Lot of people, myself included for a brief moment, were hammering him for laughing at first but your point about it possibly being simply a product of his being polite, processing, then reacting puts that part of the situation into the proper perspective IMO.

And I think you're also right that the above can be true, while the "he overreacted" responses to the whole thing can also be true. I stand in that line.

But ... his processing fell short when he won the oscar a half hour later and didn't apologize to CR lol. I'm sure they'll hash it out but he had enough time by then to realize he'd fucked up and should've at least acknowledged Rock in his otherwise-brutal speech.


>its possible, maybe even likely, that he didn't initially get
>that the joke was about her hair, and was just kinda laughing
>along politely, and it came to him, when he saw Jada's
>reaction, however for such a reaction, he would then have to
>assume that Rock knows she has a condition and is choosing to
>mock it.. and i don't think he had enough processing time to
>get there, so it seems he just overcompensated, because HE
>knows he has a condition and he knows he just fucked up
>
>Plus if his whole thing is just 'keep my wife's name out your
>mouth', period... yeah that doesn't play either because again,
>he was laughing. (that's just shit you say in the moment tho)
>
>obv he handled this thing badly, and its funny because if i
>had to guess, the three of them will hash this out, but it's
>all gonna take on a life of its own, with everything from a
>billion think pieces, scold tweets, and anti cancel culture
>stuff...with everyone from the view to ben shapiro needing to
>weigh in.. the whole gamut