Far be it from me to criticize somebody very harshly for dishing out a little rough justice in a theater full of people.
Of course Chris Rock had it coming. That seems clear enough to me. But it also is clear to me that if I always gave others what they had coming, I’d probably be in jail.
(And if I myself always got what I had coming, I’d definitely be in jail.)
I do worry a little about Will Smith, though, who seems to be having a drawn-out public breakdown of the sort that almost always ends badly. There is some reason to believe that there are significant family problems in play. And Will Smith has been in enough action movies to appreciate just how much Hollywood loves watching a fall from a great height.
Smith should take care that the scene at the Oscars is the end of the shenanigans rather than a middle chapter in an increasingly sad story.