to the point that they’ve essentially become ascended memes

The problem with this conversation is that I think a lot of people view this question through the lens of DBZ Abridged, which really ramped up the whole “Goku bad dad/Piccolo Good Dad jokes to the point that they’ve essentially become ascended memes that even the official anime/manga sometimes makes similar jokes. …

Sure he was a good dad.

Goku might be his father.
But Piccolo is his daddy

Counterpoint: good parents don’t put their kids in harm’s way, time and time again, from a young age. He’s continuously leaving his wife and child to train. There’s a bunch more but this is cherry picking at best, and even what you cherry pick isn’t what I would want out of my father lol

Nolan breaking the TV by accident will always be a cherished memory.  He's a pretty swell guy and I'm sorry things went south with Baker.

No, he didn’t.

She had publicized the affair previously.  That was what was in very bad taste.  Rock didn’t improve it, be he certainly didn’t initiate it.

Or he could have done a sensitive interview about how upsetting the joke was. Or had his agent put out a press release saying that he was offended.

Over at Kotaku they scream any time some one brings up AI generated anything meanwhile half the articles at the AVClub feel like they were written by an algorithm

Yes, because making fun of one woman implies he’s making fun of all women.

Was this written by all of the staff? 

They hit their “we don’t like this and nobody else should either” point and just kinda stopped, yeah. They said what needed to be said (in their minds).

The slap is all on Will Smith. He could have done the sensible thing and have a chat with Rock afterwards that he would like him to apologize for what he said to his wife. 

It’s almost like the writers for this site are unfunny, untalented hacks. 

I saw him live a few weeks ago. A massive detail the AVClub is selectively leaving out, to maximize the outrage you’re supposed to feel, is that he’s pointing out that she cheated on him by sleeping with their teenage son’s friend, and then they took interviews about it as a family. The joke is Will Smith had to sit…

It’s funny how you can tell the avclub is so terrified of finding something funny that someone somewhere might be offended by.

Nah. You’re just an unfunny, depressed loser. 

What reality do you live in? 

I’m a fan of AV Club’s ‘If you like this, you’re a bad person’ angle at the end.  But come on. “Don’t fight in front of white people” is genuinely good advice. I lol’ed at that.