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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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[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Find the racists easy edition.

  1. They were able to censor Free Palestine on live TV but not a fucking slur

  2. He did it to a total of 3 different group of people.

  3. Yes he has a tick he should still apologize. Speaking as a autistic person with my own issues its not a excuse.

  4. There was just so many different ways this could of been handled and prepared for, but since its Black people all the white people are crawling over themselves to yell about how its not a big deal or its ableist for Black people to be offended for being god damn jumped like this. Those poor people went into full fight or flight mode. Why are we supposed to be understanding of a slur but not the Black people getting disrespected by EVERYBODY here? Cause let's be honest the way this is being handled and talked about says a lot.

  5. I'm so tired of people using disability as a shield for critcism of racism. It makes life difficult for people with said disability btw and its not helping anyone to pretend things can't be done about it. Stop using us as a proxy to be racist and hurt Black people. Sick of this shit.

If you truly dont see the problem I demand you go follow bunch of Black people somewhere online and just listen. Don't interact, just sit there and listen.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Incidentally it also revealed this site isn't remotely safe for POC like at all, apparently there are hexbears who believe disability induced racism is a thing and it's acceptable and questioning it make you ableist

[–] Redbolshevik2@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

John Davidson is not a racist for having a neurological condition that forces him to vocalize things.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If he's not screaming racial slurs at white people too, then yes in fact he is

Tho I'm graceful enough to allow that his racism is subconscious social conditioning compounded by his condition

Regardless, Black people or any POC are not obligated to stand there and take racial abuse on the chin, no matter how unintentional it is

The existence of a medical condition does give you a permission structure to harm other people

If he can't help but harm Black people when in their presence, then he should never have been in their presence in the first place, get a fuckin grip you blind ass cracker

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