I doubt they'll do that. It feels like they need to do something to show they don't condone what he did, but that seems excessive.
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He lost his cool but then so would many others if someone poked fun at their wife who has a medical condition. Shouldn’t have happened but I think the reaction has been silly.
Of course, because the internet.
I thought Chris Rock was way out of line. I like edgy comedy and don't get offended by much, but there is a principle of not punching down.
If you know someone well enough you can get away with teasing them about something like this, if you know they've got a sense of humour about it. But that was clearly not the case here so it was out of order. But yes, all fluff and nonsense really.
I knew it.
And this is why we are in the shit we are in and this is why bad men prosper.
I wondered what the shit was going on when I started seeing this bullshit break out across just about every sober platform I review. At first I thought Will Smith had smacked some media dick in the nut. Even then, so what?
The I saw the word Oscars. That was a real head slap in itself.
We could be lost, there may not be enough collective intelligence to find the way back.
So you are in support of violence now it seems
Smith used the tools at his disposal his fists. Imagine if he was the ruler of a nation and the ruler of the neighbouring country made fun of his wife. What do you think he would do next?. Yeah that's right. Invade.
Like I said before it's sad because all it does is reinforce racial tropes.
Well its not yet hypocrisy because no action has yet been taken against Smith. He has apologised to Chris Rock now. So at least he has realised or been made to acknowledge that what he did was wrong. I doubt it was the academy that made him apologise. More likely senior black figures like Denzel Washington or Samuel L Jackson. i would hope so anyway
Fine, potential hypocrisy then.
Denzel Washington emerges from all this with a lot of credit.
It's all nonsense, after the predictable social media arc it'll all be forgotten in a few weeks.