Whoopi Goldberg defends audience with standing ovation for Will Smith’s Oscar win after Chris Rock Slap

The View moderator said Will Smith gave the survivors “the advantage of the doubt” during his Oscar win, and they probably clapped before they even realized what was going on.

dude Goldberg He explained that he understood the people standing in the queue. by Will Smith Oscar’s acceptance speech in which he was asked to leave after being punched during a discussion about the Academy’s announcement Chris RockOpen Seeing Thursday, March 31. “I think it was just people who got up and did stupid things because they said, ‘Okay, they’re all awake.’ I doubt it because I’ve been in these situations,” he explained.

CHRIS ROCK STILL SAYS “WORK WHAT HAPPENED”: The comedian has broken his silence on what happened between him and Will Smith. #oscar As the Academy said, Smith refused to leave after discussion – #Seeing co-host @TaraSetmayer Answer. https://t.co/e6mZPfg8Kd pic.twitter.com/AEG1jm7xIX

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Earlier in the conversation, Whoopi said that everyone on the show should be “confused” like any viewer and were probably unsure of what to do with the situation. Host guest standing ovation Tara Setmayer To a standing ovation, Will explained why he continued to show why some people view the “Hollywood elite” as “hypocritical”. Whoopi, a pre-Oscar board member, once again explained that you can’t blame everyone for their reaction to the win. †“I wouldn’t have stood up, but that has nothing to do with why people do it.”

Whoopi then showed how quickly some people react; this seemed to imply that many people stood up after seeing the others. Whoopi explained that “at the time” a lot of people were probably standing “without even realizing that you were doing something stupid.”

Whoopi applauded the term “Hollywood elite”, describing the large number of people working in the entertainment industry. “I want to stop this elite thing because so many of us work to live. We work, we cash checks, we have families. We try to do the same thing, the good things that everyone is trying to do, and it really pisses me off when people start talking about people who work in Hollywood, not just actors. So please be specific when talking about actors. “If you’re angry at someone or how they acted, don’t force it on all of us because that’s like saying all blacks love chicken.”

spring of joy he also reiterated his opinion, saying that you can’t group all the people in the entertainment industry by calling back a “Hot Topic” debate that had already happened in Congress. “You can’t paint all the people in Hollywood with a brush, you can’t say all these members of Congress are having an orgy,” he joked.

After her heated reaction, Tara said that the standing ovation still seemed inappropriate, and Whoopi asked a rhetorical question before saying that she had given him the benefit of the doubt. “When you hit Chris Rock, do you really think they cheered him up?” she said, before speaking to herself, asking if Will had run onto the stage if someone else had told the joke.