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Originally posted by Modern Day Savage:

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Originally posted by goose5:

Thanks guys.

To be clear, I’m not security or LE or anything important. I’m just a video guy who sits in the dark backstage mostly playing on my phone until something breaks. But being around as long as I have and being fortunate enough to do a wide variety of live events as well as permanent installations, I’ve picked up a few things.

If they were going to stage this, Smith wouldn't have laughed at first, he would have been immediately appalled. The only fishy part to me is Rock's stance where he's perfectly posed to take a punch with his hands behind his back, that Smith rushing him doesn't evoke any defensive response or posture. Kind of like Robert Blake in the battery ads daring you to knock it off his shoulder.

As noted by a commentator on Jessie Waters show, Rock's head seems to move prior to the slap. This could just be a very quick reaction to a perceived assault, but strangely without any defensive reaction. In many highly scrutinized situations, there often seems to be reactions that seem odd or not what you'd predict. It could be that he's already decided, either by forethought or subliminally, that in this kind of situation, he's taking a punch, vs brawling on stage.

Smith's verbal threats post slap don't fit with a staged incident to me. Yes, he's a trained actor, but those seemed like genuine threats to me. What a privileged a-hole. I can't believe they let him carry on as normal after that.

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Originally posted by pbslinger:

The only fishy part to me is Rock's stance where he's perfectly posed to take a punch with his hands behind his back, that Smith rushing him doesn't evoke any defensive response or posture. Kind of like Robert Blake in the battery ads daring you to knock it off his shoulder.

He stood like that because he wasn't expecting to be hit, I'll bet you he thought Will Smith was going to get up there and yuck it up with him.

Jada Smith posted this on social media a few days before the incident:

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I don’t give two craps what people feel about this bald head of mine. Cuz guess what? I love it.

https://deadline.com/2022/03/j...e-oscars-1234989505/

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Originally posted by goose5:
I've read reports she cheated on him. They have an open marriage. On a recent CBS Sunday Show Smith said there has been no infidelity.

He's trying to use open relationship speak to save face. As long as everything is out in the open, it's not cheating.

Smith has lost his damned mind.

First he sucker slaps someone who probably considered him a friend.

Then for an apology he recycles some lines from his old movie Hancock

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I don’t give two craps what people feel about this bald head of mine. Cuz guess what? I love it.

Ummm....apparently not so much.

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“Being a Black woman and dealing with hair in Hollywood, especially in the era that I came up in, having your hair look as European as possible was always the thing,” she says in the video. “That was really challenging you know because I liked my hair out wild and curly. but nobody wanted that. so I always had to do my hairs in ways that didn’t feel natural to me because of trying to play the game.

So it's whitey's fault. Got it. Add it to the list.

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Probably a good thing Will doesn't carry a gun around.

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Chris Rock was just doing his job. Does anyone remember Don Rickles?

Yeah, it is amusing that people are triggered by Rock's joke; it wasn't actual or implied malice. Smith's master didn't have cancer, or was terminal in any way or fashion.

For those who would think Chris Rock deserved a hit in the face for this little joke, would you also hit Don Rickles in the face over his insults? Should Clint Eastwood gone up to Rickles onstage and hit him for insulting his mother, who also was in the audience? Should Obama hunted down Bill Burr for insulting his wife Michelle in his jokes?

Chris Rock is a comedian. "GI Jane" was just a fucking joke. And BTW, Pale Horse is entirely correct in his assessment of security- I used to be in same exact industry as him in a past life, and yes, there was no way security was going to mess with Smith (the Big Dog in the Dog & Pony Show), unless ordered to by show producers, who call the shots. I can imagine the chatter that was going on through the ClearComs after the slap.

And I agree with John Nolte in this opinion piece. https://www.breitbart.com/ente...dwill-in-30-seconds/

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Chris Rock was just doing his job. Does anyone remember Don Rickles?

Yeah, it is amusing that people are triggered by Rock's joke; it wasn't actual or implied malice. Smith's master didn't have cancer, or was terminal in any way or fashion.

For those who would think Chris Rock deserved a hit in the face for this little joke, would you also hit Don Rickles in the face over his insults? Should Clint Eastwood gone up to Rickles onstage and hit him for insulting his mother, who also was in the audience? Should Obama hunted down Bill Burr for insulting his wife Michelle in his jokes?

Chris Rock is a comedian. "GI Jane" was just a fucking joke. And BTW, Pale Horse is entirely correct in his assessment of security- I used to be in same exact industry as him in a past life, and yes, there was no way security was going to mess with Smith (the Big Dog in the Dog & Pony Show), unless ordered to by show producers, who call the shots. I can imagine the chatter that was going on through the ClearComs after the slap.

