About the Chris Rock/Will Smith post…
You say that verbal violence is almost as bad as physical violence by why does there have to be violence at all? Everyone acts like Will’s only choices were to sit in silence or verbally/physical assault Chris. He could have approached him after the fact to explained the situation and asked for Chris to apologize to Jada either privately or publicly. He could have even pulled a Kanye and took the mic. That would have been a better approach imo. I’m not denying the joke was in bad taste but Will could have handled it better rather than letting his emotions get the best of him.
“Rather than letting his emotions get the best of him”
There. You know why his emotions got the best of him? Being a celebrity is hard. Your every move is on display. Every decision you make in your life is televised and commercialized as articles on social media. I can’t imagine the heavy toll that takes. The constant abuse that they can’t escape, either on social media, television or outside of the internet. It’s insane. The price to entertain others is tainted and full of entitled people who believe you should behave this way because they would believe it would have been the better choice.
Sure he could waited and taken the joke like a good boy. It’s easy to analyze and say after the fact what someone should have done. However, the slap was a statement of self defense. Violence WILL ALWAYS EXIST. I think it’s utterly bunkers, obnoxious and frankly quite entitled to say “why should there be violence at all???”.
I should have also mentioned previously, especially with the recent actions of The Academy on banning Will for ten years, that violence is also systematic. It’s why POC and people with disabilities/on the spectrum understood and sympathized with his actions. Chris’ actions not only stigmatized black women’s hair but the stance of a woman being bald in society as well, no matter the reason. A light slap is quite frankly an understated reaction to an off script joke.
People are only against and scared of (defensive) violence when it means that it’s use is a chance their actions that cause harm on others will be quickly corrected. It’s a good use to break one’s ego and cause shock/sense on the harm they are causing. A lot of the freedoms we enjoy exist because people were willing to use violence.
The fact that so many (white) wannabe peacemaker people are taking opportunities to make this about themselves, especially by annoyingly spreading toxic positivity or saying how their “children being shocked” caused them “trauma” and pitting all the cause on Will proves us once more that we as a society have a long way to go.
I’m going to assume this is also you as well. You calling it “abuse” is so disgusting. You’re also part of the problem. What can fuel the cycle of abuse is backing up the abuser and putting the (victim) defender in the same bracket as them.
Don’t compare being scared of calling someone a cunt because you don’t want the possibility of being smacked for it as “abusive”. It’s called consequences. There are context that matters so let’s not act obtuse and ignore them.
For others reading, simply don’t fuck with people. Don’t unnecessarily provoke them if you don’t want to face the consequences.
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