I was wondering, who was hugging Chris Rock or consoling him?  He’s the one who got slapped.

For anyone who wants to read Jabbar’s incisive breakdown: kareem.substack.com/p/will-smith-did-a-bad-bad-thing?s=r

Did you even listen to the joke? It wasn’t about his wife; it was about GI Joe. If CR was white, no way on God’s green Earth would Will Smith had slapped him.

Then why was Will laughing so hard if they have such a ‘beef’? And by beef, you mean that one time like 7 years ago rock made a quip about the smith’s not being invited to the oscars?

Smith was literally cracking up at the joke. The joke wasn’t funny, but it was totally tame and Will knew that, hence his hysterical laughing. There was no need for a slap. 

The funniest part of this whole thing was that “GI Jane” was immediately added to TV playlists the next day.

He slapped Chris Rock on national TV, he should apologize to Chris Rock on national TV.

AND the MFers clapping him on the back afterward, telling him “It’s alright...” I mean, sure, MAYBE they also sought out Chris Rock to check on him but we haven’t heard one word from any of them about that.

the black folks who came up with the bullcrap that it was about “protecting Black women”

Will Smith has always given me the “dead behind the eyes sociopath” vibe of Tom Cruise.

To me, this isn’t about Will Smith any more. Right now I’m more pissed at those who sort to give him a pass; the black folks who came up with the bullcrap that it was about “protecting Black women”, or that it wasn’t just black or white blah blah blah blah....Shameful.

Sigh... all of this is exhausting. Kareem Abdul Jabbar has an excellent take on this. This Smiths, as usual have to suck up all the air in the room with their “Look at me “ antics, this time it’s gone too far. When Will’s publicist stepped to him at the commercial break and Will’s head had been cleared from his…

Good on him for apologizing. I hope that he has talked to him in-person as well, and not just as an Instagram post.

What an entanglement.

What has truly made me despair for the human species during the past few years is that it really doesn’t take any kind of deep fake or serious effort at all to make people buy into a completely unrealistic, or ridiculous reality.

First, you might want to read the “we want you to cringe” part again, because you’ve misunderstood (and therefore misrepresented in your reply) what they are saying.

That I know of, there is no movement to rebrand “child pornography” as “child image abuse”.

Similarly worried about the implications of deep-fakes.

That’s what I fear. There is no truth any longer. Truth is negotiable and reality is what you can make people believe. This is a Pandora’s Box that has no bottom and could be so disruptive, in the wrong hands, that it can break society as a viable construct. I have, on my desk, a machine with the power to remake the…

Welcome to our post-truth dystopian reality. I was discussing this (not the porn part, but the political ramifications) over dinner with the family last Friday and told them the first time that I saw a deepfake used to affect politics (though I’m sure it wasn’t) was as a plot device in the 1987 film “The Running Man”. …