing process. I mean, suppose you purposely chose a business on the list and wanted to check its bona fides. What would you do?
July 21st, 2022 at 8:57 pm
OK, I don’t know a ton about Chappelle, but I’m amused that, given what little I do know about him, he was even booked at that venue.
And regarding a list of “alphabet” business owners, if “alphabets” were so darned oppressed, they wouldn’t go public with their identities as “alphabet” business owners. Just sayin’.