A week later, Will Smith’s Oscar slap gate is being exploited for political commentary. Will Smith’s attack on Chris Rock during the Academy Awards has gotten a response from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. In his one-hour podcast “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the columnist linked the ‘inexcusable’ slap to the left’s’microaggression’ following the Oscar Actor’s outburst at the ceremony.
“Smith is fine with other dudes and his wife having sex, but not with a joke,” the commenter continued, criticising Smith’s double standard. Conservatives and liberals are competing to see who can come up with the worst political reaction to Will Smith’s Oscars slap scandal. The harrowing event has been used to explain the Ukrainian conflict, gender and race-based discrimination, Trump’s grasp on the US, and other concerns. Ben said that comedians are frequently chastised for telling jokes that will soon be forgotten. We will become a much quieter and more dangerous country unless Americans are willing to reinstate the obvious border between speech and violence.
“Hollywood’s moral standards are strange,” Shapiro stated. “Will Smith seems unconcerned about other men having sex with his wife. He doesn’t like it when people make jokes about his wife at the Oscars.
“They’ve been public personalities for about as long as I’ve been alive,” he continued. So that’s, that’s — that was strange — now what was even stranger, and I won’t call it strange because it truly says something about where we are in the country. On Twitter, a large number of people came out in support of Will Smith.”
“After all, it was a poor prank, a cruel joke.” ‘How can he make a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia,’ she says. ‘He shouldn’t tell that joke,’ says the narrator. Okay, you might not like the joke or think it’s horrible,” Shapiro explained.
Conservative Americans rallied to Ben’s defence and mocked Smith’s behaviour. “If Will Smith’s wife can take another man’s d**k,” one user said. She’s capable of laughing at another man’s joke.” “Shapiro is completely correct,” said another. “I’ve always admired Will Smith, but after that uncalled for display, my admiration for him waned, while my admiration for Chris Rock grew.” Ben’s remark drew a response from a Will Smith admirer.
Some commenters, on the other side, chastised the Conservative for his out-of-date traditional values and ethics, rallying in support of Will and Jada.
“Open relationships are a thing, Ben,” one user said. There’s no need to get all up over it. You get to bone other girls if your wife doesn’t get to any other dudes. Unless you have no game, which is probably why you’re afraid to give up control.” “I don’t see how a married couple having an open marriage makes it appropriate for people to insult your wife’s personal health difficulties,” one reader remarked. “Having an open marriage does not make you any less of a person or a horrible person.”
“We have a general rule in this nation that when someone makes a joke you don’t like, you don’t get to beat them above the head,” Ben Shapiro continued, comparing Will’s actions to those of the left. To be honest, I don’t find this very shocking. So many on the left are eager to defend such behaviour. After all, for years and years and years, the left has been eager to support the idea that violence should be the response to quotation on quote “microaggression.”
