Thank God the ‘attacker’ wasn’t a white man! We’d never hear the last of it and his career would be finished. We live in very interesting times, eh?!
Will Smith shouldn’t have done it, no question, and needs to be censured in some way but the colour of either man’s skin had honestly not occurred to me until I saw your post.
Why have you chosen to make this a race issue? Call that ‘Woke’ or whatever you fucking like mate, posts like that sicken me.
Big Willy obviously didn’t take too kindly to a joke about his wife’s alopecia but I’m not convinced this was the right course of action. That being said though…..it probably is what many would have done had their wife just been mocked in front of millions.
Naturally Twitter-folk are calling for assault charges and for Smith to be imprisoned for this.
Can’t believe it was a set up, but equally can’t get how you could be that angry to be moved to doing something like that, and then slap not punch someone.
On the assumption it wasn’t a set up (the sloppy punch thing looks a bit wet but the effing and jeffing looks genuine), this provides an interesting example of how our reactions have changed (or rather our “training” in increasingly PC times has evolved). The race thing is an utter irrelevance in this instance. But my reaction as a fifty something bloke went in the space of five minutes from “Good on ya Will” to “maybe should have taken it outside afterwards mate” to “not in front of the children” to “what a shame for him, he’s ruined his own big night doing something we all privately admit we’d have struggled not to do in the same circs” to “Heavens above I can’t condone violence of any kind, I hope he’s admonished (and Chris Rock too)” I got there in the end.
Pretty sad though that my first reaction is how much money they’ll both go on to make from it. They’ll now be the most in demand talk show guest for the next two years. Controversy ignites publicity and publicity is rocket fuel in their worlds.
Pretty sad though that my first reaction is how much money they’ll both go on to make from it. They’ll now be the most in demand talk show guest for the next two years. Controversy ignites publicity and publicity is rocket fuel in their worlds.
To be fair I think it's the talk shows that benefit most from having a Will Smith or Chris Rock on
Apparently Jada Smith has alopecia, so maybe Chris Rock could have been a bit more sensitive? Though Will does laugh at the "joke" initially.
If celebrities got offended and reacted like that every time a 'bad taste' joke was said, Ricky Gervais would've been laid out every time he presented the Golden Globes.
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Why have you chosen to make this a race issue? Call that ‘Woke’ or whatever you fucking like mate, posts like that sicken me.
Big Willy obviously didn’t take too kindly to a joke about his wife’s alopecia but I’m not convinced this was the right course of action. That being said though…..it probably is what many would have done had their wife just been mocked in front of millions.
Naturally Twitter-folk are calling for assault charges and for Smith to be imprisoned for this.
About the only vaguely interesting thing at this borefest.
Makes me think overall it must've been real. Think Smith wasn't too bothered by the joke but went up once he saw how upset his wife was about it.
Plus of course the swearing after, twice.
Maybe move to his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.
I actually find it quite nice to see some other news for a change!