Even if I watch it again I might not be sure of this: did Will Smith initially laugh - while Jada immediately looked unhappy - then he looked at her and decided it wasn't funny?
Even if I watch it again I might not be sure of this: did Will Smith initially laugh - while Jada immediately looked unhappy - then he looked at her and decided it wasn't funny?
Yeah, that seems to be what happened.
His acceptance speech for Best Actor not long after was pretty crazy too.
Will Smith attacked Chris Rock and then helped us all heal by explaining how tough God’s plan for him is.
Jokes aside, there's nothing admirable about this. Saying "God is testing me" and "love makes you do crazy things" like 10 minutes after assaulting someone isn't deep or profound. It's unhinged and it's textbook abuser language.
Had they just been offended and sat there in silence and dealt with it elsewhere at some later time, Chris Rock would have 100% come off as the villain in this. At the point of the punch, I considered them both jerks, relatively equally. After the subsequent ranting, I just thought Will Smith came off as unhinged. He tried to make apologies for it in his speech later, but it will be hard to like him again even as much as I did pre this.
Better response from Smith: step up on stage, share the mic: “Chris, friend, I know you don’t mean nothing by that but you and I are role models. Making jokes of a genetic issue isn’t cool, kids watch this show. And we need to be good men on stage. I need you to apologize.”
But instead, thug hits bigmouth. There’s the example kids get.
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Had they just been offended and sat there in silence ...
I'm thinking that Smith's toxic idea of manhood wouldn't let him just sit in silence. Which is the real tragedy here.
In my view, he needn't have remained passively in his seat. If he had got up and he and his wife had walked out, I am fairly sure that she would have felt loved and supported, and everyone would have understood. Hell, they might even have applauded the move. And think what a supremely powerful passive-aggressive gesture that would have become when his name was pulled from the envelope and everyone in the room, and the world, knew why he was missing his moment of triumph. That I would like to have seen.
Yes, that would have worked too. Made him seem like a quitter, but would have had, like 80% of the sympathy on his side rather than the maybe 25% he ended up with.
Dual Russian-American national Elena Branson stands accused of illegally pushing pro-Russia policies in the U.S. for nearly a decade. But, in all her time lobbying for Russian goals, she gave money to just one federal candidate: Tulsi Gabbard. https://t.co/DI0XITvvOj
Meanwhile on Russian state TV: Another translated clip of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard, introduced by state TV host Vladimir Soloviev as "Our girlfriend Tulsi."
After the clip plays, one panelist asks: "Is she some sort of a Russian agent?" The host quickly replies: "Yes." pic.twitter.com/VVNGmtjavU
It’s worth noting how success in business is implicitly assumed to justify what in any civilised society would be unacceptable means. That’s how toxic the American Dream is.
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