Whether the words were offensive to Jada, the choice of response was hers and hers alone to make. Women are completely capable of defending ourselves, especially from mean spirited and offensive WORDS.

isn’t that the same guy who toured Hitler’s mountain home for fun and selfies?

The normalization of this is twisted and insane.

My takeaway from the last 14 hours is that a large segment of our population thinks that physical violence is the appropriate reaction to a verbal insult, and that physical violence at a formal event full of your peers where you hope to win an award is ok. How far we have fallen.

He pledged to “come back to finish this job” in the metro area at some unspecified time

I generally don’t comment on other people’s appearance, even complimentary, for a reason. People are sensitive about it, and you never know what the reason might be behind an appearance. Who knows if the weight loss you noticed or whatever is a source of pride or a source of angst? A lot of people’s lives would have…

He needed to be escorted from the theater. I can’t believe they let him stay after assaulting a presenter. 

You say battle as if it's some fight for your life. It's hair loss FFS. Let women age normally without pretending hair loss is some horrible affliction that takes courage to be seen in public with. 

And then to justify it with: “Love makes you do crazy things,” which is of course the motto of every abuser.

Will has been repeatedly emasculated by his wife on her show over the past year and he takes it out on Chris Rock over a very tame, some might even say a very lame joke. Will Smith is a COWARD. He would NOT have slapped a white comedian making that joke.

This. It was scary, and my first thought was about what he’s like in private if this is how this escalated in public. 

Seriously. His behaviour was the very definition of toxic masculinity (something this site supposedly deplores?). You can defend your loved one without resorting to violence.

That was Will Smith’s biggest hit in years.

That was dick move by Smith. Jesus, it was just a joke. There were a lot of people in that room who were targets of jokes, you didn’t see them get upset about it.

I hate the “fuck this country” attitude on the left because, yeah, I mean, I kind of get it. Also, a lot of us are stuck here, so I’d prefer it not be fucked while we’re stuck in it. It ultimately seems like such a privileged attitude to just be like “Let it burn.” when people are stuck in the burning house.

I love my various communities and (in aggregate) my city. America is fucked, and is designed in such a way that it will become increasingly more so. It’s holding back progress both internally and abroad, and a sizeable portion of it is ruled by people who fight against educating their constituency, so as to stay in…

Well shit.
Let me guess... He can now claim that while in the hospital, he underwent anesthesia for some procedure and now as a side effect of the anesthesia, he just can’t recall anything that Ginni may or may not have said about her plotting the treasonous insurrection.

I was really hoping they buried the lede and reported later on that he was indeed released from the hosptial....to the morgue.

That 8-1 vote where Clarence was the only justice to vote to block the release of documents that included information about his wife... that should be a HUGE deal.  But it won’t.

The Republican Party is a seditious terrorist organization.