Actor Will Smith’s Oscars confrontation with Chris Rock has a backstory, as many users on Twitter are pointing out; one element of contention is a joke Rock made about Jada Pinkett Smith when he was the host of the Academy Awards ceremony in 2016.
That year, Pinkett Smith boycotted the ceremony as part of the #OscarsSoWhite protest campaign, which called out the historic lack of diversity in nominees for the industry honors. Rock poked fun at her boycott, his joke suggesting that because Pinkett Smith hadn’t earned a nomination, or otherwise formally included in the awards ceremony alongside her peers that year, that her protest didn’t merit respect.
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