You’re entitled to your take even if you do lack nuance.

It is tangentially about free speech. The issue this brings up is about how comedians and others have become increasingly vitriolic over the years and then hide behind the free speech clause to justify socially unacceptable bullying type behavior they pass off as harmless jokes.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not defending Will Smith. It was a poor decision. Use your words and all of that.

I’m just not giving Chris Rock a bye for being a jackass. He knows about her condition, she’s been very open about it on social media. Her daughter shaved her head as well as a supportive action. Since when is it socially acceptable to mock someone for being ill or making fun of someone’s physical infirmities? Its not. It’s jackass, abusive, bullying behavior. It’s not funny and it’s not cool.

If you think it is, let me invite you to go down to your local hospital and mock the cancer patients or the local VA so you can mock some vets who have lost limbs. Let me know how many bruises you come home with. I think deep down you’d know you deserved them.

What’s the difference? She’s a black woman? She has money? She’s successful? Why would any of those things suddenly make it okay?

Chris Rock crossed a line and he got smacked for it. Does that absolve Smith? Of course not.

Both men were in the wrong, frankly as was the Academy, and the rest of us should not be pointing the finger of blame at one person. We should be minding our business and leaving the tar and feathers in our respective garages.