The left and the liberal media have no nuance on anything. They take anything they think can hurt someone they want to cancel and run with it, whether it’s true or not; rarely do they look into the deeper story or see all sides to an issue. It’s always and only about how information can be twisted to serve the narrative. We see that with the ‘controversy’ over Joe Rogan, and we also see it with their effort to cancel Dave Chappelle. Chappelle is another person that doesn’t fit within their accepted narrative and has been a target of their cancel culture efforts.
Chappelle was once again in their crosshairs on Thursday, when a video of him objecting to a housing development plan went viral. He was shown objecting to a housing development that was proposed in the Ohio village that he lives in, Yellow Springs, and would be near his property. He threatened to pull out the money that he was investing in the town, with plans to make an old firehouse into a restaurant and comedy club.
So what's going on with Dave Chappelle opposing affordable housing in Yellow Springs?
“I am not bluffing,” he said. “I will take it all off the table.”
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— Johnny Akzam (@JohnnyAkzam) February 9, 2022
‘You look like clowns — I am not bluffing,’ a visibly emotional Chappelle told the Yellow Springs Village Council at a town meeting on Monday night. ‘I will take it all off the table.’
The comedian also told the meeting: ‘I don’t know why the council would be afraid of litigation from a $24 million-a-year company while it’s out a $64 million-a-year company. I cannot believe you would make me audition for you.’
The $24 million a year company is the housing development company; the $64 million a year company is Chappelle’s.
Chappelle was joined by many other residents in objecting to the project, and the plan was voted down.
The left made the video go viral, and they attacked Chappelle because they claimed that he was objecting to affordable housing in the development plan.
Dave Chappelle, folks. This time he successfully stopped a village’s own affordable housing plan from being passed in Ohio. (h/t @samtrayter @kamilumin) https://t.co/pZTFzDbG8w
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 9, 2022
But the problem was that wasn’t exactly true.
The proposal the council voted on Monday night would have included 64 single-family homes, 52 duplexes and 24 townhomes with an additional 1.75 acres to be donated to the community for affordable housing to be built later, according to the Dayton Daily News.
After the council deadlocked on the proposal, the zoning allegedly reverted to what was previously approved: 143 single-family homes on the lot, with the homes starting at about $300,000.
In a small town of 3,700 people, that’s a huge increase. The high density was a big issue, and the fact that the citizens felt they weren’t sufficiently consulted.
Chappelle never objected to the “affordable housing” component. So to say that he did is just wrong. Also “1.75 acres” for a plan at some point in the future isn’t a housing plan now, and it’s tiny. Unless you’re talking about an apartment building, how many “affordable housing” units would you even get?
A source close to Chappelle told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that reports that he opposes an affordable housing component of the project are false.
The person said that Chappelle supports affordable housing, but believes the proposal put forward contains nothing of the kind.
‘The developers rushed the project, and got a sweetheart deal with council that was not properly vetted,’ the person said. ‘It doesn’t even include affordable housing.’
The source said the actor and comedian also opposed the original plan, so his objections didn’t have anything to do with “affordable housing.”
However, that didn’t stop a ton of people on the left from glomming onto the video and attacking Chappelle over his position. It also didn’t stop the reporting that didn’t dig into the deeper questions or recognize the plan didn’t have actual affordable housing in it, as we see here with this poor reporting from Rolling Stone magazine.
This is a lie. Dave Chappelle did NOT shoot down an affordable housing plan in his town. It was a tacky developer's plan for 140 homes (in the $400K range – i.e, NOT affordable housing). Plan happened to include a throw in of 1.7 acres (how generous!) of affordable housing https://t.co/wUfJvJc5uO
— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) February 10, 2022
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