The Oscars smack heard ‘round the world’. Was it staged?

Actor Will Smith walked on stage & brutally slapped Chris Rock after Chris made a joke about Will’s wife. Will Smith then won an Oscar award & tearfully apologizes, but fails to even mention Chris Rock by name in the apology. Doesn’t this show the elitist privilege these folks have that they can get away with this? It is similar to Eric Adams essentially forcing New Yorkers to take a vaccine or lose their careers. However, when it is Basketball player Kyrie Irving, he is able to not take the jab.