Chapter NineInternal Communication and Employee Activism: Netflix's Dave Chappelle Woes and Perspectives from the Field
Arunima Krishna, Raymond L. Kotcher, and Donald K. Wright
Introduction
On October 20, 2021, Netflix employees staged a walkout from the company's headquarters in Los Gatos, CA, to protest comedian Dave Chappelle's recent Netflix special and the company's handling of complaints against it (Paul, 2021). Chappelle's special, which included jokes about transgender people and a reference to himself as “Team TERF,” or trans-exclusionary radical feminists, which refers to people who argue that people's biological sex at birth, especially women, cannot be changed, had been criticized by many, including ...
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