I'm human; all the Will Smith material was mesmerizing to me. Here's what I noticed: If you took Will Smith to task, you were possibly racist. If you didn't take Will Smith to task, you were possibly helping the spread of a macho pro-violence toxic awfulness all through the world. I'm sympathetic to both positions. I did think that white people tended to clutch their pearls a bit excessively about Will Smith; by contrast, think about Reese Witherspoon. In 2013, America's sweetheart was riding along with her intoxicated husband, who was stopped and cited for DUI. Witherspoon chose to harass the officer, who was just doing his job. "Do you know my name?" Witherspoon asked. "You're about to find out who I am. You're about to be on national news!" All this seems just about as embarrassing as Will Smith's behavior, but I can't remember the same national revulsion, back in 2013. Maybe I have a foggy brain. (Note that Witherspoon's...