“I hear your feelings got hurt by Dave Chappelle,” McGowan tweeted, in a mocking message to Netflix employees and supporters who participated in Wednesday’s walkout demonstration, adding: “P**s off you brats.” Ahead of the protest, organizers called on Netflix to “do better” and claimed that Chappelle’s special, titled ‘The Closer’, “harms …
Read More »‘I’m here to talk to his master’: Chappelle protesters & supporters clash during Netflix walkout demonstration
Scores of Netflix employees walked out of the company’s Sunset Boulevard office on Wednesday and took to the sidewalk, where they chanted, “trans lives matter” and held up signs protesting Chappelle’s latest comedy special, ‘The Closer’. Activist and organizer Ashlee Marie Preston said creators need to hold Netflix accountable in …
Read More »Netflix fires black pregnant woman who organized walkout protest against Dave Chappelle comedy special
The woman, who did not identify herself out of fear of harassment, told The Verge she was fired on suspicion of leaking internal metric data on Chappelle’s ‘The Closer’ special to the press. Netflix does not typically share such data, which could include viewership numbers, as well as the costs …
Read More »Netflix defends Chappelle comedy special from protests as employees plan walkout over ‘transphobic’ jokes
“We know that a number of you have been left angry, disappointed and hurt by our decision to put Dave Chappelle’s latest special on Netflix,” Sarandos wrote in a company-wide email, according to Variety. Sarandos went on to say he understood the activists were concerned Chappelle’s jokes could somehow lead …
Read More »New Netflix doc ‘Convergence’ uses Covid as a vehicle to serve up the same old insipid ideology of identity politics
The Covid pandemic has been a difficult time for all of us – except, of course, for documentary filmmakers, who seem to be living through the most booming of boom times. In recent months, two much-hyped HBO documentaries – Spike Lee’s‘NYC Epicenter: 9/11 – 2021 ½’and Nanfu Wang’s ‘In the …
Read More »Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special is brilliant, so the woke are gunning for him again with cries of transphobia and homophobia
Firebrand comedian Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix stand-up special ‘The Closer’ has, not surprisingly, been met with outrage by all the usual woke suspects. Headlines like “Dave Chappelle faces backlash for troubling trans jokes” from Newsweek, and Deadline stories declaring that the “executive producer of ‘Dear White People’ is ‘done’ with Netflix” because …
Read More »Netflix’s Q-Force is a ham-fisted attempt to make the security state seem queer-friendly. Welcome to the LGBTQCIA
Q-Force centres around a gay James Bond type called Steve Maryweather – known to his homophobic boss as ‘Mary’. He works for a thinly veiled version of the CIA called the American Intelligence Agency, but he and his team are sidelined to a dingy garage office in West Hollywood due …
Read More »He-Man and the Masters of the Wokeverse: How Netflix’s agenda-driven programming is causing customers to tune out
On the surface, Netflix’s reboot of the classic 80s cartoon ‘He-Man and the Masters of the Universe’ looked like it had everything it needed to be a huge success. It had a beloved brand, a huge nostalgia-hungry fanbase, and a respected filmmaker overseeing it who was a pop-culture darling. But …
Read More »‘A Netflix show, a Barbie doll, and now Sports Illustrated’: Critics clash with Osaka over media flurry amid ‘mental health break’
The former world number one withdrew from the French Open in May after boycotting obligatory press conferences while citing mental health issues. Claiming that she “never wanted to be a distraction,” Osaka revealed she had “suffered long bouts of depression since the US Open in 2018” and is often hit …
Read More »Seaspiracy? Netflix’s new anti-fishing film that’s being lauded by celebrities has got more holes in it than a trawler’s net
Riding high in Netflix’s most popular offerings this week is a documentary about fishing. No, it’s not about middle-aged men enjoying a day at the river bank, but how humanity is destroying the planet by over-exploiting our seas and oceans. While Seaspiracy (awful title) makes some illuminating points along the …
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