“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” the comedian Dave Chappelle quipped on Saturday at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the first event of its kind in Saudi Arabia. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.”
I’ve been saying this for a long time, but it made people on the left in particular angry to hear it, because everyone loved it so much when he directed his caustic apathy towards the people who deserved it the most, but he’s never been an “ally” of any kind. Just a cathartic voice at times.
Celebrities are people. We should never put people on pedestals. Put ideas on pedestals.
Ironically, the right is better about this because they’re so dumb they shovel everything onto a pedestal, and accidentally create unity and community as a result.