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[awty]

British film awards interrupted by racist slur from man with Tourette Syndrome

It was the clip heard around the world after Sunday night’s BAFTA ceremony in London — a man yelling a racist slur as two celebrated Black actors, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, presented an award on stage.

The man was John Davidson, the subject of the British indie film “I Swear,” about a man with Tourette Syndrome. Davidson, who has long campaigned for awareness of the condition, told CNN before the ceremony that he was worried about the involuntary tics that mark it.

The audience had been warned before the ceremony that tics or involuntary swearing could occur, and Davidson received large applause inside the hall. After the incident, host Alan Cumming asked for “understanding” for the “strong and offensive language.” He reminded the crowd that Tourette Syndrome was a disability and tics were involuntary, and said: “We apologize if you are offended tonight.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/22/enter...acist-slur


This is not ok. My take is that this guy gets a free pass on these events, along with the biopic about him, because the queen approved him by "half-knighting" him, and thus Brits accept his behavior. But they should stop taking the woman who protected her son the pedophile ever so seriously.

You obviously don't know anything about Tourette's.

[Fake Messiah]

But that's why organizers knew enough about Tourette syndrome that it was all but certain that this guy would yell a racist word at a Black person, and yet they invited him. Black people have traumas when they hear that word, and they don't deserve to be treated like this.

[Deesse23]

You prefer black people with traumas to someone with a neurodevelopmental disorder. Lets be crystal clear about this:The person with the neurodevelopmental disorder has no control over his utterances, it cant be healed nor its root cause be treated, unlike traumas of other people. 

On what grounds do you like to discriminate against people with such mental disorders?  If it wouldnt have been a vocal tic, but a motion tic, would you have asked the same, to have the person not be invited? If not, why do you like to discriminate even within the group of people with neurodevelopmental disorders?

On a sidenote: How do you think people with neurodevelopmental disorders deserve to be treated, other than being discriminated against?

[awty]

But that's why organizers knew enough about Tourette syndrome that it was all but certain that this guy would yell a racist word at a Black person, and yet they invited him. Black people have traumas when they hear that word, and they don't deserve to be treated like this.

NVM, I got nuthin'.

Deese handled it.