During the Saturday night release of his new Netflix special, “Selective Outrage,” comedian Chris Rock took a comedic hammer to a number of cultural topics, particularly the Chris Rock slap and Meghan Markle.
Beginning the unapologetically funny show, Rock made fun of those who get “triggered” and think that “words hurt,” saying “Anybody that says that words hurt has never been punched in the face. Words hurt when you write them on a brick.”
He next torched cancel culture, saying “don’t fall into the woke trap,” and ripping into the selective outrage behind cancel culture, saying “The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage. Motherf***ers typing out woke a*s tweets on a phone made by child slaves. Not only is everybody full of s***, every business is full of s***.”
Giving an example, Rock said “I was in the mall the other day, I went by the store Lululemon, I walk by and in the window of every Lululemon there’s a sign that says, ‘we don’t support racism, sexism, discrimination, or hate.’ And I’m like, ‘who gives a f***?’ You’re just selling yoga pants. I don’t need your yoga pants politics.”
He then got to mocking Meghan Markle and her ridiculous claims of racism, saying “‘Oprah, they’re so racist they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be.’ ’m like, ‘That’s not racist, because even black people want to know how brown the baby going to be. S*** we check behind the ears – that’s a scientific test because you’ve got to know what kind of black child you going to get.’”
Continuing, on the Meghan Markle topic, he said “I know her dilemma: black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws. Oh it’s hard. It’s so hard, it’s very hard – but it ain’t as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her black in-laws. Now that s*** is really hard. Meghan Markle, I know the dilemma. I’m like, ‘If you black and you wanted to be accepted by your white in-laws then you need to marry a Kardashian because they accept everybody.’”
And, of course, he mocked Will Smith for the infamous Oscars slap and his wife’s infidelity, saying:
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“Will Smith practices selective outrage because everyone that knows what happened, everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn’t have any entanglements. His wife was f***** her son’s friend.”
“Now I normally wouldn’t talk about this s***. But for some reason these n****** put that shit on the internet. I have no idea why two talented people would do something that f***** low down. What the f***. We’ve all been cheated on, everybody in here has been cheated on. None of us have been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television, like, “Hey I was sucking somebody else’s d***, how did that make you feel?” Why the f*** would you do that s***?”
“A lot of people are like, ‘Chris why didn’t you do nothing back?’ Because I got parents that’s why, because I was raised. And you know what my parents taught me? Don’t fight in front of white people.”