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Interesting video of Carlin talking about who I assume is Andrew Dice Clay.

If we're going to talk about punching up and down in terms of power structures and discriminated people in American society, I'll note a sentence Chappelle said in The Closer I might be paraphrasing: "my problem is with white people."

On one hand, that can get into -phobias and -isms conversations like we've been having here already, right -- that sentence alone reads as discriminatory, and his general career could arguably support that notion. Pair that up with this conversation we've been having, and that becomes a trend and a narrative.

Also though, in this up/down perspective, Dave may have been intending to punch up in that way. I don't think he made the case cohesive and strong or even always fair, but there were themes of him tying the LGBTQ community to white people and that could be seen more as punching up.

I dunno if that latter angle is accurate for Chappelle's intentions. I do think he has an interest in punching up, activism, and changing power structures...but just because you punch up doesn't mean you can't also punch down.

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