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Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at Oscars, says "keep my wife's name out your f***ing mouth"
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This thread has it all
-Will smith committing literal murder
-pearl clutching over Nazis
-Armchair assault experts
-Armchair psychologists
-low post accounts JAQing
-wild hypotheticals
-"wait this is fake, right?"
-Memes
This is thread is an all timer
-Will smith committing literal murder
-pearl clutching over Nazis
-Armchair assault experts
-Armchair psychologists
-low post accounts JAQing
-wild hypotheticals
-"wait this is fake, right?"
-Memes
This is thread is an all timer
The two biggest mind blowing things from this thread:
- That gamers on a forum would have the audacity to present their Chris Rock defense with some sort of implied understanding of the magnitude of shit Will and Jada get in their lives every single day.
- That anyone is more upset about Chris Rock being slapped than Chris Rock.
I feel sorry for you that laughing with the people throwing shit at you was your measure of confidence.
I couldn't get married before 2015 because of words on paper. Black people in this country are systematically disenfranchised by words and words on paper.
Words are as much violence in this country as guns.
I would understand people smacking people for being pro-Trump as this usually comes with racist, sexist, and transphobic views and rhetoric which does far more damage than Will's slap did to Chris. Words can be violence.
dude like more than 80% of men experience alopecia, why you acting like it's a deadly disease?
Gotta say Chris got what he deserved because I find it hard to believe he doesn't know about Jada's condition. A fucking low bow to say that to her in front of a global audience as if it was some cute joke.
Yeah we're shocked because these things don't usually happen on TV and we know these things always have some repercussions especially if someone doing the act is black.
But with that being said, again, many people are focusing on the slap, and not the things said to them as a simple "joke".
Don't tell people how they should react, instead teach people how to act right to begin with. Will's reaction makes sense while extreme, but Chris act of making that joke was classes, ablest and misogynist, and anti black while we're at it.
I mean he made a documentary called good hair for crying out loud and did this so he can fuck off.
Yeah we're shocked because these things don't usually happen on TV and we know these things always have some repercussions especially if someone doing the act is black.
But with that being said, again, many people are focusing on the slap, and not the things said to them as a simple "joke".
Don't tell people how they should react, instead teach people how to act right to begin with. Will's reaction makes sense while extreme, but Chris act of making that joke was classes, ablest and misogynist, and anti black while we're at it.
I mean he made a documentary called good hair for crying out loud and did this so he can fuck off.
Where is the line? Telling a truth that bothers me, get hit? What determines what is talking shit? Where is the line? "You went to far" for one person is a vast delta to another. Don't mention my mother, don't bring up my sister. Where is the specific demarcation point where words suddenly demand violence to anything from a rough push to a punch?
Also if you fucking laugh at the joke first, which Smith did, then get a look from your wife and then go slap out someone on worldwide tv, you're a bitch.
lol Jesus fuck no do you seriously need the differences between male pattern baldness and alopecia explained to you? Or how women are objectified 24/7 and how full-on hair loss will affect a woman so much worse than a man where baldness is common?
Or maybe celebrities have a point like any normal person where you can shit on them only so long before they decide "you know what, fuck you".
Will Smith and his wife have been taking continual shots for what seems like the better part of a couple of years now, I'm just saying you want to disrespect a grown man's wife over a medical condition, I'm not going to be all that surprised if someone catches a smack in the face.
Just because you're "famous" doesn't make you a robot.
Sports discussions aren't even in the same realm as making fun of a woman's illness that affects her hair, something heavily tied to identity and culture and is deeply personal. And it's the second time he's done it, too.
People need to take this self righteous shock elsewhere, I am not surprised that Will slapped him for this. At all. And it's not like he decked him, or injured him in any real way.
He slapped him and walked off, Chris' ego is more bruised than his face.
It's weird to me seeing people say this is toxic masculinity. Slapping people for saying shit about loved ones is a human thing, not a men thing. Have you guys seriously never seen a woman slap the shit out of someone for insulting a loved one?
What privilege ?
Im a queer skinny brown guy
Hun if i resorted to violence every time i got made fun of Id be dead by now
Not everyone on this site is a white dude
This is kinda false. Yes you don't see people slapping each other on the streets because people normally dont joke about each other's wives. I will guarantee you lot of brawls have had happened because some guy made fun of some other guy's wife, especially when she was suffering from a terrible medical condition.
I think Chris went over the line with that joke but so did Will for slapping him, both are in the wrong imo so they kinda cancel each other out?
Ironically yes. This moment will give him more talk than his season of Fargo.
How do the takes keep getting worse? Wtf?
It has been explained dozens of times now why Will Smith was likely laughing and then reacted. And calling him a bitch? Get the fuck out of here.
The joke was shit and not even funny but to react like he did is so ridiculous and trashy.
this is the oscar's. lame jabs at the audience's expense are historically part of the show's DNA and yet Smith is the first person in history to react like this.
It's tacky.
Call the police? Not even close. But we would handle it ASAP.
Well clearly for women it's far more rare and is a sensitive subject in comparison.
Where did I say any of that? They both impact your hair. Both are shitty jokes.
my dude I hate to tell you this but
chances are they've very likely witnessed or been a participant to this kind of situation already like a lot of other Americans
like it's why half of this thread is just baffled at people like you, because this type of situation and the surrounding societal context for it to be somewhat acceptable already broadly exists in a lot of America.
You best believe in an America where low grade socially acceptable violence has been normalized among large parts of the population for decades, if not centuries: you're already living in it!
In women it's broadly an autoimmune disease that makes you more susceptible to developing many other autoimmune diseases rather than male pattern
I don't appreciate having my misery minimized. Because I took it pretty fucking hard when I lost my hair. Basically lost a decade of my life.
Sure, pick that part to react to. What about the above part?
You have to understand that by teaching kids "violence isn't the answer", we just teach them to find other ways to put others down. Sometimes you need to use another method to get your point across. A method that is surprisingly effective.
Errr.... Are they not both just fucked genetics leading to baldness?
Like, is this wrong?
Edit: Whoops, that's a specific kind of alopecia
Honestly not a Nicaraguan Oscar party at my house goes by without at least two of my family members getting killed.
White folks loll
White folks loll
Like, dude got gently slapped, he didn't get cold cocked lol, there is such a massive fucking difference between what happened tonight and an actual fistfight (which is scary and messy and dangerous). The conflation of the two by the always online crowd is so telling.
No? I'm not talking about gun violence. In fact, if you want to keep this just to slaps fine. The end of my post is still correct because of a thing called context.
It's not possible to make a line.
But it's possible to say that a specific situation is on the "it's okay to slap a man" side of the line. Making fun of someone's medical condition is one of those situations.
Ah, there it is. The casual sexism.
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