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Comedian Chris Rock is not a fan of what society has become and he is not frightened of the woke mob when speaking about it.
In his new Netflix special he did not shy away from taking on woke people and woke companies he says are “full of s**t.”
“Anybody that says that words hurt has never been punched in the face,” he said as the audience laughed. “Words hurt when you write them on a brick.”
He said that people are getting ahead in their workplaces by “cancelling” the people that are in positions above them. “Don’t fall into the woke trap,” the comedian said.
“The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage,” he said. And he insisted that people who have “selective outrage” are “full of s***.” “Motherf***ers typing out woke a*s tweets on a phone made by child slaves,” he said. “Not only is everybody full of s***, every business is full of s***.”
He then told a story about his experience visiting a popular store.
“I was in the mall the other day, I went by the store Lululemon, I walk by and in the window of every Lululemon there’s a sign that says, ‘we don’t support racism, sexism, discrimination, or hate,’” the comedian said. “And I’m like, ‘who gives a f***?’ You’re just selling yoga pants. I don’t need your yoga pants politics.”
He went on to talk about other controversial topics like the royal family and, in particular, Prince Harry and Dutchess Meghan Markle and their cries of racism when they spoke to Oprah Winfrey.
“‘Oprah, they’re so racist they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be’,” he said. “I’m like, ‘That’s not racist, because even black people want to know how brown the baby going to be. S*** we check behind the ears – that’s a scientific test because you’ve got to know what kind of black child you going to get.’”
“I know her dilemma: black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws. Oh it’s hard. It’s so hard, it’s very hard – but it ain’t as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her black in-laws. Now that s*** is really hard,” he said. “Meghan Markle, I know the dilemma. I’m like, ‘If you black and you wanted to be accepted by your white in-laws then you need to marry a Kardashian because they accept everybody.’”
He then spent some of his show on the attack on him by Will Smith at the Oscars.
“Will Smith practices selective outrage because everyone that knows what happened, everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn’t have any entanglements,” the comedian said. “His wife was f***** her son’s friend.”
“Now I normally wouldn’t talk about this s***. But for some reason these n****** put that shit on the internet. I have no idea why two talented people would do something that f***** low down. What the f***,” he said. “We’ve all been cheated on, everybody in here has been cheated on. None of us have been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television, like, “Hey I was sucking somebody else’s d***, how did that make you feel?” Why the f*** would you do that s***?”
And he addressed his reasons for not striking back at Smith after he had been slapped.
“A lot of people are like, ‘Chris why didn’t you do nothing back?’ Because I got parents that’s why, because I was raised,” he said. “And you know what my parents taught me? Don’t fight in front of white people.”
Last March Smith issued an apology to the comedian after slapping him.
WARNING: Strong language.
Chris Rock new special funny af🤣 Here’s his opener hitting the nail on the head how “woke” culture has made everyone become so full of sh#t! pic.twitter.com/rzT8cjv9r6
— Kas (@Lifewithkas1) March 5, 2023
“Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive,” the 53-year-old actor captioned his post on Instagram. “My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally.”
“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris,” he noted further.”I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.”
“I would also like to apologize to the Academy, the producers of the show, all the attendees and everyone watching around the world,” Smith noted further. “I would like to apologize to the Williams Family and my King Richard Family. I deeply regret that my behavior has stained what has been an otherwise gorgeous journey for all of us. I am a work in progress. Sincerely, Will.”
