The View Criticizes Will Smith’s Chris Rock Slap at Oscars

On Monday’s episode of the daytime discuss present, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and visitor host Ana Navarro weighed in on the now-infamous slap — and so they did not maintain again on criticizing Smith over what they described as an act of violence and “show of toxic masculinity.”

Goldberg introduced the subject to the desk, with Behar first giving her take.

“I was thinking comedians are in danger everywhere,” she stated, earlier than occurring to recommend {that a} “more appropriate response” would have been for Smith to go away the theater. Behar used the second when she and Goldberg stormed off “The View” set throughout Bill O’Reilly’s look again in 2010 for example, and added, “But to actually hit somebody was shocking, quite frankly.”

While Navarro famous that Rock’s joke was “in very poor taste,” she confused that “nothing, nothing, nada, [z]ero, condones violence in this form.”

Hostin chimed in, sharing that she was “embarrassed” for Smith and “horrified” for Rock.

“I mean, Will apologized to the Academy, and he apologized to his colleagues and the other nominees, but he didn’t apologize to Chris Rock,” she defined. “And I thought Chris was the one that deserved an apology, for taking the high road. He was slapped in front of millions of people, internationally, and he took the high road in his response.”

She then continued to go in on Smith, saying that the actor was “immature,” “childish” and “violent.”

Hostin went on to convey up the truth that Smith and Jada have “lived publicly their whole lives,” noting that this implies you “open up yourself to jokes and commentary.”

However, Hostin stated, “When you live publicly, you don’t have the right to all of a sudden decide to execute violence. And I have to say, that was a show of toxic masculinity.”

“If he was offended and felt emasculated by Regina Hall’s joke, or by Chris Rock’s joke, you don’t act out in violence,” she stated. “That is not a show of love, that’s a show of violence.”

As for Goldberg, she expressed that she believes “there was a lot of stuff probably built up,” noting how since 2016 there was a variety of jokes about Smith and Jada, particularly about their marriage.

“I think he overreacted,” she defined, earlier than including, “I get it. Not everybody acts the way we would like them to under pressure. Some people just snap. He snapped. What I do wanna say is I think it’s remarkable and wonderful that Chris Rock did not take it to that other place it could have gone.”

The stunning second got here when Rock was on stage to current an award. He made a joke about Jada, telling her, “Jada, I love ya. ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it.”

The comic was seemingly referring to the brand new coiffure the “Matrix” actress had been embracing after revealing her wrestle with alopecia, a dysfunction that assaults hair follicles leading to bald spots and hair loss.

Smith then stormed the stage and slapped Rock throughout the face. He appeared shocked after the strike, “Oh wow,” he stated, earlier than including, “Will Smith just smacked the s— out of me.”

In response, Smith shouted to the stage from his seat, yelling, “Keep my wife’s name out your f—ing mouth!”

“Wow, dude, it was a ‘G.I. Jane’ joke,” Rock remarked earlier than Smith reiterated, “Keep my wife’s name out your f—ing mouth!”

Meanwhile, later within the night, Smith gained the Academy Award for Best Actor for his efficiency in “King Richard.” In his acceptance speech, the actor referenced the altercation and apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees, however uncared for to say Rock in his apology.

“I want to apologize to the Academy. I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees,” Smith said as he accepted his award. “Art imitates life: I look like the crazy father. Just like they said about Richard Williams. But love will make you do crazy things. Hope the Academy invites me back.”