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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

???

Tourette = the disability
calling black people slurs = the racism

not hard to understand, being black doesn't stop you from being ableist so why should being disabled cancel out being racist.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Him saying the slur is not evidence of his racism. The disability does not force him to vocalize things he subconsciously thinks, it forces him to vocalize things he finds abhorrent and wrong. This is also why he's not calling white people "slurs" as some people have mentioned, because he presumably doesn't think those are taboo because anti-white racism isn't real (correct).

Now, the harm that is done to the black people who were on the receiving end is of course still real. But if this discussion starts with "why should being disabled cancel out being racist" it's fundamentally missing the point of one half of the equation (ableism and disability) and it's not going to accomplish anything.

I also find it extremely troubling that the broadcaster who got to farm controversy by inflicting these slurs on millions of black people while scapegoating disabled people and censoring "free Palestine" is now completely getting away with that while the discourse turns into a war between disabled people and black people, which are of course not at all mutually exclusive categories.

[–] Sulvy@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (51 children)

Knowing a word is racist, harmful, and inappropriate does not make you a racist. The very same reasons we find it offensive are the reasons he shouted it.

Say someone’s colostomy bag broke in public. It smells like shit, nobody likes the smell of shit, the person with the colostomy bag probably doesn’t like the smell of shit either. Would you find it appropriate to say “this person loves the smell of shit, they intended to make us all smell their shit?”

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that's not how tourettes works

[–] Redbolshevik2@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (33 children)

Having the "Say the worst thing possible" disorder is actually not racist.

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[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He has a form of Tourette’s that literally forces you to say the worst possible thing in that moment. He has called the Queen the C-word to her face and said that he has a bomb in a public crowd.

Obviously the two people he said the word to (and every black people who saw the event because the BBC care too much about views to censor the incident apparently) have the right to be upset that he called them the word, I’m not disputing that at all. But this form of Tourette’s is essentially like the intrusive thoughts some people with OCD get which is in no way representative of them as a person.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

(and every black people who saw the event because the BBC care too much about views to censor the incident apparently)

I am convinced they did this intentionally to stir up controversy and distract from the censoring of pro-Palestine activism at the expense of both black and disabled people.

[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And you probably wouldn’t be wrong.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

As always, sink the island. ukkk qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but their inversion is representative of them as a person: intrusive thoughts are a reinforcement mechanism; your brain telling you what's inappropriate. This form of Tourette’s makes you act on your (verbal) intrusive thoughts.

This means the slurs indicate that he's not a racist. A racist with this form of Tourette’s would not consider slurs the epitome of inappropriate behavior.