Nonetheless, Rock and Chappelle have supporters who don’t suppose any of that is a lot of an enormous deal. Once I joined tradition critics Hunter Harris and Kathleen Newman-Bremang (who can also be the deputy international director at Unbothered) to discuss Rock’s particular on CBC Radio’s Commotion the Monday after the particular, Twitter customers mentioned our “feedback had been totally poisonous on a variety of ranges,” and took subject with the truth that we known as his old-school misogyny precisely what it was; stale. The truth that listeners had been extra upset that three Black girls critics known as out Rock for berating Jada Pinkett-Smith and putting his fury on a Black girl as a substitute of her husband (who was the one who really slapped Rock in case anybody forgot) is telling. Rock reverted to tiresome misogynoir that, at this level, is simply exhausting and repetitive – not provocative.
