Stop making Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock more than what it is!

https://slate.com/culture/2022/03/will-smith-chris-rock-slap-nothing-more-or-less.html

In the first 24 hours after The Slap, "every possible reaction to the incident has already been aired," says Joel Anderson. "Some people have understandably cautioned against any possible expression of tacit support for violence in public, as if we’re not already awash in a culture that already glorifies it. Others placed blame on Rock for gleefully passing along a tasteless joke that made light of Jada Pinkett-Smith’s autoimmune disorder. A few have pointed out the hypocrisy of the Academy’s public statement against violence, noting that it has long coddled and even glorified accused abusers like Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski, and Woody Allen, among others. Others connected the moment to racism, sexism, ableism, and even the larger breakdown in social mores in recent years. Like so many controversial events these days, it has taken on a mirage-like quality of something that might explain what’s wrong in American life, in different ways to different people...We don’t have to take this too seriously. We don’t have to live like this, mapping complex social phenomena on something fundamentally as straightforward and unexceptional as dudes using a personal slight—or a perceived one—as a pretext for getting physical. Unsurprisingly, the social media response has followed its own inevitable arc, from shocked to bemused to serious to exhausting."