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why do people care abt the damn slap so much? i loved it, my gf did too, but her mom went full “he should be arrested” over it
Will Smith is an African-American man. That slap triggered a lot of people's latent racism.
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I love the part of your story about the poetry slam. The story works without that context, but the fact you had this conversation at a poetry slam, surrounded by (in my imagination) bad poetry and snapping beatniks really elevated it somehow
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I've heard the take of 'not in front of the white people!' And I've got mixed feelings on the idea. You're right though - making fun of a black woman's appearance is really fucked up and didn't get nearly as much attention as the slap.
And who would want a partner who made shitty boomer jokes about them? I've never thought to make fun of my partner's appearance to their face, let alone to others.
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Yeah, full stop. I work with a lot of those types and they just hate their wives. It's such a gross mindset
yeah who gives a fuck about a celebrity being slapped. Like it's such a small thing when you have any sense of perspective but people get so worked up about it it's quite puzzling
I think celebrities should be slapping the living shit out of each other all the time. It's the least they cann do for us, frankly