Whether they like or hate it, the shallow celebrities who insisted on holding the Oscars during this time insisted on making themselves ambassadors of at least a segment of American culture. They now have to deal with the fallout of giving everybody else in the world a bad impression of Americans – i.e.:
- that we don’t punish the rich for committing crimes, whereas we would put a poor man in prison for a few years; and
- that we don’t care enough about people in Ukraine and other places with suffering.
I also want to see Chris Rock held accountable for incitement of hatred against Jada Pinkett Smith per the ADA (as the ADA stipulates that one can be held accountable for a hate crime if he or she deliberately or extremely-recklessly incited hatred against somebody based on his or her disability—and that includes a medical condition such as alopecia¹). I don’t buy that he didn’t know about her alopecia, given that she’s been very open about it and most people especially in Hollywood know about the happenings of their fellow celebrities.
¹Depending on the jurisdiction, a hate crime per the ADA can be either a misdemeanor or a felony.
