Should comedians have boundaries?

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the-pi-guy said:

KLXVER said:

I dont really get the punching down bit. So are you saying Dave Chappelle is above trans people, so he shouldnt make jokes about them? or is it that he is famous and trans people are not, so he can only joke about people who are more or just as famous as him? 

Never really understood the punching down thing.

The problem isn't Dave Chappelle making fun of people less famous than him. 

The problem isn't "Dave Chappelle is above trans people".

He's a rich man hurting people for their struggles that he doesn't deal with or sympathize with. That's punching down.

Chapelle is mostly known for jokes about poor black people, while he himself is rich and famous. Why are his black jokes not punching down?