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Netflix suspends trans employee who criticized Dave Chappelle’s special ‘The Closer’

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The Closer.Chappelle has been heavily criticized for a number of jokes in the special, which released on Oct. 5, including saying he was “team TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) like author JK Rowling and calling gender “a fact.”“Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth,” Chappelle said. “That is a fact.”He also claimed to have punched a butch lesbian woman and said he doesn’t respect “newer gays,” calling them “too sensitive, too brittle.”Chappelle also commented on the controversy surrounding rapper DaBaby and his homophobic comments about HIV and gay people.

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