Dave Chappelle Gets Standing Ovation Amid Netflix Special Controversy: “If This Is What Being Canceled Is, I Love It”

The thing about comedy discussions, which this entire thread falls afoul of is the message problem in linguistics. 1. My context. 2. My syntactic message. 3. My semantic message. 4. Your context. 5. Your perception of my context. 6. Your belief of my semantic message.

Each individual has a strong belief about the meaning that will be incredibly different for each depending upon interpretation of context and the context of reception. So there won’t be a medium of shared truth no matter how many interpretations are shared, so what is the point? Maintain and preserve whatever values and beliefs you have, laugh if you want, don’t if you want, consider that we cannot fully share those that reach a different understanding of his material. Our local actions and behaviour influence our world and situation far greater than media does, so if it’s change you want, be it.

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