Who was in the wrong in the Will Smith slap of Chris Rock? Let’s go to the polls


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Will Smith (right) approaches Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Oscars. Photo: AFP

According to new polling, three in five Americans disapprove of Will Smith’s slapping of Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards after a poorly received joke about Smith’s wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith. But there are some groups that think Rock was “more wrong” than Smith in the altercation at the Oscars ceremony.

And those aren’t the only seemingly contradictory results.

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