Also, What could anyone in that audience do BUT applaud? they would be blacklisted it they didn’t. And they knew it. So did the people that created this fiasco...to force all these celebs ‘on record’ so to speak.
It’s just like having to wail and cry at Kim Jung Il’s funeral, really.
Those who did not agree should have picked themselves up and walked out rather than sell their souls and allow themselves to be prostituted.