When I tried to imagine it from Will Smith's point of view, what he might have been thinking, the very first thing I thought was "He's [Rock] going to get away with this. There will be absolutely no meaningful consequences for him at all for saying that, not one thing to make him consider behaving differently in the future."
I would think more poorly of Smith if there were any reason to expect that there would have been any repercussions at all for Rock for using his position to be so cruel.
But as it is... well, all I can think of is the one time in my life when I hit a bully in the face (I was thirteen and she and her friends had me surrounded after school and weren't letting me leave and were deliberately trying to get me to lose my temper because they thought it was funny.) That was nearly 30 years ago, and I've never managed to actually feel sorry I did it. Sometimes I've wished I did feel sorry, but I never have. Twenty or thirty years from now, I bet Will Smith doesn't either.
Also, lilysea is right, he is being judged exponentially harder than white people who've done similar or far worse things.
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Date: 2022-03-29 12:17 pm (UTC)When I tried to imagine it from Will Smith's point of view, what he might have been thinking, the very first thing I thought was "He's [Rock] going to get away with this. There will be absolutely no meaningful consequences for him at all for saying that, not one thing to make him consider behaving differently in the future."
I would think more poorly of Smith if there were any reason to expect that there would have been any repercussions at all for Rock for using his position to be so cruel.
But as it is... well, all I can think of is the one time in my life when I hit a bully in the face (I was thirteen and she and her friends had me surrounded after school and weren't letting me leave and were deliberately trying to get me to lose my temper because they thought it was funny.) That was nearly 30 years ago, and I've never managed to actually feel sorry I did it. Sometimes I've wished I did feel sorry, but I never have. Twenty or thirty years from now, I bet Will Smith doesn't either.
Also,