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Patton Oswalt Takes Photo With Dave Chappelle Then Apologizes, Angering Everyone

Patton Oswalt Takes Photo With Dave Chappelle Then Apologizes, Angering Everyone
Patton Oswalt Takes Photo With Dave Chappelle Then Apologizes, Angering Everyone

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Published January 03, 2022

Published January 03, 2022

Comedian Patton Oswalt had an exciting New Year's Eve, resulting in an ensuing controversy online over the weekend. After finishing a set of his own Friday night, longtime friend Dave Chappelle invited him next door to do a guest set at an arena. Afterward, they took a selfie together, which Oswalt posted on Instagram.

Due to Chappelle's ongoing controversy over alleged transphobic comments that sparked numerous protests at Netflix in 2021, the Instagram post was met with an outpouring of anger from many. Oswalt then posted a long-form apology on his Instagram, but it did little to stymie the backlash — both from those angered by the initial post and those who felt the apology was genuine and were upset that Oswalt would "flip on Chappelle."


A lot of people were upset with Oswalt's apology because they said it "reinforced the cancel culture stereotyping" that many supporters of Chappelle have been talking about for much of last year. This led to people making fun of this thinking and how Oswalt had to apologize for a selfie with Chappelle.


Despite the apology attempt, there were many who were not persuaded by it and instead had an increased fervor in their denouncement of Oswalt, which led to people posting about how they were either upset or ashamed of him, and how the apology itself did not do enough to repair the harm he did with the initial post.


Out of all the noise brought on by this, there were, of course, those who simply took the chance to make jokes of the whole debacle.



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