Everybody Hates Chris(tianity) - Especially The Oscars and Will Smith
What happens when one multimillionaire celebrity assaults another on live TV? You give him the Academy Award for Best Actor, obviously.
Another race-to-the-bottom Oscars broadcast has come and gone, and with it a disturbing glimpse of what’s under the hood of America’s cultural elite.
Turns out it’s much uglier than Hollywood’s infamous penchant for covering up sexual assault within its own walls.
No, judging from the Oscars broadcast, the state of the entertainment industry is a witch’s brew of racial violence, economic privilege, lawlessness, and of course, a dying media machine to spin it all.
As you’ve undoubtedly seen multiple times by now, Will Smith walked onstage and slapped comedian Chris Rock across the face as he presented the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
There has been rampant speculation about “what did we just see?” ranging from totally staged to being a Scientology thing.
But when taken in a broader context, it seems there’s more evidence for this being a public humiliation ritual designed to exalt one and denigrate another.
First, this:
Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly used as a form of judicially sanctioned punishment in previous centuries. (via Wikipedia)
But while Chris Rock was the ostensible victim in this scenario, he was merely a symbolic stand-in for the American public at large.
It’s highly likely what you and I saw on a continuous loop for roughly a 48-hour news cycle was a public humiliation of the TV-watching masses, designed to shock, outrage and demoralize.
Much like the majority of the MSM.
The topic has been exhaustively and excruciatingly covered elsewhere, so while I won’t spend much time on the details, I would like to quickly note that post-Slap, never again should Middle America heed the Hollywood virtue signal chant of “words equal violence”.
We no longer need to even feign interest in what the millionaire woke mob has to say about “protecting” the least among us when the answer for them is clearly more violence, not less.
Hey, Hollywood: deal first with the institutionalized sexual and physical violence in your highest ranks before you ever again lecture Hardworking Average Americans about “equity” and “justice”.
Now where were we?
Ah, yes. The Oscars as blasphemy porn.
For years now but accelerating exponentially under the COVID regime, our nation has been under assault by those holding to a violent dystopian anti-Christ worldview whose crown jewel is the perversion and sexualization of our children, right in front of our faces.
It’s long been my conviction that just as Hollywood has been used for decades to hypnotize a sleepwalking public, it would ultimately become a vehicle to awaken many (though sadly still not all) to the darkest horrors of our age.
I’m convinced that the Slap was one more step - possibly even a pivotal one - in that process.
Before we can even broach the public humiliation ritual threshold, let’s acknowledge this was first a personal shaming of Rock by Smith.
A power move.
A denigration.
A display of privilege and hierarchy from one class of the elite to another.
Consider the following:
As of 2022, Will Smith’s estimated net worth was roughly $350 million.
Rock’s estimated net worth? $60 million.
This is how Hollywood - and much of corporate America - operates. In dollar signs, not virtue signals. Contrary to the narrative that dominates our time, the currency of raw power is not limited to one race or ethnonationality.
It belongs solely to the ultra rich. Period.
Since the incident, Smith has announced his resignation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, adding he “betrayed the trust of the Academy”. It’s unclear what will happen to his Best Actor Oscar.
Of course, this was not the first time the two have feuded publicly: Rock was also hosting in 2016 when he mocked Pinkett Smith’s boycott of the Oscars after the Twitter-fueled “#OscarsSoWhite” campaign.
He also poked fun at Smith for earning a $20 million payday for the 1999 flop “Wild Wild West”.
The two stars have worked together multiple times over the course of many decades, which surely should raise some eyebrows about the validity of the Slap.
Here’s where it gets slightly weird.
Oddly enough, Rock and Smith also worked together on a 1995 episode of “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” in which Rock played a dual role as both a comedian and the comedian’s sister - which saw Rock wearing a wig and in full makeup.
Known for blockbusters like “Independence Day” and “Bad Boys”, many are unaware Smith’s first major movie role was in a low-budget film version of the Broadway hit “Six Degrees of Separation”, in which Smith played a male “hustler” who befriends a wealthy Manhattan art dealer and his wife.
In one scene of the movie where Smith’s character was to passionately kiss a male co-star, Smith reportedly refused because he feared such a move could convey a wrong image of him and end his movie career prematurely, according to iMDB.
Years and hundreds of millions of box office dollars later, Smith told Entertainment Weekly he regretted how he handled that situation.
