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Will Smith's Oscars Incident | My Thoughts

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uh any thoughts about the will smith incident at the oscars wow yes indeed the world has been taken by storm by this incident and yeah right so i mean this so there's some speculation was this staged which although i don't um i'm not sure i um lean that way but i don't entirely rule it out

0:38

um i think it's there's some element of plausibility that it may have been staged considering that pfizer were from what i've read that pfizer who sponsored the oscars are on the verge of announcing a treatment they're in their third phase for a treatment for alopecia so this has kind of got the whole world now talking about alopecia so i mean it's there's an element of plausibility although

1:17

i'm not saying it is but it gives it some possibility that said let's go with it being real right now personally my understanding is that look you've gotta you've gotta understand something i i don't think it's okay that will smith in front of the entire world smacks

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a man and then receives an award and a standing ovation it you know that for making a joke that he just goes there and just smacks him across the face that is not acceptable and you see you've got to let's go with this being real you've got to to pause and take a step back this is how i see it you see this man chris rock is a comedian

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as is or was will smith it is his job to crack jokes now the oscars year in year out they do a performance in which they roast celebrities that's part and parcel of the oscars they do every single oscar this is nothing you know this is just run-of-the-mill ordinary

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performances there's nothing this is not like oh it was a surprise so okay let's put that on just just acknowledge that secondly a person has to understand that look so if if you are very sensitive so if a person is sensitive to jokes they shouldn't go to a comedy show because they're sensitive to those jokes so okay this this is not the same as a person walking down the road and somebody hurling abuse at them this is not like that so i did see a bunch of comments where

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people were like were saying oh this is defending the honor this is nothing like that nothing like that okay so this is not will smith was not walking down some street and he got jumped or his wife was getting harassed or they were sitting at a show which has a which the part of which has a roasting segment in which they roast celebrities because these are public figures who actually thrive which is part and parcel of that celebrity lifestyle so okay so put that aside the other thing is

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as far as this joke went so chris rock said a joke about jada being gi jane because you know she's bold this was in all honesty a very mild joke considering the jokes that have been said about jada since she herself publicly with will smith have gone on national tv and told the world that she sleeps with other men for her happiness because her husband will smith cannot

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give her that happiness so this just to put this in perspective so jada has gone on national tv and explained that she needs her own pursuit of happiness which she's not getting from will so she sleeps with other men august and other people that she's you know been with and the only person who decides that is her and ever since the internet has roasted

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the hell out of jada and will smith so you know all things considered this was a very lame joke it was nothing compared to how you just need to see the memes about will jada and her entanglement to to see this is nothing so him saying gi jane another point is will actually laughs at the joke so will laughs at it until he sees jada is not laughing at it so okay so that's another thing so they show him he's going

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good joke and then he's like oh okay this one like so look then the internet has brought up the internet's this is why you gotta love the internet internet has brought up a sket a clip of will smith on stage cursing a person with alopecia so you just if you youtube now will smith making fun of a bold person it comes right up he was doing this exact same thing he was on stage cursing a man

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because of alopecia and boldness so right these people understand these things they they're comedians you know that's their lifestyle they make jokes but to say that look it's okay to go and attack a comedian because the comedian is making a joke that is offensive this is really just part of a this kind of uber woke uh fanaticism

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because look just just pause for a moment put all of this aside freedom of speech the primacy and the importance of the freedom of speech let me tell you look i saw several muslims celebrating as well and several muslims didn't it's this was just like the rest of the world i mean it's not like muslims were on one side but you see certain people saying this now let me give you a spin on this you see you say

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that all other gods are false that is highly offensive to people who believe in those other gods and many people including muslims we value faith above other things so above the honor of their wife would be to certain people the honor of their faith when you say that all those gods are fake and false

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you offend many people who worship these are the gods would it be okay now in india let's say and we can see the right wing fascism that is increasing as we speak in india would it be okay for them to get burned down muslim houses because they say well this person is offending me by saying i find it offensive they say i find the quran offensive because it

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it it claims the falsehood of all these other gods does that give people because they're offended does he give him the right to burn the quran now does it give them the right to to to attack muslims because because they're offended

