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ill-smith-and-chris-rocks-oscars-2022-incident-everything-to-know/trying-to-make-peace/">Oscars incident</a> for instance. Yes, I know I am one of those people rehashing this incident yet again but this is a very recent and prime example of how celebrities can still in this day and age get away with anything.There is still a lot of support for Will Smith after he walked on stage and slapped Chris Rock across the face for a joke. A joke that Smith was seen laughing to initially.Now if your average Joe walked on stage and slapped Rock do you think that he would have been allowed to rejoin the audience and not face serious consequences afterward? Do you think Rock wouldn’t have pressed charges?Absolutely not.The rules are so different for celebrities; they don’t feel consequences the way an average human would.And for some reason, fans are so willing to blindly follow someone without actually stopping to question their actions, and this was the case with Savile.He was so popular he surely couldn’t be a twisted human being, could he?The crazy thing is in interviews he said a number of dark and questionable things about wanting to work in young girls' schools and how he ‘helps’ them when no one else is looking and you know what people did? They laughed. They thought it was a joke.Will Smith cried in his speech and said he was a ‘vessel for love’ after punching someone in the face and what did people do? They gave him a standing ovation. I didn’t realise hitting someone in the face made you a vessel for love. What the hell is wrong with people?Why does status give someone a free pass to all the messed up things they have done and are doing? Why are people so eager to turn a blind eye to all the wrong that is being done, just because they liked a show or movie this person was in?Now Will Smith is just a very recent example, but what about all the others that preceded him. People such as Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Mel Gibson and the list could go on a

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nd on. These are all people who were in a position of power and they abused it in the vilest way possible.They all abused their celebrity status or have managed to get away with certain things that a non-celebrity would never have been able to get away with.It is so mind-boggling to me that awareness has risen in our time, yet the mentality still remains the same. We are still making the same mistakes we did with Savile at the end of the day and we see it now. Regardless of what preceded Smiths' slap, there was absolutely no reason to assault someone on live TV and there is no one else who would have gotten away with it.This mindset needs to change. We need to stop thinking that celebrities automatically equal being good people. We need to stop putting them on a pedestal.They are humans like the rest of us with way too much power and more opportunity to carry out messed up things. Savile said it himself; he was able to do whatever he wanted thanks to his fame. Little did people know what he meant then.When people did question him, he used his celebrity status as a means to throw people off his scent, by claiming that people try to attack celebrities to make them look bad. This was also a tactic used by many of the infamous people I named above.If an average person wouldn’t be able to get away with this then why should a celebrity? I am aware that there are some like Weinsten and Epstein who did face the consequences of their actions, but how did they get away with it initially with the number of victims they had?We need to look to the past to learn from our mistakes, not repeat them.Our awareness may have risen but our mindset on celebrity status needs to change. They are not gods or even good people sometimes, they are just humans that make mistakes. They should never be exempted from facing the consequences of their actions. It was thanks to this mentality that Savile died without facing any consequences for his actions. We cannot let things like this slide ever again.</article></body>

Celebrity Culture Needs To Be Taken Off Its Pedestal

The power we allow celebrities to have needs to stop

I am writing this in the wake of watching the Jimmy Savile Netflix documentary called ‘Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story’ and to say that it disturbed me would be to put it lightly.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with Savile, he was a former DJ turned BBC TV personality, who had an extremely dark and twisted side and was discovered to be a closeted pedophile. The show documents his rise to fame and increasing popularity and how he used his celebrity status and friends in high places to abuse more than 400 victims.

And the messed up thing is he actually got away with it in his lifetime.

There are no words to truly depict the horror of his crimes. They are the most heinous things that a person could do, and to be able to get away with it because after all, he was a famous celebrity is absolutely disgusting and we need to learn from examples of this.

People did not want to come forward because of the fact that he was a well-known celebrity and they wouldn’t be believed against him. Victims were often urged to drop the case. How could it be that victims were basically being told that they wouldn’t be believed against someone famous and they should drop it?

Luckily now in the world, we have more awareness than ever and if there is one huge benefit of social media, it’s the ability to create exposure and more awareness for things like this. However, aren’t we still turning a blind eye to people of this celebrity status?

I am aware that these 2 cases are in no way the same, but let's take the whole Oscars incident for instance. Yes, I know I am one of those people rehashing this incident yet again but this is a very recent and prime example of how celebrities can still in this day and age get away with anything.

There is still a lot of support for Will Smith after he walked on stage and slapped Chris Rock across the face for a joke. A joke that Smith was seen laughing to initially.

Now if your average Joe walked on stage and slapped Rock do you think that he would have been allowed to rejoin the audience and not face serious consequences afterward? Do you think Rock wouldn’t have pressed charges?

Absolutely not.

The rules are so different for celebrities; they don’t feel consequences the way an average human would.

And for some reason, fans are so willing to blindly follow someone without actually stopping to question their actions, and this was the case with Savile.

He was so popular he surely couldn’t be a twisted human being, could he?

The crazy thing is in interviews he said a number of dark and questionable things about wanting to work in young girls' schools and how he ‘helps’ them when no one else is looking and you know what people did? They laughed. They thought it was a joke.

Will Smith cried in his speech and said he was a ‘vessel for love’ after punching someone in the face and what did people do? They gave him a standing ovation. I didn’t realise hitting someone in the face made you a vessel for love. What the hell is wrong with people?

Why does status give someone a free pass to all the messed up things they have done and are doing? Why are people so eager to turn a blind eye to all the wrong that is being done, just because they liked a show or movie this person was in?

Now Will Smith is just a very recent example, but what about all the others that preceded him. People such as Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Mel Gibson and the list could go on and on. These are all people who were in a position of power and they abused it in the vilest way possible.

They all abused their celebrity status or have managed to get away with certain things that a non-celebrity would never have been able to get away with.

It is so mind-boggling to me that awareness has risen in our time, yet the mentality still remains the same. We are still making the same mistakes we did with Savile at the end of the day and we see it now. Regardless of what preceded Smiths' slap, there was absolutely no reason to assault someone on live TV and there is no one else who would have gotten away with it.

This mindset needs to change. We need to stop thinking that celebrities automatically equal being good people. We need to stop putting them on a pedestal.

They are humans like the rest of us with way too much power and more opportunity to carry out messed up things. Savile said it himself; he was able to do whatever he wanted thanks to his fame. Little did people know what he meant then.

When people did question him, he used his celebrity status as a means to throw people off his scent, by claiming that people try to attack celebrities to make them look bad. This was also a tactic used by many of the infamous people I named above.

If an average person wouldn’t be able to get away with this then why should a celebrity? I am aware that there are some like Weinsten and Epstein who did face the consequences of their actions, but how did they get away with it initially with the number of victims they had?

We need to look to the past to learn from our mistakes, not repeat them.

Our awareness may have risen but our mindset on celebrity status needs to change. They are not gods or even good people sometimes, they are just humans that make mistakes. They should never be exempted from facing the consequences of their actions. It was thanks to this mentality that Savile died without facing any consequences for his actions. We cannot let things like this slide ever again.