Oh do fuck off Will Smith

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He's trying to make out that he has been wracked with guilt for the last 3 months and that he in no way things his actions were ok and that hitting someone one was in no way an appropriate way to deal with the sudden an intense feeling he had.

Bull.

He was at a massive public and world televised event. He didn't just lash out the second he heard the remark. He walked all the way up to the stage , then up the steps, then across the stage to hit Chris Rock. If that wasn't enough time to rethink his reactions then how long did he need?

So stop trying to make out you actually a decent person that 'just made a mistake'. You are violent. So fuck off Will Smith.

He says that large sections of the American Black community are annoyed with Smith for playing into the racist “violent uncivilised Black man” trope that is barely beneath the surface in The States.
A sort of “look how they behave” kind of view.
Being neither Black or a man I have no idea how true this is.

I'm a white person, I feel I need to declare that. I LOVE Will Smith. I like his movies and he always comes across as a lovely guy. But I really lost respect for him over this, although I'd already started to question what was going on with him when he and Jada laid out all their personal business on her Red Table Talk shows.

Black Americans are going to think what they think, they're not going to be interested in a white Brit, but his actions reflect on other black people at all. They reflect on him. Chris Rock handled it so well. (I have to declare I love Chris Rock too.) That doesn't reflect on other black people, either. It just shows him to a professional and self-composed guy.

It's sad that this is somehow being dragged into a race discussion because really it was just appalling behaviour by one person and doesn't reflect on anyone else, let alone an entire ethnicity.

Yep. And the photos of the daughter posing half naked in bed with a grown man at 13 years old. What kind of parenting is going on in that house?

I used to love Will but honestly feel like he's in an abusive relationship, he seems a shell of a man that he used to be.

Yep did you read about Jada and her taking advantage of that young guy they had working for them? Really odd.

Someone’s work has dried up, so is trying to give an absurd late apology to put a plaster on a chopped off leg.

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I think you're all right, he behaved like a total twat and I'm not going to defend him but I can think of an incident in my own past where I behaved in an equally twattish manner and in doing so hurt someone's feelings quite badly, normally I'm a quiet, easy going person who wouldn't say "boo to a goose" and my only excuse/explanation for my behaviour was that I was under a great deal of stress at work at the time, I apologised profusely, I'd never done it before and I've never done it since. Maybe he was in a similar situation?

I thought parts of it seemed quite genuine and heartfelt, particularly when he spoke about Rock's mum and brother. But I didn't like 'trying not to be ashamed of myself' and whole please still like me vibe.

And I think it was a total cop out to do a scripted piece to camera and not an interview, where he could be questioned or challenged.

I don't feel bad for either man though. Chris Rock was part of a bully pulpit culture in that moment that I'm just sick of seeing and he got a slap for it.

Don’t like him.
Never liked him.
like him even less now, the utter arse.
But I’m more of a Nordic Noir, than a Hollywood, see how odd I can look with all this stuff injected into my face, and blindingly white teeth, kind of gal.

His 'apology' is just a pr stunt, nothing more.

Chris Rock was out of line with his joke but it was no excuse for violence. Had Smith let his disapproval and anger show only his face, Rock probably would have been eviscerated online and there would have been much more focus on alopecia and toxic social beauty standards.