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**I'VE HAD IT With Insensitive Gorgons Mocking Charlie Kirk's Death But I Cannot Believe DAVE CHAPPELLE**
I have had it. Absolutely had it. I have reached the limits of my patience with the insensitive gorgons who find humor in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The latest spectacle of moral degeneracy involves Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan of the *I've Had It* podcast laughing at a grotesque reference to killing Charlie Kirk all over again. They subsequently apologized. How very thoughtful. Apparently the realization that a murdered man's death is not a comedy routine requires public outrage and the sudden attention of departing advertisers.
But Dave Chappelle? Dave Chappelle of all people? That one stopped me cold.
During a performance at Madison Square Garden Chappelle reportedly told his audience that ever since Charlie Kirk was murdered he felt better. He acknowledged that he probably should not say such a thing publicly. And yet he said it. The audience laughed. Some applauded. A man celebrated for his extraordinary intelligence and uncompromising defense of artistic expression had apparently discovered an amusing connection between his personal happiness and another man's assassination.
Now understand something. I am an absolutist when it comes to comedy. I defend the right of comedians to offend. I reject the ridiculous notion that every offensive joke demands professional destruction or ritual public humiliation. And I have defended Chappelle precisely because he has refused to surrender to the perpetually outraged guardians of acceptable speech.
But defending someone's right to say something does not obligate me to applaud what he says.
There is a difference between confronting uncomfortable truths through comedy and expressing satisfaction over a political assassination. Charlie Kirk was a husband and father. He was a human being whose life ended violently in front of an audience. His children will grow up without their father. No political disagreement changes that reality.
And what troubles me most about Chappelle is that he should understand this better than almost anyone. He knows the dangers of public controversy. He understands the consequences of ideological hatred.
We are witnessing a culture increasingly incapable of distinguishing political opposition from personal annihilation.
You can despise Charlie Kirk's politics. You can ridicule his arguments. You can reject everything he believed.
But when another American's murder becomes the occasion for your happiness something has gone terribly wrong.
And Dave, I expected better from you.
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