I mean…hostels are dope if you’re traveling alone or in a small group.

In my years-long experience of needling people who are acting like dicks, a slap like that means “Put your hands up or shut your mouth, because I will fight you over this.”

Getting roundhouse kicked by a stranger does count!

I totally respect that.

Someone has never heard of The Fear.

My thresholds are generally “They’re trying to hit you, “They’re trying to hit someone else,” “They’re a Nazi,” and “They’re Andy Dick.”

I mean, feel free to question the sincerity of his statement.

And the person Chris Rock publicly mocked is a 110 pound black woman with alopecia, whom he had previously belittled for boycotting the Oscars over racial bias.

Perfectly fair, haha!

It’s…really, really not?

It’s more that Chris Rock and Will Smith are peers, so the power imbalance that defines “bullying” from “conflict” isn’t there.

Meanwhile, a lot of us think that comparing a slap in the face to rape is a really, really bad take.

I do feel like this is an interesting litmus test for whether someone’s ever actually been in a physical altercation with a peer.

If he had just called Rock directly, the Barsantis of the world would be spending the next five years bitching about how he’d never really apologized.

I mean, this statement isn’t an attempt to “undo” it.

If you’ve never been slapped for telling a bad joke, you’ve probably never told a good one.

You forgot “Who was born in the 60s and didn’t freak out after the slap.”

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Is that a serious question?

He grew up in 70s Bed-Stuy, not 2020s Bed-Stuy, and his sense of humor is biting and mean.