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their sense of honor for their religions you've offended them clearly you've offended them if you say these idols are useless you know the quran says that what are these statues you know these are malaca they can't speak they can't do anything someone bookmarking it's offensive to people that worship these tattoos does it give them the right to to start burning so exactly so now you start to understand

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why it's important to have freedom of speech to have uh to be able to say many muslims i don't believe this to be true in fact i believe it to be insulting to the prophet salallahu alaihi but unfortunately many muslims say the prophet married a child they say the prophet married a nine-year-old that is highly offensive to many people i mean it's offensive to me it's offensive to many muslims who don't believe that they say that's insulting but there are still many muslims who believe that unfortunately and actually go around

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saying that that's okay to do if the you know provided the law of the land doesn't stop it that's highly offensive does would that give the right now for people to start attacking and burning these people and beating them up or shooting them or does it no like you see so we have to understand first and foremost that speech must be protected even when it hurts and offends you

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it must be the quran when the prophet began teaching the quran to people he began on the very premise that i do have the right and the freedom to say this and i know it is offensive to the to all of you in makkah i know it's offensive so just you know when people go on this part of this militant woke brigadism i think they should really be careful and understanding the implications and

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the ramifications of trying to rob society from free speech because believe me it won't be long before this monster turns back on you and they say well actually saying this about the prophet that this person did this this you know we find him offensive but maybe they won't okay maybe this won't happen in the uk maybe what doesn't happen in the us but it happens in other places maybe it happens in india maybe it happens in other parts of the world they turn on muslims so it is always important to defend freedom

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of speech even if it's offensive and if a person as far as mocking and ridiculing jokes are concerned well you see this is i i sometimes it surprises me that how people struggle to to to understand this topic you see there is something known as set and setting or the context so for example a comedy show is a comedy show you know stand-up comedians they are comedians watching comedy sketches watching comedy central watching these

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things are comedy shows of course they're going to have jokes that are offensive but if you're offended just don't watch them it's as simple as that so that's where i stand with all of these things i i do think i mean i do think there's a chance this was staged i think there is a chance this whole thing was staged but uh because that slap seemed a bit i don't know it just didn't seem um in which and it could be that pfizer have staged it for the uh upcoming treatment for alopecia but it could be that this was real in

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which case i find it unacceptable that a man could get up a man who himself has roasted so many people and in all honesty he only did this because it was chris rock i mean if somebody else had cracked that joke who would have been bigger than will smith or if the if the if well as they say if the other rock there's no way will smith would have got up there and did that so it's you know he just responded in a very erratic way yeah so that's my thoughts on it but i will say you know i did want to add to

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that putting all of that aside it's interesting watching the it's interesting watching the um [Music] the kind of disintegration of a popular individual a celebrity a world-renowned you know oscar-winning celebrity like will smith you know a man who in many ways has it all you know money fame

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accomplishment assets family children you i mean love you tell me he has it all and there was a period where it felt like that will smith was um you know he was on his way to enlightenment i don't know if you remember he was doing a lot of these videos with uh what's his name jay shetty and on on spiritual enlightenment and he was speaking about different some faiths and you're speaking about the bhagavad gita

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and he was speaking about just spirituality and you're speaking and he was and he was dropping some gems and so he was seemed to be on his way to enlightenment but it's amazing that this kind of down spiraling i and i do feel it is uh this is my take allahu alam i feel this is really jada and especially since you know this discussing on public on national tv that she that he isn't enough for her and that she

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needs to go to other men i mean i feel after that it's just been a rapid decline for will smith but it's fascinating just from a safe distance spectators observing and seeing where somebody has the entire dunya has everything and one could ask for you know he's from wealth to health to you know good looks to wisdom to

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legacy to i mean and still young and healthy and and yeah you know i guess we make dua we make dua for everyone you know we should always pray for everyone's betterment you know i mean it goes to show that money wealth accomplishments in and of themselves cannot do not guarantee inner peace that a person can have all of that and still be so broken

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may allah make things easy for everyone who is struggling i mean right so yeah get rid of hell yeah that would have been number one you know sometimes i do think to myself that you know if i had to deal with such and such problem like once you look at some people's problems and you think you know if i had to deal with these problems you know by the end of the day they'd be resolved [Laughter]

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most of these problems would be fixed [Laughter] but then we have our own problems that's how it is isn't it we can all deal with each other's problems so effectively

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