I’m saying that backstage, they are different people from the ones we think, both good and bad, and who those people are I cannot say, I just know from limited exposure to celebrity that reality as we think we see it is manufactured.
A lot of people you could never imagine being in the same room together will have dinner together or hang out and chill and it’s absolutely mind-blowing the first time you see it and realize what’s going on.
I’m not saying the performances of people like Chappelle aren’t sometimes vile and dangerous, it’s still a professional decision to “be that person” on stage, oftentimes it’s a well-planned professional decision involving agents, long-term plotlines and levels of social manipulation that we like to think we won’t fall for.
My issue (at the moment) isn’t with Chappelle but rather with those who enable, endorse, and platform him. Those who are happier drawing a paycheque than acting with integrity. It does not matter whether the bad things he does are done in character. It does not matter if the people who appear on-screen with him despise him off-screen.
I’m saying that backstage, they are different people from the ones we think, both good and bad, and who those people are I cannot say, I just know from limited exposure to celebrity that reality as we think we see it is manufactured.
A lot of people you could never imagine being in the same room together will have dinner together or hang out and chill and it’s absolutely mind-blowing the first time you see it and realize what’s going on.
I’m not saying the performances of people like Chappelle aren’t sometimes vile and dangerous, it’s still a professional decision to “be that person” on stage, oftentimes it’s a well-planned professional decision involving agents, long-term plotlines and levels of social manipulation that we like to think we won’t fall for.
My issue (at the moment) isn’t with Chappelle but rather with those who enable, endorse, and platform him. Those who are happier drawing a paycheque than acting with integrity. It does not matter whether the bad things he does are done in character. It does not matter if the people who appear on-screen with him despise him off-screen.