Chris Rock slammed for joke about Nicole Brown Simpson’s murder

Throughout a stand-up demonstrate in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday, the comic, 57, revealed that he was requested to host subsequent year’s Oscars soon after Will Smith infamously slapped him at the 2022 present.

Rock then joked that he would not go back again to the Academy Awards simply because it would be like inquiring Simpson “to go back to the restaurant” exactly where she left her glasses right before she was killed, according to the Arizona Republic.

Simpson was stabbed to dying in 1994, and her ex-partner, O.J. Simpson, stood demo for murder in one of the most highly-publicised circumstances in record, Web site Six reports.

He was acquitted, but the verdict was controversial.

Men and women on social media slammed Rock for likening the two incidents, and are now saying probably he deserved to get assaulted by Smith, 53, for producing a G.I. Jane joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from alopecia, for remaining bald.

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“The much more Chris Rock talks, the a lot more you start out to see why Will Smith smacked fire outta him,” just one human being, receiving much more than 14,000 “likes,” tweeted.

A further sarcastically additional, “Yeah chris rock – you obtaining slapped for conversing s – t and nicole brown simpson’s brutal murder are thoroughly similar situations. great analogy. you totally treatment about violence towards women. fully distinct to us now.”

Photojournalist Gregory Anderson agreed, pointing out that most likely Fred Goldman, the father of Ron Goldman, who was killed along with Nicole, really should have the “honour” of slapping Rock now for the undesirable joke.

“Comparing what took place to him to what transpired to Nicole Brown Simpson is genuinely tasteless and not at all amusing,” he extra.

Even so, some others called out the simple fact that the common community have been not as severe on Rock when the butt of his joke was Pinkett-Smith, and claimed it’s due to the fact she’s a “black girl.”

Just one consumer tweeted, “Disrespect the Black woman, & that is okay. But dammit, disrespect a lifeless White woman & he’s hated.”

A different wrote, “So you [white women] who ran to Chris Rock’s defence just after Will slapped the 💩out of him, for insulting and offending Jada, nevertheless on Chris Rocks side? I know you didn’t treatment about Jada’s feelings bring about she’s a [black woman], but will you say ‘It was only a joke’ now that he’s offended Nicole’s Spouse and children?”

A rep for Rock did not quickly return Page Six’s request for comment on the criticism.

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