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Showing Original Post only (View all)Violence is unacceptable. Period. [View all]
If someone insults someone you care about in public you can boo, get upset and have a talk with the person afterwards in private.
What you can't do is go over and hit the person.
Ordinary people who do that get expelled, fired, ejected, arrested, etc...
Using violence to resolve conflict has become way too common in our gun obsessed country.
Lastly a lot of survivors of physical and verbal abuse like myself were triggered by everything Will Smith did last night: the violent outburst, the yelling profanity and blame the victim excuses afterwards. A lot of us had flashbacks to abusers who've done the same thing and also not been held accountable. Violence is never justified in domestic disputes. Period.
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Sure seems like it. If you watch him during and immediately after the joke, he was laughing
BlackSkimmer
Mar 2022
#10
Nah. You can't even hit a NAZI, but I would be hard pressed to harshly criticize someone who did.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2022
#9
Well, there is the phrase, "the only good nazi is a dead Nazi". That was from WWII, but
madinmaryland
Mar 2022
#21
Yeah, Smith had 40 lbs on Rock. Don't believe for a second Smith slaps Dave Chapple who is swolte
uponit7771
Mar 2022
#24
Comparing Jada to an athletic badass Demi More is "verbal abuse" ?! I'm not getting this at all ..
uponit7771
Mar 2022
#22
+1, we all saw Smith LAUGHING too !! Now people are trying to gas light and say he didn't get the
uponit7771
Mar 2022
#23
If that's a blanket statement its absurd, violence is perfectly acceptable under some circumstances.
Dial H For Hero
Mar 2022
#25