Chris Rock’s Mic Drop: The Comedian’s Latest Netflix Special Proves He’s Out of Touch

Whitney Alese
ZORA
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3 min readMar 8, 2023

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Chris Rock at the end of his Netflix Special, “Selective Outrage”

“I was raised!” Chris Rock yelled into the microphone. “I was raised that you don’t fight in front of White people!” His Netflix special, “Selective Outrage” ends.

I sat mouth agape. Sure, I expected Chris to have things to say about “the slap,” when Will Smith stormed the stage in the middle of Chris Rock’s Oscar…

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Whitney Alese
ZORA
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Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.