"I did resent that the Republican Party ran on transgender jokes. You know, I felt like they were doing a weaponized version of what I was doing. That's not what I was doing."
"Then here comes Lauren Boebert and she said, 'Can I get a picture?' And I had already taken 40 pictures. I didn't want to say no in front of everybody, but I didn't know the phrase 'I respectfully decline.'"
"So I just took the picture. And then she posted the picture before I could even get from there to the show and says something to the effect of, 'Just two people that know that it's just two genders.'"
"And then I lit her ass up for doing that. And she should never do that to a person like me."
Dave Chappelle has faced backlash for derogatory jokes about trans people, particularly in his 2021 Netflix special, The Closer. He criticized the Republican Party for using similar jokes in a weaponized manner. Chappelle recounted an incident with Lauren Boebert, where she used a photo with him to promote her views on gender. He expressed his discontent with how his image was politicized without his consent, emphasizing that he did not intend for his humor to be weaponized in that way.
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