“They Call Him Internet Guy” - Dave Chappelle Dismisses Charlie Kirk
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Summary
Dave Chappelle is wrong about Charlie Kirk. He's wrong about MLK. And he's wrong because Charlie Kirk was a monster in a social media culture that thrives off social media. And to dismiss him as some internet influencer is naive.
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Do you want to go with what Dave Chappelle said about Charlie Kirk?
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Can you play the clip about what Dave Chappelle said about Charlie Kirk?
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Like, Colin Kaepernick, with all due respect, give me an effing break.
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The guy whose career went to shit, so he was like,
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And started hating on white people and his parents are adopted white.
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They said, Charlie Kirk is this generation's Martin Luther King.
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We want to give you guys a promotion on David Shepard.
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Because Charlie Kirk is a motherfucking internet personality.
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No, by design, fundamentally, he can't function like Dr. King.
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Internet niggas are negative because they have to be.
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Because nobody will engage them unless they say shit that makes them upset.
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Well, Dave Chappelle is just purely wrong about Charlie Kirk.
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I mean, he's, in my opinion, the greatest comedian, certainly of our generation.
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Chappelle's show was completely groundbreaking 20 years ago, dealing with politics and race
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And to dismiss Charlie as just some internet person is, at the very least, uninformed, at
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Charlie Kirk was a monster, a giant in a political social culture that thrives off social media.
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He's not a social media influencer like some OnlyFans chick or some kid that's just doing
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He built a full-on coalition that helped Donald Trump win in 2024.
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So to dismiss that as some internet person is naive.
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I'm not going to condemn Dave Chappelle or say that he's wrong about everything.
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I don't know if you caught what he just did right there.
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By the way, him saying that he was internet and he was just spewing negative things,
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Charlie sat in front of college campuses and people all over the country and engaged
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So to compare, to say that, and Baji, yeah, Martin Luther King, it was Martin Luther King.
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And by the way, Dave Chappelle's another one of these guys that just has that victim mentality.
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At the end of it, he's like, man, we got to get this mother effing the orange man out.
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Like, he's falling into the, like, he was talking about, like, and I get the joke of it.
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Like, this, this, he got, you know, National Guard and here and here and in Washington and here and he got him in Memphis.
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Well, Memphis actually looks pretty good because, you know, I was there and it looked good because it was clean.
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I mean, he's, he's admitted, I know, I know that he's, he's, he's walking the line, but the whole, like, and again, wearing the shirt with Kaepernick on the back tells me everything I need to know about where you're at.
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As if, you want to talk about comparing him, what's the, like, symbolism about wearing that?
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And, I mean, not only is he wrong about Kirk, but he's wrong about Martin Luther King, too.
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He's painting Martin Luther King as if he walked on water and was holier than thou.
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Martin Luther King, not only, he had, like, a ton of extramarital affairs where he was cheating on his wife.
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He was alleged to have watched sexual assault take place.
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He was alleged to have done numerous plagiarism throughout his academic career.
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So, like, a lot of the stuff that he was saying and a lot of stuff that he had credit for, like, might have been BS.
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And he wasn't the person he, like, painted himself as, you know, like, where Kirk was, like, super Christian, super good guy.
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And you don't think if MLK was alive today, he'd be using the hell out of social media.
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Playing video games and, you know, saying what he's saying.
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But, by the way, my opinion, I want to go to the next story.
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Martin Luther King is a painting of a painting of him in my house that he's in.
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He's one of the only eight characters in that painting that I have.
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But, to me, Charlie Kirk is bigger than Martin Luther King.
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There's only about 4,200 hours of MLK speaking.
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Even if you go watch some of his documentary, if you type in some of the, just type in Dead Mentors as the painting.
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If you go look at some of his documentaries and what he's done, Dead Mentors.
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So, no, but to me, Charlie Kirk, what he did is a lot tougher.
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I wouldn't say much tougher because MLK, what he did at his time was tough.
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But Charlie Kirk made a massive, massive impact.
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But I just think Charlie's legacy is going to be bigger long-term than MLK's.
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I think Charlie's legacy is going to be not two times.
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Simply because there's more stuff that's documented with Charlie than there was with MLK.
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I don't know if Charlie's going to end up being bigger than MLK.
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Regardless to me, MLK, Charlie Kirk, some of the greatest Americans to ever live.
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You only try to assassinate the people who are the people moving the needle.
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Abraham Lincoln, JFK, what they try to do to Trump, MLK.
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So what I'm saying, our friend Brandon over here basically only listed the negative about MLK.
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Yeah, but he made him sound like he was perfect.
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But to only highlight the negatives of MLK is doing a disservice to MLK and the country.
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