Netflix employees stage walk-out over Dave Chappelle's comedy special The Closer

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Dave Chappelle received a lot of backlash following the release of his comedy special The Closer where he made a lot of explicit jokes about transgender people

Netflix employees have staged a walk-out today over Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special The Closer.

 

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He tried for 20 minutes of his very last special to make some kind of amends. That's a long time to try. His 6 special outro was to talk about it.

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