[Schatze]

I hate to tell the Academy, but its integrity was compromised long before Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.

[RummyChick]

Will Smith’s lawyers should take careful note of what just happened.

Rock sounds to me like he is taking lawyers advice and not saying anything

https://www.tmz.com/2022/03/30/chris-rock-addresses-slap-comedy-club-boston/

[joshua c]

i have a question. when did it become a celebrity roast? has it always been that way?

[Houserino]

This hopefully will put to rest the idea that this was ‘faked’. Clearly wasn’t from the start, but a lot of know-it-alls on the internet kept saying it was.

[dfwgator]

What if it was a white guy Will slapped?

[ChildOfThe60s]

All they had to do, which they should have done, is intruct security to escort Smith off the premises. No surprise they did not.

[Callnote]

what a sham, Barbara Walters interviewed Will Smith and i am pretty sure he believed that Germs were being spread NY the government on subways

[ChuckHam]

You can take the fresh prince out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the fresh prince.

[chuckb87]

If he was a conservative parent at a school board meeting he would have been beaten, tazed, maced and shot for refusing.

[Leaning Right]

> Mr. Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused <

Well, they should have just slapped him silly then. After all, that’s evidently how disputes are handled in Hollywood these days.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Oxymoron: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness)

broadly : something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements

example : “compromising the integrity of the Academy”

[House Atreides]

“I DINDU NUFFIN and I’m not leaving!

[plain talk]

Traumatic? LOL

[throwthebumsout]

Privilege has its privileges.

[Caipirabob]

Will Smith can go jump off a cliff for all I care. He should take the entire audience of the academy award with him as he goes over the edge. He’s ghetto scum and he’s shown it to the entire planet. He diminished the audience as well as black people by acting out on his thug instincts and being a pathetic candy ass cuck who could whore out his wife but couldn’t bear a silly joke.

[lightman]

"Mr. Smith's actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television

Former PA Treasurer Bud Dywer's televised suicide....now THAT was traumatic.

This was mere slapstick.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Looks like the Academy made a half-assed attempt to do the right thing and eject Smith, but was too gutless to follow through. And Will Smith really is the smug, arrogant guy he portrays in most of his films. Cock of the walk.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It was “wasis” to ask him to leave. He was just doing a black supremacy thing.

sarc/

[Libloather]

Why wasn’t Rock wearing a mask? Would’ve helped.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Will Smith was asked to leave the Oscars after slapping Chris Rock but he refused, the Academy says

So they just went ahead and handed one of their dumb trophies to a guy who committed an assault on live TV and then refused to leave?

[CommerceComet]

If Will Smith likes to slap comedians, I dare him to slap Joe Rogan.