About 100 people have protested near Netflix's headquarters against the streaming pioneer's decision to release comedian Dave Chappelle's new special, which they say ridicules transgender people?
Netflix staff members, transgender rights advocates and public officials gathered on a sidewalk outside a Netflix office blocks away from the company's main 13-storey Sunset Boulevard building in Los Angeles.
"It was important to shift the focus to the people [who] sign the cheques, because Dave Chappelle doesn't sign cheques. Netflix does," Preston said.
"If we have companies like Netflix, who aren't listening to their employees, who are forcing their employees to participate in their own oppression, that's unacceptable.".
Critics say The Closer attacks the transgender community, but Netflix says the stand-up act is "an important part of our content offering".
Terra Field — a Netflix senior software engineer who identifies as a transgender woman on her Twitter account — posted a thread, saying the Chappelle special attacked the transgender community "while trying to pit us against other marginalised groups".
I think Dave Chappelle, a funny person, needs to understand a little more about the jokes he's making and how they can affect people," he said.
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