'Dear White People' showrunner Jaclyn Moore says she will no longer work with Netflix due to Dave Chappelle's comedy special, 'The Closer,' where he makes numerous jokes about trans women.
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Moore announced on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday night that she would no longer work with Netflix after she watched Chappelle’s latest standup special, “The Closer,” which premiered on the streamer on Tuesday. In the special, Chappelle makes numerous jokes about trans women. “After the Chappelle special, I can’t do this anymore. I won’t work for @netflix again as long as they keep promoting and profiting from dangerous transphobic content,” she wrote on Instagram.
I talked to Moore on Thursday afternoon from New Orleans, where she is working on the Peacock reboot of “Queer As Folk.”I never loved Dave’s trans material before but this time it felt different. This is the first time I felt like,"Oh, people are laughing at this joke and they’re agreeing that it’s absurd to call me a woman." The fact is that’s the exact rhetoric and language that is used against us. I have had beer bottles thrown at me.
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