Sticks & Stones is Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix comedy
standup special. It’s something that I
had no interest of watching in the first place.
Even though Chappelle is supposedly a legendary standup comic, I haven’t
been a fan. But just like his previous Netflix specials Deep in the Heart of Texas and The Age of Spin, I became
intrigued of watching Sticks & Stones
because of one sole reason: it triggered the SJW snowflakes.
After watching it, it was clear
that he sees himself mostly aligned with the left side of the political spectrum. But in a culture where the feelings of the few
are being allowed to trump over common sense and free speech, it’s refreshing
of him to dare be provocative, especially when in doing so, he highlights the
inconsistencies and absurdities inherent to his side’s worldview.
My favorite is the part about
abortion. First, he declares that men
should have no opinion about abortion; only women should – the whole “my body,
my choice” talking point. “Gentlemen,
that is fair,” he insists. Then once the
mostly cheering pro-abortion crowd is in the hook, he drops the bomb: "Ladies,
to be fair to us, I also believe that if you decide to have the baby, a man
should not have to pay. That is fair. If you can kill this motherf****r, I can
at least abandon 'em. My money, my
choice.” Indeed, if one is moral, then
the other should be moral, too. If one
is wrong, then the other is wrong, too (for the record, for me, both are
wrong.) It’s the same logic. And then the clincher: “And if I'm wrong,
then perhaps we're wrong. So, figure that s**t out for yourselves.” He doesn’t fully commit to it, but I feel
like he’s realizing that abortion is evil.
Unfortunately, most if not all pro-abortion people won’t follow that logic. They won’t think it’s a valid equivalency, for they now deny
that a fetus is a human being.
His bit about the LGBTQ community
– the “alphabet people”, as he calls them – being in a metaphorical car ride is
also hilarious and insightful. And at
the end, he dismantles the crux of transgenderism when he jokes about being a
Chinese person trapped inside a black man’s body, and validating it by simply stating, “This
is how I feel inside!” It’s a point that
I’m not unfamiliar with. But that should definitely give pause to an open-minded individual who has subscribed into the transgender logic, since it’s basically following
the same logic.
Other notable topics he touches
upon are suicide, school shootings, poverty-stricken whites who are struggling
with drug addiction, R. Kelly, the documentary Leaving Neverland and how he doesn’t believe Michael Jackson’s
accusers (this is the my least favorite stretch of the show), the recent controversies
surrounding fellow comedians Kevin Hart and Louis C.K., and the Jussie Smollett
hoax – which I felt he could’ve and should’ve pressed harder on. There’s also an epilogue afterward where he
has a Q&A session with the audience, in which he shared his thoughts on the
2020 presidential elections; some advice on doing comedy; a couple of anecdotes,
including one about a transgender named Daphne; and more.
All in all, Sticks & Stones hasn’t made me a Dave Chappelle fan yet. But it definitely made me laugh a couple of
times. And it’s also worth giving some
appreciation because it’s a testament that comedy has still not been killed by
political correctness – at least, not yet.
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