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A Tourette's syndrome activist shouted the N-word at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo during the BAFTAs: Breaking down the controversy (archive.today)
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The ceremony aired on a two-hour delay on BBC One in the U.K. and on E! in the U.S. and yet the slur remained in the broadcast. Deadline noted that other remarks were censored, including the BBC cutting Akinola Davies Jr.’s “free Palestine” comment at the end of his speech.

I can excuse the dude with the verbal tic having an outburst, understandable. What gets my goat is that you fucks censored the Free Palestine comment instead.

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[–] 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Yes, I read into this a bit as well. Very tough situation on all sides. Apparently he said racial slurs to another black cast/crew member three times on the night too.

Coprolalia is apprently one of the most difficult forms of tourettes - with it basically just making you anxious about saying the worst thing possible to say - and then blurting it out.

You see it in the movie that was based off him - where he blurts out he's smuggling heroin to policemen, or getting into fights with people bigger than him.

Apparently in real life he yelled "Fuck the queen" as he was getting knighted, shouted to police that he had a bomb, and then yelled at Prince Charles that Camilla takes it up the ----.

Disgraceful that the BBC didn't edit out the incident at the ceremony, and handled it like they did, but did edit out the Palestine moment (and apparently another joke from the host about tensions in America). Someone should've been there to give more of an apology than 'sorry if you were offended' too.

I do get that maybe it's tough because you're then editing out a person's disability on an evening when their disability is at the forefront of a movie that's being celebrated, but on the whole I don't see an upside to keeping it in. It's upsetting for Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo - along with any other black person who's seen it really - and the man with tourettes has been ripped apart - with Jamie Foxx even saying 'he meant it'...

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    So I never saw Sinners, but if the movie explores that, and I don't know how it does, then I think I'd side with not censoring it because of that. I think obviously someone goes up to the duo to explain and apologize and it seems that what the center of the controversy is. In my mind censoring-not censoring is secondary and the headline that centralizes the illness seems mortifying if I were in his shoes. I know "Half-hearted apology after awkward moment" isn't good input for the outrage machine, but that's what the situation should be. If someone on crutches fell onto the red carpet while you're walking, you wouldn't be like "you asshole!" This should be the kind of embarrassing that he should talk about in a stand up comedy routine, not blasting him into the news.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh no, Sinners explores severe racism and cultural appropriation - white vampires try to infiltrate a blues party, to steal their music and bodies - or something along those lines, I don't know, I didn't really enjoy it that much so I never tried to get to the bottom of it.

    I meant that the man with tourettes had a movie about his life being celebrated at the BAFTAs, with lots of nominations and the coveted 'best male actor' going to the lead of the movie Robert Aramayo - portraying the man with tourettes in the audience.

    Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were talking about Sinners at the time it happened, but its all on the same evening. As I said, I think they should've just censored it for everyone's sake, but I can see some sort of argument as to why they didn't.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    @ChestRockwell@hexbear.net

    Ohhhhh, I definitely skimmed the article and what you were saying and came away believing the duo were talking about a movie in which tourettes was being explored as a theme when it happened.

    Then yeah, censoring would have been prudent. But all the same, the fallout should have been negligible because someone apologizes to the two actors. Short of that, the controversy should have been the negligence of the hosts. And I suppose they optimized for clicks with the title while trying to do justice with the first sentence being

    Lindo said he and his "Sinners" costar "did what we had to do" while presenting, but he wished "someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterwards."

    So a lot of annoyances along the way to get to this point. It made for sloppy handling of the situation. Even if you're not prepared, you, the people in charge of the event, not the person with the disability, just go up to them and say sorry.

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