Just to be clear, “not getting away with it” is getting hit in the face in the middle of an award ceremony? This is the world you're living in... 

The right is not confused at all.  Will Smith is a thug as far as they’re concerned.

If you’re that rich and can’t laugh at what was a corny but ultimately harmless joke at your expense ...  

I’m capable of thinking about two things at once, thanks.

The Oscar Slap is turning into quite the cultural Rorschach test. Folks are projecting in IMAX. My personal projection is: this is a pretty good example of why some of us aren’t eager to return to in-person work.

She didn’t lose her hair to chemo, she has alopecia, many men and women do. Some women suffer from pattern baldness. She has her health, it’s not the same thing. The grown up thing to do would have been to address it by either talking about alopecia when he won his award or take Chris Rock aside and have a…

Putin IS violent and unhinged. White people, as a whole, are made up of sane and insane alike, just as every other race under the sun are. One person’s actions does not justify a broad generalization about an entire race of people. Will Smith is an insane individual, who should’ve been escorted out, banned for life,…

And what was the clip they played from King Richard? “You’re not representing yourself; you’re representing little black girls all over the world.”

Alopecia isn’t a serious medical condition. People get old - their hair falls out. If Hollywood allowed women to age normally you wouldn’t be contemplating the virtuous nature of walking up onto a stage and hitting someone. Just because some scientology weirdos act like lunatics doesn’t mean you should absorb their…

But words alone shouldn’t be met with violence, right?  I mean, it’s not like Chris Rock said “I’m going to come down there and hit Jada”.  He made a joke in bad taste; her life wasn’t being threatened, I think Will grossly over-reacted.  if he met words with words, it wouldn’t have been the issue that it is today.  

Can I punch everyone who’s ever said “they’d give a kidney for material things” since I have kidney disease? No. I’m an adult and know a joke. 

I doubt he would have made the joke about Jada if she had lost her hair from chemo. Alopecia is not comparable to cancer in no form. 

Maybe punch him later? That would be stupid and childish, too, given that Will Smith is theoretically a damn grown-up. But if that’s what he needed to do because he’s a powerful person and is used to doing whatever the fuck he wants to do, PUNCH HIS ASS LATER. Hundreds of millions of people have now seen him assault a…

Only in Hollywood can one man sucker punch another man for literally nothing and then get a standing ovation.

I thought staged, until he was yelling ‘keep my wife’s name out your fucking mouth’ from his seat. ABC/Disney aren’t going to be happy.

Open handed slapped in front of the world and you keep rolling. Man, comedians are built different. I don't know what I would’ve done

Well we better get used to OscarsSoWhite or at least OscarsLessBlack because while Vladimir Putin can invade a whole ass country and not have it used as an example of white people being violent and unhinged - black people aren’t afforded that luxury. You had an already crappy show with a black producer and two black…

The Blackest Oscars ever. And we have to have Black on Black violence? If that was staged, that’s F’ed up. If that was real, that’s F’ed up. That was seriously F’ed up.

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 is a telling example of how unprotected black men are in this society.