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I feel weird when a bunch of white dudes on the internet are going after a black woman for her reaction to this. Kinda seems like we lost the thread a bit if we’re reading too much into interviews from 2013

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And to be clear I’m on record as saying it's dork shit to take a super hard stance on the internet about either initial side. Getting so worked up over another celeb’s response that you’re reading decade old interviews…insanity.

 

The oscars going to go all in on this to please reactionaries, amazing lol

 

I mean, not sure what else you’d expect from twitter. From some of the stuff I read it wasn’t originating from white dudes though. There were many tweets from black people about it.

If she were the only one getting “dirt” brought up I’d have more of an issue with it. But she’s not. At this point I’m just fascinated where the discussion goes. I don’t think I have anything of value to contribute at this point.

 

I gotta say, kinda feel like it’s bullshit PR that they actually asked him to leave. No chance they did.

 

Especially since there was a quote shortly after the awards that they didn’t have enough time to convene to make that call until he already won the award.

 

There’s definitely a fine line of “not policing what comics say” and “every comic thinks they were appointed by god to be funny”

 

Rock barely mentioned Sunday at his show tonight. Probably for the best haha.

 

He did say that when he does talk about it though, it will be "serious" and "funny", which tells me the worst is yet to come.

 

it's so weird that he was presenting best documentary

 

That took a turn I was not expecting, wtf. That's real shitty of Chris to do.

 

Deleted, what was it?

 

When he announced Summer of Soul as the winners, he referred to the group as "Questlove and four white dudes."

The guy who wrote the now-deleted thread, Joseph Monish Patel, had just made history as the 3rd South Asian person to ever win an Oscar. The first and second had won earlier that night. It was kind of a big deal and Patel didn't even hear the bad joke in the moment, but it bothered him a lot afterward, particularly because Rock had made the same joke at a Roots event the previous night and was aware that the "...and four white dudes" was factually wrong on top of being a dick thing to say.

Sucks that someone had Patel delete it, but within the thread he also went out of his way to stress that he was still thrilled and knew that nothing about the night, be it Rock's joke or the Slap stealing their thunder, takes away the joy.

 

Oh damn yeah that is pretty fucked up

 

I heard Rock say that in the moment and was so confused because it wasn’t true. Learning he intentionally made the joke a second time despite knowing it wasn’t true isn’t surprising though considering the “joke” that got him slapped mere moments earlier.

 

Wow I completely missed that. How does your brain even go to that after getting slapped on national tv?

 

Will knew so he preemptively slapped him.

 

He and I

 

King


Except when he does anything for harry potter

 

uhhh, they didn't lie ok? It's called acting

 

It’s amazing how bad every PR team in entertainment is.

 

Time to log off

How fast can you slap Chris Rock?