Fans of the show Dear White People respond to the news that its showrunner Jaclyn Moore said she will boycott Netflix over Dave Chappelle’s newest special.
Lol, today I learned the showrunner behind ‘Dear White People’ is a white person. pic.twitter.com/yFSF1Wi3Vm
— Sophia (HaRMful SaTiRe) Narwitz (@SophNar0747) October 8, 2021
Wait a fuckin minute. The show “dear white people”, which is supposedly about black ppl’s struggles & has a 90s soundtrack has a lead producer that is non-black???
— Dump Truck (@ta__mka) October 8, 2021
& wants to boycott a black man??? https://t.co/q2w3xTAgsZ
no wonder i couldn’t get into dear white people. now it makes sense. pic.twitter.com/rDgRCLcfif
— fckn it up like oopsie-daisiee 💅🏾 (@lovergalorer) October 8, 2021
Me watching the Dear White People/Chappelle twitter discourse pic.twitter.com/uKovyq1SMV
— Julio y El Santo vs Las Mujeres Vampiro (@Julio_DA) October 8, 2021
Ignoring the Chappelle part for a second. The person running Dear White People is White? That isn't surprising. If you ever want to go down a rabbit go look up the "Screenwriters" of some of your favorite black movies. https://t.co/7ymMtfTRq0
— Robert Littal BSO (@BSO) October 8, 2021
A white person was running Dear White People and is about to boycott the platform over a black comic. This was literally the point of his jokes. https://t.co/bNNXMu29hA
— 𝑨𝒍𝒊 🐍 (@jordanfibonacci) October 8, 2021
Weird how the white show runner for a predominantly black show about black issues called Dear White People is cancelling a black man for saying that offending a LGBTQ+ person is worse in people's eyes today than killing a black person pic.twitter.com/iC4rQq0wS8
— Poe's Law 🇷🇺: 3.33 You can (not) redo (@LivingScribe) October 8, 2021
That explains why dear white people felt like a huge parody ( I figured it was) but the parody part was overly done…like a mockery almost. Did anyone else get that? pic.twitter.com/Z08ZEw69TU
— Spiffy Tiffy (@Tiffydabomb) October 8, 2021
The showrunner for Dear White People is…white? That makes no sense. Talk about taking a job that definitely should have gone to a minority… https://t.co/QKFVutzW40
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) October 8, 2021
Moore, who is a trans woman, told Variety that Chappelle is a “brilliant goofy comedian” but that the jokes in his recent special, The Closer, “felt different.” She Tweeted that she won’t work for Netflix again “as long as they keep promoting and profiting from dangerous transphobic content.”
