Dave Chappelle closes career with "space jews" joke

[yankeedoodle]

Dave Chappelle jokes about world-conquering 'Space Jews' in new Netflix special
https://www.jta.org/2021/10/06/culture/dave-chapelles-jokes-about-world-conquering-space-jews-in-new-netflix-special

(JTA) — Dave Chappelle was well aware that his latest Netflix standup comedy special was going to bring him a storm of criticism online. That's likely why he starts it by saying that it will be his last standup special for a while.

In "The Closer," released Tuesday, the longtime provocateur crosses lines that for most celebrities lead to pop culture suicide in 2021.

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Then he turns to Jews, saying UFO videos gave him an idea for a movie.

In my movie idea, we find out that these aliens are originally from earth — that they're from an ancient civilization that achieved interstellar travel and left the earth thousands of years ago. Some other planet they go to, and things go terrible for them on the other planet, so they come back to earth, [and] decide that they want to claim the earth for their very own. It's a pretty good plotline, huh? I call it "Space Jews."

After the joke gets only a little applause, Chappelle says, "All right, it's gonna get worse than that, hang in there."

Whether the joke is a Zionist allegory or a bit about world domination, NPR critic Eric Deggans called it antisemitic.

"[Chapelle] knows reviewers like me will quote the joke and criticize him for it, which I am. I don't really care what point he's trying to make; a joke which sounds like anti-Semitism gets a hard pass from me," Deggans wrote.

Others on Twitter agreed.

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[yankeedoodle]

There was a second Space Jews joke that wasn't included on the video:

"There was a Black man who was in South Carolina during slavery who somehow got granted his freedom by his so-called master. And when he master granted him his freedom, he also gave him a plot of land. Now it turns out this brother was brilliant. He had a good eye, good knack for farming. And he farmed this plot of land very successfully and made a lot of money. And this is where the story gets crazy. When he got all that money... this n**** bought some slaves. Have you ever heard this before? This is a true story. Not only was he a slave owner, he became a slave breeder, and employed tactics that were so cruel, even white slave owners were like, "Yo, my man!" He was a wild dude, but he did it just because that's what successful people did at the time, and he just wanted to be down. What a f*cking tragedy. How can a person that went through slavery perpetuate the same evil on a person that looks just like him? It's mind blowing. And, shockingly, they're making a movie about him. Ironically, it's called "Space Jews."
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