Some people absolutely are condoning and justifying it. You may not be one of them. But to say no one here has done that is just plain false.
That's not what I said. Some people have been trying to draw attention on Jada and how she's not being represented in this discussion, how she was subject to a terrible joke about an illness outside of her control and most people think that doesn't warrant any sort of apology or sympathy.
I even saw a post on this thread suggest something along the lines of "she waived her rights to an apology when Chris got slapped".
That's simply not how things work.
Some of the people more apologetic towards Chris Rock have been repeatedly given context and asked about where they stood when it comes to Jada's treatment in the midst of all this and those questions were left largely unanswered as they jumped to quoting another person instead of answering questions that they find uncomfortable.
This is why I said that this thread has become mostly about something other than the violence. People have been trying to provide context so that those unaware understand that this feud, spat, or whatever you want to call it, between Chris Rock and Jada didn't materialize out of the blue but is part of a decades-long well-documented pattern and because of that some people are less than sympathetic towards him. I understand that because I know the context.
In my mind, there's a difference between "I condone violence" and "I understand why the violence happened." Maybe that's just my perspective or the way I've been reading the thread, but that's the feeling I got from reading most of it. That isn't to say that some people have been condoning it, but I think those people are fewer than the ones berating those who try to provide the context as to why this happened.
The person who was victim of the hurtful joke that sparked the violence is the only one who hasn't received an apology or even as much as a few ounces of sympathy even though most people are in agreement that it was, at the very least, a "joke" that was made in very poor taste by a person who, we know for a fact, knew better than to mock a woman's hair because of what it signifies to them because he starred in a documentary
precisely about hair.
