I told myself I wasn’t even going to mention this year’s Academy Awards show.  Hollywood is filled with Woke A-holes who almost always make movies either about superheroes I never heard of, or people pushing bizarre causes about which I am greatly unconcerned.  Either way, I’m not paying good money to see that crap.  Although that would be reason enough not to watch the show, when you also have to listen to 3 hours of left-wing harangues from the supremely ignorant, self-centered, self-important, spoiled, overpaid, imbeciles who work in that industry, forget it.  Making prisoners watch that show would be a civil rights violation.  Then, as things turned out, the biggest story to come out of the show had nothing to do with any film.  The big story, the only story we’ve heard for the past week, was that Will Smith bitch-slapped Chris Rock on live TV.  Some critics have complained that the slapping incident took away from the show.  They’re wrong.  Without the slap, the show already would be forgotten.  I gave up watching it years ago.  This year, out of 10 films nominated for Best Picture, I recognized only 3, and saw none of them.  King Richard was familiar only because Serena Williams is on half the commercials on TV.  When she’s not on, Kevin Hart is on.  Too bad Will Smith didn’t slap him too.  I’d heard of Dune and West Side Story only because they’re remakes.  Other than that, there was nothing to see there.  Just 3 hours of so-called celebrities indulging their Woke psychoses by pandering and virtue signaling.  3 hours of rich A-holes, lecturing about how America sucks, Florida really sucks, and life is unfair.  3 hours of chants, slogans and ribbons, full of tripe and bullshit, and signifying nothing.  The Hollywood crowd has to come together for the various awards shows to perpetuate the notion that they somehow play a role in society.  Actors, most of whom have never had said anything that wasn’t written for them by someone else, must show support for the latest Woke cause, and must condemn any action that is insufficiently Woke.  These are the people who spend their time denouncing others whom they claim are “privileged,” yet take no notice of the fact that they are the most privileged group of all.  Woke wingnuts account for no more than about 20% of the population, and that number may be high.  These are the Socialists, Communists,  Anarchists, and other malcontents.  They worship diversity, and they are a diverse group, which includes over-educated blowhards in the educational establishment, many young people who are the victims of educational malpractice at the hands of the first group, and so-called under-served communities, consisting of minorities of all stripes, who preach “equity,” but are just looking for another handout.  And atop the pyramid of Woke wingnuts sit the Hollywood celebrities.  These are the people who bleed for the underprivileged, decry poverty, then go home to their gated estates in Malibu.  They denounce climate change, then get on their private jets and fly to Cannes.  They’re against all privilege except their own.  Any who criticize them are insulted.  Any who fail to conform to their perverted beliefs must be destroyed.  It’s their private world, and  outsiders are not permitted to interfere with them.  It’s almost like organized crime.  Call it La Woka Nostra, or LWN for short.  This woke thing of ours.  Except we can’t call the members of LWN “made men.”  They’re not all men.  Some of them appear to be women, but I can’t say for sure because, after all, I’m not a biologist.  The members of LWN can do whatever they want to one another, but if you ever put your hands on a made member of LWN, you’re dead.  Don’t doubt me.  The Will Smith slap proves this point.  Donald Trump is not a made member of LWN, so they’ve been persecuting him for 7 years for crimes he never committed.  LWN members can advocate beheading Trump without consequences.  They can march and chant, and burn and loot without fear of reprisal, but if a mere citizen dares to protest something like the result of an election, he goes to the D.C. jail and they throw away the key.   LWN will investigate phony crimes over and over again, but when one LWN member slaps another made member on TV, a clear case of assault, there’s no investigation and no prosecution.  La Woka Nostra has no use for the authorities.  They’ll have a “sit down” and work it out.  “You’re mistaken.  I didn’t see an  assault.”  And if there was, you can’t blame a LWN Best Actor, a Capo di Tutti A-holes.  Oscar host Amy Schumer slipped up and announced the Smith slap left her “triggered and traumatized.”  Schumer was immediately put in her place by a host of LWN  “associates.”  In Forbes, Janice Gassam Asare said the Will Smith slap was only an issue because it took place in front of white people.  “By saying that Will Smith shouldn’t have reacted that way because of how he will be perceived by the largely white audience is the perpetuation of the white gaze.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Eisa Nefertari Ulen went further, “the well-documented norms, policies and images that have damaged Black people” in the Academy could have contributed to that night.  “Rather than punitively discipline Will Smith for his violence, the Academy and the Hollywood machine should take this opportunity to reflect and recognize their part in fomenting it.”  “Race Scholar” Dr. Maia Niguel Hoskin added, “This is about a much larger systemic issue rooted in white supremacist culture designed to police the behavior of Blacks amongst the who’s who in Hollywood and beyond.  Respectability politics suggest that equity and fair treatment require that Black people — both inside and outside of Hollywood — conduct ourselves in a manner deemed acceptable to whites.”  I must say that I agree with them.  My first impression when I heard about the slap was, “why is this news?”  A black man got “dissed” by another black man, and things erupted into violence?  I’m a criminal defense attorney.  Sadly, that happens all the time, albeit not on live TV, and what’s the harm here?  Chris Rock isn’t complaining.  On the contrary, he said, “That was the greatest night in the history of television.”  Maybe Will can slap him every year to boost the ratings.  I’d pay real money to see more of these self-righteous pricks slap the shit out of each other.  Maybe it could be a game show, “The Masked Slapper.”  Anyhow, thank you Will Smith.  If you hadn’t gone all General Patton on Chris Rock’s ass we’d have nothing to talk about.