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Even Dave Chapelle can't make the left tolerate Elon Musk free speech (fail style) - C C - Dec 14, 2022
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/even-dave-chapelle-cant-make-liberals-tolerate-elon-musk-free-speech
EXCEPT: . . . But what Dave Chapelle has managed to do, and he is arguably unique among not just entertainers, but public figures in general, is to make many progressives so comfortable with him, that they give him a pass nobody else gets.
His blue, cool, Gen X distance from it all generates an energy of, dare I say, safety, in which a progressive audience can let loose some long suppressed mental and emotional threads.
That is, right up until Elon Musk enters.
When Musk took the stage [...] What Chapelle was doing was what he always does, telling, or in this case showing, his audience something they are not comfortable with, but which is important...
Much like Chapelle’s audience, the liberal left media has spent the past two weeks booing Musk rather than listening to anything he has to say.
Of course, the recent revelations about how Twitter suppressed COVID-19 information, or the Hunter Biden laptop story or banned Donald Trump, or tamped down conservative speech are newsworthy. But instead, these so-called journalists ignore it all claiming that the real story is some alleged rise in hate speech on the website. A claim backed up by fewer facts than the Easter Bunny.
Just as Twitter itself manufactured standards to silence conservative speech rather than apply actual standards, so too the liberal left media is inventing reasons every day to ignore what is almost certainly the biggest story in the history of social media.
What is so deeply insidious about all of this is that in order to do so they have consistently smeared Musk, who until about 10 minutes ago was a liberal darling for his work on climate-saving electric vehicles. Now CNN howls absurdly that he is normalizing Nazis.
These mendacious journalists have worked their audiences into such a frenzy that those audiences literally shouted Musk down even as their beloved cultural icon, Dave Chapelle urged openness to Musk’s ideas.
On Monday morning it was left wing Twitter accounts – no they haven’t all fled to Canada or wherever since Musk took over – who were mocking Musk for the crowd’s rough treatment. But watching the video, seeing the events unfold from outside the cauldron of outrage, the crowd looks ridiculous, childish even.
If Musk is to be successful in his efforts to educate the American people as to exactly how they are being manipulated by social media and tech giants, then he will have to find a way to overcome and win over the booing crowd. This is no mean feat... (MORE - missing details)
Chappelle Responds To Boos With Elon Musk: "You Can Boo All You Want.." ... https://youtu.be/0QR6Xuve7Kc