Bear in mind that it's not yet settled what the high-status take on this is.
It could be the above. But it could also be "Will Smith is bad because Toxic Masculinity", combined with "Defending a woman's "honour" reinforces patriarchal assumptions."
So play it safe.
Or it could be "Smith wouldn't have slapped a white comedian. This episode highlights how deeply embedded structural racism is under Late Capitalism."
Tread carefully. You don't want to be on the cringe side of the argument, do you?
This one won't make the final cut, I can already tell you that.
My recommendation is to sit back, watch what the high-status people are saying, and wait for a pattern to emerge.
Once it does, you can pretend that this coincides with the position at which you have also arrived, completely independently.
The good thing is: After a few minutes, you will start believing it yourself. You will think that this is your genuine, honestly held opinion, and that all the applause and approval you get for expressing it is just a bonus, but by no means the reason why you hold that view.
How do I know that this will work? Very simple: because that's how the average Twitter user arrives at every opinion they hold.
The highest-status take will have to include some reference to Corbo.
That ain't it either.
It has Corbo in it, which is good, but it's a generic Corbo take. Needs to be more specific.
You know how the Spanish always have 2 surnames?
I once tried to fill in a Spanish online form, and left the field for the 2nd surname blank. Didn't work. It kept saying "You must enter your second surname", and yelling "I DON'T HAVE ONE!" at the screen didn't do the trick.
So...
...in the end, I put in "Niemietz Niemietz", just to be able to go on to the next page.
I'm only now realising how I missed a trick. This could have made a great Guardian article about how my identity was being erased by postcolonial Hispano-supremacist ethno-nationalism.
It almost writes itself. It starts with describing the trauma I experienced, because that online form was essentially telling me: "You're not a real person! You're less than fully human. There's no space for people like you in our society."
I'd then move on to the Spanish Empire.
"[T]he Alliance for Workers’ Liberty [...] had historically stood candidates against Labour [...] but the movement deregistered with the Electoral Commission two days after Jeremy Corbyn was elected party leader, in order to support his leadership."
"[T]he ‘real lost promise’ of Corbynism [...] was the result of the Labour left’s historic commitment to an incremental, parliamentary road to socialism, one which never materialised, nor ever could have." workersliberty.org/story/2021-11-…
"[T]here’s something [...] downright racist [...] about white people’s reaction to the [...] smack. [...]
[T]here’s a layer of hyper-violence that’s being projected on to Smith simply because he is a Black man [...]
[T]he backlash against Smith is rooted in [...] anti-Blackness"
"Smith is being held up to much stricter standards than white men [...]
[T]his kind of performative pearl-clutching is only ever reserved for Black men"
"But white outrage isn’t the only problem. For Black people who have been conditioned to constantly perform the most non-threatening version of themselves in order to retain white approval, the image of a Black man being “violent” [...] must have felt like an abomination."
I mean, feel free to continue buying masks from Dr Jujujujujujujulia, and post selfies of how you're wearing them even when you're alone in the middle of the desert, or on a boat in the ocean. But the pandemic is over.
Covies derive this weird sense of moral superiority from insisting that Covid is still a thing.
And they'll only get worse, the more elite-status Continuity Covidism becomes.
"Seemingly, in [Dominic Raab's] mind – and in the minds of a large swathe of the British population – free speech is being “whittled away” in the name of wokery."
-Yes. And that's correct. independent.co.uk/voices/dominic…
"[P]oliticians [...] are deliberately creating a bogeyman that looks [...] like a hipster [...] wearing ironic glasses and shouting at people for saying things that were once deemed perfectly acceptable [...]
This millennial meme-on-legs is a convenient figure"
-It's also real.
"Contrary to what the Conservatives would have us believe, there is no “woke” superpower slamming a hand over your mouth every time you’re about to say something politically incorrect."
-Is that right? Try saying something politically incorrect, then, and see what happens.