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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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No not detain just that they didn't know what was happening so I was surprised to see no one try to go up and stop it. Or stop it from getting worse in case Chris reacted in return
Holy shit I thought I would have to wait a couple days for this lmao
I had the same thought. But then I remembered.
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Another one of those takes that drives me nuts. What dollar amount in a bank account suddenly makes a person innocuous to mental and physical strife?
That's similar to another post earlier in the thread that was like, "If any non-celebrity did this, people would be calling the police."
What fucking world do you live in where anyone would call the police over a slap. Most people aren't calling the police if two dudes get into an actual fight.
Lol.
Anyway era posters are extremely sheltered. Yall won't last a day past the last Starbucks in your suburb.
It's important to note that this whole thing seems to mostly be building on existing beef between Chris Rock and Will & Jada. He's joked about them before, occasionally on the Oscars stage - and it wouldn't be hard to imagine that this is why Smith took this whole thing so personally. It's not just a random standup making a shit joke - it's somebody who does seem to have it out for her to some extent.
It's reasonable to say there isn't anyone else Smith would have slapped for the exact same joke.
Quoted for visibility, because phewwwww.
Reading Era like a book.
did they all get suited up in just an hour to record this?
Had to go back and re-think my shitty hot take. This sucks all round. I'm sympathetic to both sides. Will is going through something deeply personal and took it out on stage with Chris. That's unfair. I understand the reaction but recognize it, but it's a lot. Chris, conversely, whatever you think of the joke, had to suck up the slap and hold any of his emotion in. He had to keep dancing for his check and he had to stifle any reaction he might've had to hit back. Then I had to think if Will Smith would've done that to ANYBODY else. Forget his physical and clout advantage over Chris, but would he have done that to even the most meek of white presenters on stage? I'm going to guess not. The reasons why are obvious. He bullied Chris because he knew that he could and that he, Smith, could withstand it. Now removing clout and Hollywood and all of that, what we have is Will Smith embarrassing and emasculating another black dude on live TV because of his feelings, and Rock had to suck it up because of a multitude of reasons.
For an awful and insensitive and terrible joke...
That could've been handled between men in a conversation off stage, off camera.
Nah, wasn't a good look for anybody and nobody wins. Will is clearly going through something personal as per his speech, and I *totally* feel him. That speech hit me.
On the other hand? He bullied Chris Rock because he could. That sucks.
For an awful and insensitive and terrible joke...
That could've been handled between men in a conversation off stage, off camera.
Nah, wasn't a good look for anybody and nobody wins. Will is clearly going through something personal as per his speech, and I *totally* feel him. That speech hit me.
On the other hand? He bullied Chris Rock because he could. That sucks.
Doubt a stranger saying it would change much. Let alone warrant a slap.
"Oh, shit. Oh, shit! You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'!? HANG ON I GOT A SUIT LOOK JUST LIKE HIS!!!"
I guess I shouldn't be, but seeing the way Will's whole family gets talked about I just assumed people would have even a slight bit of sympathy, especially in light of what Chris Rock said. It was one of those moments where I thought "Surely THIS can at least be understood by everyone." I was completely wrong.
It is very curious to me that the people dogging Will Smith for overreacting and handling it wrong are also the same people horribly upset by an entire situation that they can't even begin to fathom the emotions of, involving two people who have both seemingly already moved on from it.
Yep if this happen in other places chances it would have not end like that .
Most people don't just take a slap to the face even if they in the wrong .
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Or could you imagine if it was Bruce Willis who slapped Chris rock for the same joke? I wonder if the takes here change?
It does feel a bit targeted, right? And that's why context matters a bit.
Of course
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Just a few thoughts...
Firstly--from a legal perspective--I don't believe there was a fear or apprehension of receiving bodily harm on the part of Chris Rock, so a case could be made for Battery rather than Assault (but I'm just being pedantic lol: colloquially, most would describe what occurred as "assault").
But in regards to the incident, itself, I must admit to having a somewhat gleeful baseline reaction to witnessing a guy slap the shit out of someone for mocking his wife's baldness: it's the sort of rousing behavior that can propel audiences behind certain archetypes in movies, television, etc... But in the real world? I'm just not willing to fully commit to the idea of championing violence as a response to surface-level insults. I feel like that sort of principle could easily be used to excuse any number of physical altercations, and that's just not something which I'm comfortable aligning myself with.
Firstly--from a legal perspective--I don't believe there was a fear or apprehension of receiving bodily harm on the part of Chris Rock, so a case could be made for Battery rather than Assault (but I'm just being pedantic lol: colloquially, most would describe what occurred as "assault").
But in regards to the incident, itself, I must admit to having a somewhat gleeful baseline reaction to witnessing a guy slap the shit out of someone for mocking his wife's baldness: it's the sort of rousing behavior that can propel audiences behind certain archetypes in movies, television, etc... But in the real world? I'm just not willing to fully commit to the idea of championing violence as a response to surface-level insults. I feel like that sort of principle could easily be used to excuse any number of physical altercations, and that's just not something which I'm comfortable aligning myself with.
I play soccer on Sundays and in my game yesterday, two dudes got tangled up and frustrated and they both full arm extension shoved each other and were both ready to throw hands. The rest of us broke it up quickly and after the game they shook hands and did the typical "my bad about earlier" thing. People act like a slap or a shove is going to land somebody in JAIL and it's absolutely hilarious.
First thread in a while where I've seen some wild ass takes from both sides. From "Will needs to be in prison for attempted murder, he's mentally ill" to "you're white if you don't think physical assault was Will's best response here".
At least the memes are funny. At the end of the day, it's 2 millionaires attacking each other on television.
At least the memes are funny. At the end of the day, it's 2 millionaires attacking each other on television.
This is silly. What happened doesn't have anything to do with the real world. Jada and will Smith are some of the wealthiest and powerful people in Hollywood. He has a lot of responsibility and now just looks like a damn fool blaming what he did on the devil like an 8 year old.
True, but I think this is closer to rushing the stage at a standup show than slapping someone at a party or a bar. I've seen both, but the latter is way more common, and I'm not sure that I have seen the former where everyone didn't think the dude was acting like an idiot.
Though for real I don't think any of this is a big deal, everyone involve is rich and they will all be fine, and all those big takes are just standing in the way of the memes.
The worst thing to come out of it is the terrible cringey jokes we'll get about it in the next oscars.
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