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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can't kayfabe away the actual association. They chose to appear on screen with the guy. That's not in-character, that is a professional decision.

Or are you saying, "Chappelle is just pretending to be a heel, actually he hates autocrats and loves trans people?"

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm saying that backstage, they are different people from the ones we think, both good and bad, and who those people are I cannot say, I just know from limited exposure to celebrity that reality as we think we see it is manufactured.

A lot of people you could never imagine being in the same room together will have dinner together or hang out and chill and it's absolutely mind-blowing the first time you see it and realize what's going on.

I'm not saying the performances of people like Chappelle aren't sometimes vile and dangerous, it's still a professional decision to "be that person" on stage, oftentimes it's a well-planned professional decision involving agents, long-term plotlines and levels of social manipulation that we like to think we won't fall for.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My issue (at the moment) isn't with Chappelle but rather with those who enable, endorse, and platform him. Those who are happier drawing a paycheque than acting with integrity. It does not matter whether the bad things he does are done in character. It does not matter if the people who appear on-screen with him despise him off-screen.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 20 hours ago

right wingers love him, for obvious reason, its stroking his ego.