Worth a read I think Part 4
From the mistakes of the capitalists to the whites
For the left, all the evil in the world used to be the fault of the right and the capitalists. Even if that rhetoric remains, it has largely been replaced by the more neo-racist that everything is the whites' fault. Immigrants' violence against immigrants in Sweden's suburbs is due to the structural racism and everyday racism of the white Swedish majority society. Blacks' violence against blacks in the United States is the fault of the white Anglo-descendants.

The explanatory model is really lame and is counterproductive one-eyed if the ambition goes beyond primitive indebtedness to really want to achieve some societal improvements. But the left in its argumentation and analysis seldom wants to rise above that level. However, one can surely now raise one's eyes from the street to the podium of the Oscars and find a way to put the blame on whites even for black violence at the Beverly Hills level.

Bad humor over humor ban
Chris Rock's qualities as a comedian can perhaps be discussed, as well as the quality of the current joke. But the prevailing doctrine of insult that the left and Muslims advocate that one should not joke about one or the other is significantly more dangerous from a freedom of expression democratic perspective than that one or the other bad or blunt joke slips through.

Will Smith was definitely more fun when he gave an alien a slap in the face as a fighter pilot on Independence Day than when he did the same with Chris Rock at the Oscars. But even less funny is the debate that has now started where some seriously legitimize that actors should be allowed to shut up even outside the white canvas and how that right is extrapolated and conditioned for political purposes.

Individuals and groups who use violence against each other are the central theme in several hugely popular genres of films and TV series. One may wonder why we are so fascinated by evil sudden death in the world of fiction and if it is healthy. Psychologists believe that it is about some form of incantation of our fear of the violence of reality. In cinema and television, good usually wins over evil in the end and we are lulled into a, possibly false, assurance that this is one of the natural laws of the universe.

Democratic monopoly of violence the only good violence
Will Smith vs Chris Rock is now used to re-legitimize black violence, leftist violence and Muslim violence but condemn right-wing violence. It is the same reasoning that is applied to defend lethal violence in response to someone being violated by a satire or a burning book, the same rhetoric that justifies BLM taking to the streets to vandalize, plunder and abuse.

More dangerous than the violence of individual actors moving out of the white canvas into reality is that entire groups dress up as superhero roles as perpetrators of good violence. The democratic monopoly on violence is not infallible, but the best we have for maintaining a civilized legal society.

Self-justified extrajudicial violence is equally reprehensibly undemocratic, whether its practitioners call themselves left or right, have dark or light complexions, profess one religion or the other.

In the same way, today's increasing black privileges in society are as bad as yesterday's whites. It needs to be marked in large as in small. Therefore, those responsible for the Oscars now need to put their foot down and recall Will Smith's Oscar, just as the US judiciary needs to do so by sentencing him to a custodial sentence.

Footnote: Many people think that the pacifier was just a well-directed publicity stunt. That may be so, but it does not change the reasoning above very much because the voices I refer to assume that it was serious. As long as it has not been exposed as a hoax, I also think that the people in charge of the Oscars and the judiciary should consider it a genuine act of violence.