Wednesday, May 4

Did Dave Chappelle's Attacker Have a Penis?

We've read that the attacker was carrying a knife-ejecting gun... (Wrap your head around that one.)  But the media needs to tell us, did this person have a non-replica biological penis?  After he was attacked, Chappelle chose to return to the stage and finish his set. Making jokes about his fresh attack. Bad move...  

The comedian was knocked down, and took more than the "bitch slap" or open-palmed weak-ass punch that Will Smith delivered to Chris Rock on Oscars night.  Two big differences:  Rock saw Smith's attack coming, and was able to brace himself.  Rock looked to the back of the stage for security help or producer guidance and received none.  He was in good enough physical shape to go on because he never left the stage.  He kinda had no choice;  the people running the show and the audience essentially laughed off that assault (and make no mistake:  you put hands on other people, including their person (cane, walker, eyeglasses, ballcap, etc.), you've committed an assault.)

Comedians, if you are down-and-out attacked like Chappelle was, security responds in an instant, and you leave the stage after being assaulted, please don't "go on with the show". Chappelle was rattled and his first-response was to make an in-character crude remark, "That was a trans man."  So... was it?

Did they really work over a biological female like that, whether she assaulted and flying tackled him, and had a weapon but was unable to use it?

We need to know, reader do, did the person have a biological penis?  Or was Chappelle ... just kidding!

It's not his fault really, he is who he is.  But why allow him to return to the stage where he also make the joke (?) about getting his kicks working over the nigger backstage?  Feeling the back of his hair?  *echoes of Hillary Clinton cackling about Mummar Gaddafi's gruesome death videos here, which Vladimir Putin allegedly watches and surely thinks about when he considers his own fate, and fight to the death... (say shh, Tom Friedman doesn't think you should think about that...)*

Violence isn't a joke. Violence begets violence.  You don't necessarily need a penis and natural testosterone to attack and try to kill another person, but let's be honest:  this isn't the man v. woman level of attack, and response, like we are seeing in the joke trial of Depp v. Heard that everyone in America is apparently eating up... (a weeks long trial in a civil case, wtf?  Most civil courts in most jurisdictions are backlogged from the pandemics;  who the hell is running that show that has been dragging on and on and on for weeks?  It's not even in Hollywood, where we expect the police and courts to be under the thumb of celebrity, like those "still deciding" whether they have enough evidence to bring any charges against the man who fired a loaded weapon at his co-worker on set, killing her.  Let him speak of protocol explaining "cold gun", and point the finger at others in court.  Bring the charges in a court of law, at least, and let him pay to defend himself, like it works elsewhere.  When you don't charge, you're relying on the police investigators essentially to decide;  that role belongs to people on a jury, even a grand jury that helps decide whether to bring charges...)

Back to Dave Chappelle's attack:  it should not matter whether a man or a woman charged the stage with a weapon that somehow made it past security.  But Chappelle should have been physically checked for injuries to himself, and never let back on that night.

Plus, it was a apparently a multi-comedian set, that's why Chris Rock and Jamie Foxx -- both players in Will Smith Oscar night assault -- were both present, I understand.  Chappelle's not returning to finish his set would not mean "the show did not go on".*  That's another issue, for another day though. The audience would still be entertained, right?

He chose to return, and his foolish handlers permitted this, and now he's on record saying that he put hands on the person, and the person was a trans man, which means to me the person got a real working over, not only by security but by others backstage as well. Chappelle had the audience laughing at the violence more than the typical trans jokes that tend to feed his crowd.

So somebody should report on this:  did they really kick the ass of a biological woman back there, mentally ill and in attack mode, or not?  Or was it male aggression responding to male aggression, and actively subduing the person until police made it to the scene? 

Inquiring minds need to know what really happened back there.  No judgments, just facts.  Report 'em, ma'am?  Because, hate to say it, but I don't think we've seen the end of this.

And I bet Dave Chappelle, who really took a physical hit he did not see coming, went home sore that night, and really felt it the next morning...**

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*even it did, and he was acting solo, so what?  Your entertainment for the night took a hit and was assaulted.  Ticketholders would simply have to accept what happened and go home without seeing the show.  Like a fire at a restaurant.  (No meal is owed you.)  I don't even think you'd owe Chappelle fans a refund necessarily, as it wasn't a cancellation without cause.  But that's another legal issue, for another day.  Contracts:  would the audience members be owed a refund? 

(I would think no, like you would not be obligated to refund the admissions price to concert-goers if the entertainment on stage wisely called off an oversold performance where crowd control issues had people surging to the front, resulting in crush deaths.  You get to go home alive, but no compensation because the show did not go on.  That sets a poor incentive for the entertainer to err on the side of continuing the performance. But caveat:  I'm not a contracts attorney offering legal advice here.)

** Which only make me think more that Chappelle should not have been permitted to go back onstage and speak with his adrenaline up.  It's like when cops on a high-speed chase finally stop the suspect:  bad things can happen that normally might not if a more physically uninvolved officer is on scene too, and those involved in the earlier incident (the chase; Chappelle's assault) are not needed and are able to step aside and cool down.