This event began 02/23/2026 and repeats every year forever
I remember when the slap happened and I told people. If I was in will smith's shoes I wouldn't had gone to the oscars and will not go to any awards shows after the slap. If I was in chris rock's shoes , who was paid to come, I wouldn't had made the insult/joke on jada pinkett smith and will not go to any awards shows after the slap.
Michael B Jordan +Delroy Lindo + the black populace witnessing or on record somewhere had to suffer this modern insult from a white person. The white person with Tourette wants to be treated as if they are no different than anyone else, but they are, because if they didn't have tourette they would be considered unquestioningly rude. But because they have tourette's, their rude actions are deemed allowable. rudeness is allowable with Tourettes ? if that is the standard for award shows then the wisest thing anyone can do going forward is not go or not watch if they don't want to be insulted.
The reality is if the structure of awards shows continues as is, their will always be slaps and insults in the future.
So what is the solution. Let's end the media function of award shows.
Why do award shows exist? they don't exist to give awards, awards can be given privately from organizations to individuals. Awards shows exist to make money by having celebrities dress up for fashion designers and get sponsorship dollars for organizations while receiving awards, which lead to clicks/views/ or similar.
So, going forward, stop these award shows and just send people their awards privately. With the internet winners can make videos and anyone can like comment or other, and all manner of communication is allowed online.
or embrace the fact that the structure of award shows invites inappropriate behavior inevitably. The idea that anyone can design a perfect show is foolish. I know some will be angry for some are addicted to media, they need everything to be a show. But, I argue the polities is kept safer by getting rid of the show, keeping the awards, and having people make videos for their win.
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I've been asked about what happened at the BAFTAs. A man with Tourette's yelled a word that cuts to the bone of Black experience in this country.
Let me start here: I don't know what's in his heart. Neither do you. His condition means his brain grabbed a charged word and couldn't stop it. That is real. That matters.
But here's what I know for sure: That word landed in Black bodies. It landed in mine. And it landed in a moment when Black people are under attack—politically, legally, socially—in ways that feel increasingly relentless.
When the immediate response becomes 'but he has a condition,' what I hear is another request for Black people to set aside their pain so someone else's explanation can be centered. I am not interested in making that trade.
I can hold two things at once:
• The clinical reality of Tourette's.
• The historical and personal reality of that word's weight.
I can extend compassion to a man whose body betrayed him, without asking Black people to absorb yet another wound in silence.
And I can refuse the false choice between 'he's a victim of his condition' and 'Black pain matters.' Both are true. Both deserve to be held.
If you're hurting today, I see you. I'm hurting too. And I will not ask you to perform forgiveness for anyone's comfort—including mine.
My Reply
Maybe it is time for award shows to stop and just give people their awards, in that way, no incidents at award shows is possible.
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Award shows make money by promoting fashions or selling advertising/sponsorship space, the giving of awards is only the teaser to the profit, giving awards don't make money on their own. Money making can not coincide with everything else. To restate, if you want an civil thoughtful courteousnes/place of a court, that can not occur alongside fiscal capitalistic profiteering. Sooner or later, or inevitably, fiscal capitalistic profiteering will lead to a lack of civlity or a lack of thoughtfulness, from some human actors.
The reason modern TVs are so cheap nowadays is due to the amount of money advertisers expect to make based on viewing habits.
... the modern fabrication capabilities, which are the industrial backbone of the potent governemnts today have been built on,,.. i will not go into it, but financially, people forget how important time is on growing systems of industry, even if they are not seen.
1 hour ago, ProfD said:
That is why laws & police exist...to provide order & protect & serve the interests of capitalists.
I never knew any of that... i argue all of that is counterable
1 hour ago, ProfD said:
A whole lot of cash money flows through Las Vegas. There is a reason the place has never been hijacked & taken over by armed guerillas.
when you the place? las vegas is a big city , no big city in modern humanity has been hijacked:) where do you live? and no big city in modernity has been taken over by armed guerillas, where are you from?
1 hour ago, ProfD said:
The same thing applies to the USA in general. Despite crime statistics & other ills in society, the USA has never had reason to fear being 1) overthrown or 2) invaded.
well the war of 1812, that was an invasion by the english empire and it had a chance to overthrow... where are you from?
1 hour ago, ProfD said:
Fiscal capitalism benefits so many people directly & indirectly that folks from all corners will rise up to protect & defend it.
this is a lie based on statistics at any time in history.
@aka Contrarian so:) I guess you like the drama of award shows
