Spoiler alert: everyone involved in this is awful.
According to BoundingIntoComics:
Following the release of Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special, The Closer, the LGBTQ+ community took offence at his jokes about transgender individuals, accused him of transphobia, and even organised a walkout to protest both the streaming giant and the comedian himself.
The person behind the Netflix walkout in support of the individuals who felt “attacked” by Chappelle was transgender activist Ashlee Marie Preston, and recently unearthed tweets suggest that the organiser is nothing more than a pandering hypocrite.
Thanks to a series of tweets originally compiled by Twitter user @machineiv and brought to widespread attention by independent video creator and journalist Matt Orfalea, we have solid evidence of Preston throwing around homophobic and racial slurs on social media.
“The protest accusing comedians of LGBT phobia, hate speech, & violence is led by Warren surrogate who threatened violence against an ‘ass f—k boy’ ‘d—k rider’, banished ‘that f—t f—er’, and bragged of performing actual violence on ‘this Asian b—es head.’” wrote Orfalea, sharing a sizeable amount of damning screenshots Preston’s own Twitter account.
