#ThursdayThoughts: The Shallow Oscars, Shallow Americans, and Perverted Justice

 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.: 

1. that we don’t punish the rich for committing crimes, whereas we would put a poor man in prison for a few years; and
2. that we don’t care enough about people in Ukraine and other places with suffering. 

I myself neither watched nor cared to watch the Oscars; and I myself want to see Will Smith held accountable for assault, battery, and criminal breach of the peace. 

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.