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Oscars Launch Formal Review of Will Smith After Chris Rock Slap (Read Staff Post)(Update: Smith apologizes)
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Of course. Needless to say, my post history on Era is far from a comprehensive history of everything that I discuss or care about.
Willinium was actual the height of the world's golden age in which we have lived up until now, welcome to the post-slap decline.
Good on Will. You fuck up, you apologize, and then move on. Unfortunately for him comedians are gonna roast him for a long time.
This may have been discussed, but is it known whether Chris Rock is the one who wrote the joke?
the irony of you declaring this for your self but lamenting the opposite sentiment about others in the macro
You have 16 separate posts on this subject. And you're doing all this grandstanding for what?
My understanding was that it was off the cuff in the moment, not a written joke.
Fair point.
I intended to only post once today. But I did feel the need to respond to the replies.
And yet you're here concern trolling and thread whining that people are giving this too much airtime in lieu of more important issues. Surely you can see how hypocritical you are being right now, and might want to make better use of your time.
I remember a great quote I read recently, "The way you talk about other people and the world doesn't really say anything about the world. Instead, it reveals what kind of person you are."
Its so true for this topic, which is pretty simple yet so polarizing. AI's could probably infer a LOT about people's personalities based on what they think about this situation, we are extremely predictable probably when you correlate a few simple data points like this.
He's very fortunate he gets to fuck up, apologize, and move on. Most average people that fuck up this hard have a criminal record. You know, consequences.
Uhhh, yeah, that image sits uneasy with me. I'm not concerned about the respectability angle of it though. Just hate seeing one brother (especially of that pedigree) put hands on another over some trivial shit in front of that large of an audience. Maybe it shouldn't bother me (and at first it didn't) but now I'm like, damn, he a real [expletive] for that. Especially when his actions are being framed as "protect black women" all over social media. Please, that is not "protecting" your lady. Fuck around and slap somebody like that in everyday life if you want to. You'll find out real quick. Especially as a black man.
Maybe leave the punishment up to the person that got slapped? Chris Rock doesn't want to press charges.
No. Only the highest trending topic on certain media platforms matter. If your topic isn't at the top of the front page of Etcetera I ain't interacting with it.
Most? IDK I've seen a lot of people get slapped in my lifetime and there weren't any criminal records let alone charges involved.
We won't be talking about this silly shit a week or so from now anyway so it's whatever.
you not concerned about the respectability cause you have no shame
Most people who slap someone have a criminal record? Do you hear yourself?
Seriously. Trying to get all suit and tie to talk down to the "pleebs" like they simply must work at McDonalds if they think someone can get slapped at work is laughable. Corporate HR is more likely to cover shit up and make it go away quietly than any other institution.
I've personally seen heinous shit like attempted date rape swept under the rug and handled in arbitration, with no jobs lost.
I've been on the internet for the last 24 hours straight, and haven't seen a single Will Smith meme, or story, outside of my duties as an Era moderator. I don't know what's going on with Kanye and Kim either.
The shit just doesn't matter to me. I am literally unplugged from celebrity news, don't tell me it's impossible to avoid. Click 'Not Interested" a few times and it does wonders, I mean that with zero sarcasm.
A person getting slapped for disrespecting a man's wife is like the last thing I could possibly give a single teaspoon of care for right now. It happened on TV? Did that set a good example or a bad one? Who knows?
No, they don't. These altercations take place all the time without people being arrested much less charged with anything.
If this is the situation that you want to make a larger remark about regarding society's ills, to literally say that the social media fervor is a sign of that things are going downhill, beyond the fact people are simply terminally online, you do you. In general, I do my best not to let non-Black people's opinions of Black individuals matter all that much to how I feel about a given situation, especially if those individuals are white. We're human too and we deserve the freedom to fuck up, to get emotional, and to get checked, without people making every single instance some example of the White Man's Burden. We don't exist here to justify ourselves to people who obviously could not give a flying fuck about us, as exemplified by most people's post histories here.
I think that saved him, everyone aimed their sights on Will since then.
Also his ticket sales jumped since the morning.
I am also curious how people reconcile this belief that only the rich ever gets away with assault, and that such behavior would likely earn you a criminal record outside of Hollywood, and yet we follow the gaming industry where much more anonymous, much less successful white folks get away with outright sexual assault on the daily with the repercussions most of the time being a goddamn office shift.
Yes the rich and famous are generally privileged. That's not a shock.
Chris Rock "hulking" against Will Smith? Ehhh I dunno about that. Smith could most likely knock Rock out if he wanted to
Let me guess, news.com.au or its localised State sites?
Half their stories are social media BS so not a good example.
I mean I'm not an expert but if streakers wind up with charges I'd imagine a normal person jumping on stage and slapping a performer would net you *something*.
Like probably community service and a court date and not much else... But like it's gotta be some kind of minor booking I'd imagine
ABC. The red alert banner was Will Smith's apology this morning. I probably vented my frustration with it in the wrong way, but needless to say it was disappointing as that banner is generally reserved for the Ukraine-Russia liveblog that I have been watching intensely for weeks.
Where a lot of the disagreement is here is that many of us don't find what happened here trivial. Thats the sticking point. To many it seems it is, but I don't find it trivial at all, and Im not the only one.
And this goes both ways. Go out in the real world and insult a man's wife like that for the second time in front of a large scale audience and you will find out real qui...
Well, I mean, he did find out didn't he?
I'll say this. I think you are a hell of a lot more likely to get the fire slapped out of you for repeatedly disrespecting on the streets than you are on stage in front of millions. So the 'everyday life' angle doesn't really move me in this scenario. If will slapped his ass here, he definitely would have done it on the corner 😆
Idk how the mods do it man I'd be banning the fuck out of some of you.
Decline of Society - do hard time for a slap.
Some of you are so detached from reality and way too online
Jesus H
Decline of Society - do hard time for a slap.
Some of you are so detached from reality and way too online
Jesus H
I'm losing steam, actually. Bout to tag out for the night and do some artwork.
Literally just went to ABC and their news section has a banner at the top covering the Ukraine war. Had to scroll quite a bit on my phone to see the first Will Smith article. You really blew this "THEY'RE ONLY COVERING CELEBS! SOCIETY IS DYING" bullshit out of proportion.
They are obviously taking about routines and bits, things that are repeated and honed as part of a performance. He's not touring the country with that GI Jane routine.
between today and yesterday i had about 7 times where I had a post typed up, and just decided to just delete it and do something else.
If anything it has reconfirmed that a lot on this forum and me have been raised VERY differently.
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