Since then, the Smith family has made headlines for nontraditional practices such as non-monagamy and voicing support for the LGBTQ+ community.
Their firstborn Jaden has been called an “ambassador for gender equality”, ostensibly for his habit of wearing dresses to public events starting as a 16-year-old boy.
Daughter Willow, meanwhile, has stated she would consider being in a “throuple”, that is, a bisexual, polyamorous relationship with a man and a woman.
“I feel like I could be 'polyfidelitous’ [in a committed relationship with multiple people] with those two people,” she told told mom Jada and grandmother Adrienne Banfield Norris during an episode of Red Table Talk.
Destruction of traditional marriage.
Dismissal of biological identity.
Glorification of sexual perversion.
Suffice to say, the Smith clan is one whose public values run in direct opposition to the Christian worldview.
Put another way: the Smith family has a history of openly espousing anti-Christ values, often on very public stages.
Not to put too fine a point on it, here’s one last image of Jaden and the clan. Check out his t-shirt.
It’s actually a skirt. With a faceless emaciated man on a cross.
And lest you, dear reader, cry foul about veering from the father Will into son Jaden’s lane, consider that his widely publicized adolescent gender-bending is now U.S. government public policy - as of the very same week The Slap was broadcast to a dwindling but still captive audience.
Days before the Ocars, the Biden Administration declared its support for trans surgeries and “puberty blockers” for adolescents and children, calling such measures “crucial to overall health and wellbeing”.
In a document ironically entitled “Gender Affirming Care and Young People", the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs outlined a number of controversial surgeries under the banner of “early gender-affirming care” for non-binary or trans-identified minors.
The surgeries run the spectrum from genital modification and mutilation to mastectomy and breast enhancements - again, specifically for minors.
Half of the four “gender affirming care” procedures are either only partially reversible or non-reversible.
Again, this is the federal government’s official recommendations for children.
While the document claims that puberty blockers are reversible, a report from the U.K.’s National Health Service states that “[l]ittle is known about the long-term side effects of hormone or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria”, according to The Christian Post.
Also this week, elementary schools in Austin, Texas, celebrated “Pride Week” by handing out rainbow flags and buttons to 3rd graders and warning them to not tell their parents about what was discussed during the festivities.
The week concluded with a “Pride Out!” event held at Eastside Early College High School in Austin, complete with face painting, Popsicles, and performances from local drag queens like Diamond Dior Davenport.
“I love drag queens,” one 12-year-old student was quoted as saying by the Texas Tribune. “They’re the biggest idols of my life.”
The event marked the second Pride Week performance for Davenport and another Austin ISD grad, Marilyn Williams, who were both invited by a former teacher, according to the Tribune.
Prior to the week’s events, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened with a letter reminding Austin ISD officials that under the state Education Code “when it comes to sex education, parents - not beauracrats - have the final say.
The very same week - do you believe in coincidences? - Disney Corp executives, irate over Florida’s newly-passed law banning the sexual indoctrination of young children in our public schools, announced it was implementing a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and regularly “adding queerness” to children’s programming.
Heck, even the Cartoon Network - you know, that basic cable channel that is known for airing animated content for children - is pushing this agenda on its social channels.
Yes, all of these events occurred in the same week.
All while the rest of the country was busy dissecting, analyzing, and somehow defending the Slap.
Look, if you’ve gotten this far, take a breather. I know it’s a lot to synthesize.
But put in its proper context, we have a Slap Heard ‘Round the World on live TV involving two Hollywood stars whose careers have at times been outwardly hostile to the Christian faith, one of whom has a family who makes headlines by explicitly mocking some of the fundamental truths of the Bible.
The Slap, meanwhile, has become a metaphor for the national humiliation the American public is currently undergoing as they watch - seemingly helplessly or with heartbreaking disinterest - as their children are moved one step closer toward a lawless paradigm in which they answer to the culture and the state, not their own parents.
To my fellow Bible-believing moms and dads: what, exactly, are we waiting for?
If this isn’t a red line for you, where is it?
Are your kids worth risking your professional viability and personal standing in the community?
Is their health and safety more important to you than your stuff? Your career?
All of it brings to mind the words of Christ Jesus, who warned that anyone who would harm a child - which undoubtedly includes deforming their God-given bodies - would find themselves wishing they were never born.
“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
- Matt. 18:6
May those of us entrusted with the care of these little ones - true Biblical care, not the values of Will Smith - never forget those words.