Chappelle comments trigger Netflix staff
About 100 people protested near Netflix Inc’s headquarters on Wednesday against the streaming pioneers decision to release comedian Dave Chappelles 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-story Sunset Boulevard building in Los Angeles.
Demonstrators held signs proclaiming, Trans Lives Matter and Team Trans and chanted slogans like “What do we want? Accountability, When do we want it? Now.”
Netflix staff were outnumbered by members of the public, but the precise number was not clear. Netflix employees had called for a walkout.
Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos acknowledged in interviews before the walkout, “I screwed up in how he spoke to Netflix’s staff about Chappelles special, The Closer.