And I agree with John Nolte in this opinion piece. https://www.breitbart.com/ente...dwill-in-30-seconds/

From that page:

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All those decades, all that work, and then at the very moment of his career triumph, he drops his pants to reveal a eunuch, the ultimate insecure man — a cuckold who sticks with a woman who serially humiliates him, an insecure bully who takes his public humiliation out on smaller men, an unstable celebrity who fumbles the ball on the one-yard line; an entitled elitist who thinks he can commit an assault in full view of the planet and get away with it.

I’m not big on What It All Means articles, but the lesson here is that the cliché is true. “It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”
Smith lost it in 30 seconds.

Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC. Follow his Facebook Page here.

It occurred to me that Will Smith is where he is in life not because he was especially talented, but because he was likable. That’s it. He’s not a great actor. He has damaged that perception now.

Both of them are minorities that have more money than any God, which seems to have made both of them feel untouchable (pun intended in Rock's case), and so it tickled me all that much more to watch one black icon slap another in front of the world.

Now I realize fighting words have lost a lot of real world application, but I was raised to know making fun of someone's family isn't likely to leave me in one piece for long.

I do think Smith should have handled it differently, but maybe this gets us back to when you could expect a sock in the nose if you go too far out of line.

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Originally posted by apprentice:
Both of them are minorities that have more money than any God, which seems to have made both of them feel untouchable (pun intended in Rock's case), and so it tickled me all that much more to watch one black icon slap another in front of the world.

Now I realize fighting words have lost a lot of real world application, but I was raised to know making fun of someone's family isn't likely to leave me in one piece for long.

I do think Smith should have handled it differently, but maybe this gets us back to when you could expect a sock in the nose if you go too far out of line.

This wasn’t that. Not even an approximation.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to think punching/slapping someone over words is ok? This ain’t the playground. You are grown ups. If your wife says something annoying about somebody at the grocery store and she gets smacked are you still ok with it?

Grow the fuck up. Hitting people over words was never right. Never. You should have learned that in kindergarten.

Nobody wants to live in a society where a perceived “diss” is dealt with violently. You guys carry guns for the most part. You really want someone to slap a guy for an insult and then get shot to death?

Get over yourself. This isn’t Afghanistan. We don’t attack people over insults. Grow up. There was nothing right about this. At all.

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Originally posted by oddball:
Yeah, it is amusing that people are triggered by Rock's joke; it wasn't actual or implied malice. Smith's master didn't have cancer, or was terminal in any way or fashion.

I'm so sick of hearing ppl describe Rock's joke as tasteless & inappropriate as if he were mocking someone dying of stage 4 cancer.

Yes, alopecia is a autoimmune disorder. So are coeliac disease (aka, gluten allergy) and rheumatoid arthritis. It doesn't mean someone has a life-threatening health condition. Alopecia results in hair loss; that's it.

It's OK to joke about Kevin Hart being short; Zach Galifianakis, Jack Black, or Anthony Anderson for being chubby, Peter Jackson for looking slovenly, or Judi Dench for being old, but perish the thought of pointing out that Jada Pinkett-Smith is bald.

As others pointed out, she had bald patches. She could have gotten a weave or wig, but she chose to shave her head to even it out. In other words, going bald was her choice or owning up to the look.

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Originally posted by oddball:
Chris Rock is a comedian. "GI Jane" was just a fucking joke.

Why is being compared to GI Jane an insult?

Have any of your seen GI Jane? GI Jane was a strong female protagonist before that became a woke cliche. When Demi Moore's character shaves her head in the film, it's a pivotal moment where she holds herself up to the same standards as her male BUD/S training candidates and demands no special treatment.

I'm sure when Chris Rock wrote his joke, he thought hard about a positive bald female character to reference. If he wanted to be mean, he could have compared Jada to Sam Cassell, Don Cheadle, or some other bald Black man.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:

Nobody wants to live in a society where a perceived “diss” is dealt with violently. You guys carry guns for the most part. You really want someone to slap a guy for an insult and then get shot to death?

Get over yourself. This isn’t Afghanistan. We don’t attack people over insults. Grow up. There was nothing right about this. At all.

If memory serves me right, last year's "thing" was to "defund the police" and send in contributions to an organization founded by Marxists who applaud the assassinations of cops. BLM and those supporting it come from a place (the inner city) where insufficient numbers of police officers leads to a lack of faith in the criminal justice system. That "vacuum" is filled by criminal street gangs and a culture of entitled retribution for slights, real or imagined. You don't need to go to Afghanistan to find savages that don't give a shit about the rule of law and safe communities. We have that right here.

^^^ Yup - Difference between the rule of nature and civilization

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