yla and wacky, don't okay. Rusty doesn't need me or anyone else to defend him but as usual, y'all are going overboard,
As for the special, I loved it and I'm glad I watched it. I didn't watch his previous two full length specials, I did watch the George Floyd one, because of the backlash. I'm going to go back and watch those but I'm guessing the previous backlash was merited because he wasn't as introspective as he was with this special. BTW, I did find the trans stuff funny, when he was going for the funny. I do think the trans and gay jokes don't hit the way the black & white jokes do because we're all uncomfortable when he tells them, just as we would be of a white person told the same race jokes as he does.
But here's some rationale for why it's kind of offensive (that I didn't necessarily pick up on watching straight through)
https://twitter.com/RaquelWillis_/status/1446516496746913812
https://twitter.com/RaquelWillis_/status/1446516499141824513
Did I hear a different stand up than this woman did? The entire point of the story of his comedian friend was that she demanded that Dave take her seriously. Did Raquel miss that part of the story Dave told?
Also that story is no where close to the same thing as the "my black friend" trope. The my black friend thing is mocked because having a black friend is used as a stand in for speaking to and about black people about black experiences. Dave was speaking about conversations and experiences with Daphne that informed some of his thoughts and feelings. He didn't use Daphne as a superficial device to ignore or deflect.
Also I went back and listened twice and he did not say that the trans people on twitter led to Daphne's demise, he said it didn't help, which, duh. Yes, he did say twitter wasn't real place, he was speaking about himself. That doesn't mean everyone feels that way, again, duh.
There was nothing outside of an outright apology and no jokes that would have satisfied Raquel and that's fine, I think I get why. Reasonable people can disagree.
