Will Smith's Oscars pacifier - an example of black privileges
March 29, 2022

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LEADER The big snack at this year's Oscars was not which films or actors won or did not win, but should have won the coveted statuettes. Nor the fact that it was a revival of a gala in front of an audience after a couple of years of covid restrictions. Instead, he stole the show from Will Smith as he made his way onto the stage and gave this year's conference, Chris Rock, a slap in the face to the assembled Hollywood cream and millions of TV viewers.

"Black on black violence" is, like immigrant violence in Sweden, by far the most common form of violence in the United States, but is usually perpetrated on the streets and not in the fine salons. It is a violence that is often honor-related and in that aspect Will Smith's raw soup fits in - the motive was retaliation for Chris Rock not showing his wife respect when he joked about her hairstyle or rather lack of such due to disease-related hair loss. Another common factor is that in certain ethnicities one does not tolerate satire but becomes violent.

Will Smith has his roots in the black rap culture which, just like in Sweden, has close links to organized serious gang crime. It is said that you can take the gangster from the street but not the street from the gangster. How relevant that saying is, both in general and in the present case, could be part of the discussion, but the part of the left-liberal sloping professional establishment that puts political aspects on the event has other stick horses.

Toxic masculinity or sanctioned feminist violence?
Left-wing feminists, for example, are now squinting at each other in disagreement over whether Will Smith's pacifier should be seen as an expression of so-called toxic masculinity or, on the contrary, that he drew a lance (fist) for all women that Chris Rock is considered to have diminished with his flint.

However, both the feminists who are (mostly black) for men to slap him on the mouth for fooling a woman and the (mostly whites) who advocate a more civilized reaction from men in such a situation seem to agree that Chris Rock's joke was misogynt. Intersectional feminists (both black and white) also succeed in interpreting racism in it.

GI Jane - a film that pays homage to or belittles the woman?
The movie GI Jane that the joke refers to has a tough feminist message, where Demi Moore's character shaves her head in connection with her challenging the boys for a place in one of the USA's toughest military training programs. For a simple layman who signed without a degree from Södertörn University but who has seen the film, it is difficult to read something misogynistic or racist in the script.

But it obviously works. Following the incident, "woke" profiles have claimed that the joke against Jada Pinkett Smith was insulting because director Ridley Scott's intention with the film GI Jane was to diminish women by pointing them out as homosexual. It is not only a bizarre conspiratorial statement but also a logical short that raises questions about what view of sexual minorities one actually has in this political camp.

Perhaps the outrage also has something to do with so-called cultural appropriation. Blacks, judging by the recent uproar surrounding the white artist Agnes ' alleged theft of a black hairstyle on SVT On the Track, seem to be sensitive when it comes to hair. Chris Rock's joke was, so to speak, inverted hair-related and wife Jada Pinkett Smith is, like her husband, black.