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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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[–] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

It's not "whenever they saw a child"

He has an uncontrollable condition, and I'd say easily 8/10 people online complaining about him are claiming that he chose to say what he said.

How does everyone being impatient with people being willfully ignorant harm you?

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

    Does he say it to white people?

    You do not need to explain tourettes, I understand tourrettes. It's almost patronizing to assume this is a conversation about not understanding what a disability is.

    This is a conversation on mitigating harm, and you can cause harm and slurs cause harm even if you're disabled and it's unintentional. Asking for some kind of apology or accountability is the least that can be done.

    Brushing this off surprised we (Black people) are offended is shallow bullshit.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago

    Does he say it to white people?

    He says fuck the queen to the queen, he says he has a bomb in crowds, he confesses to random crimes to cops. If he thought cracker was extremely inappropriate he would likely yell that at white people.
    You say you understand, but that question reveals that you do not.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    You're asking a man who involuntarily says the most taboo thing in any given situation to annihilate his self worth on the daily by constantly having to apologise for his existence.

    No one should be asked to do that. I'm sorry that his existence makes you uneasy.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago*

    Thank you for demonstrating my point. Genuinely perfect rendition of the "You're racist for assuming I don't understand Tourette's" followed by ignorance of Tourette's. Chef's kiss. This is why I have no grace.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    No one here that I've seen would even remotely disagree that Black people don't have a right to be offended over racial slurs or demand accountability from the organizers of this event, who definitely could have handled this better so that it does not take away from this celebration of Black artistry. I fully agree that the people affected have the right to speak up about it.

    However, as someone with Tourette's (not this variety or severity, thankfully), you really don't seem to understand the condition, or are at least letting your (fully justified) anger towards the situation get in the way of discussing your points. This is the reason you are receiving pushback, not because of a dismissal of the issues and hostility that PoC face.

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  • [+] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    It's an awful situation. Unequivocally fuck the BBC and BAFTA, who showed they could exercise editorial censorship when they omitted Free Palestine. And while a warning was given to attendants, it should've been more explicit. And having a racial slur yelled at you at a celebration of your craft is a nightmarish situation that can't have its emotional sting removed by an intellectual understanding of the situation.

    But the amount of ableism I've seen is pretty maddening. People will say they understand tourettes with one breath and then ask why he wasn't calling white presenters crackers.

    I have sympathy for everything listed above, and fuck the right wingers going "oh but you say it in your rap music" but this is just as much a conversation about disability as it is about race. The man has been hospitalized multiple times because of scenarios like this.

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