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Should he be required to do this every time he has a tic?

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So apparently people feel very strongly about this. I have a cousin with this condition. It is not conscious and not directed when a tic like this happens. It's literally a disability. From an early age he's learned to be generally apologetic when an offensive tic comes out. All the fucking time. Once people know he has the condition it's generally understood they are to be ignored at that point and ignoring them actually helps them diminish in frequency. Anxiety around tics really pushes them out more. People were warned ahead of time that neuro-divergent people were in the crowd who may have uncontrollable tics.

It isn't directed. It doesn't work that way. So the article even saying it was shouted "at" these men is incorrect fundamentally. It was shouted. That's it. The guy left after the incident which is what happens often. Neuro-divergent people like this are consistently not welcomed into neuro-normative spaces and neuro-normatives have many demands that must be met before they can be tolerated in only the most performative ways.

That is how it is because it's condition that interrupts all neuro-normative spaces. Pretty much always. It's more or less unavoidable. To demand so much extra effort be placed on the neuro-divergent because their uncontrollable condition interrupted neuro-normativeness is so ridiculous to me that it edges firmly into ableism. I'm sad to see this kind of ableism accepted in this community.

I think Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo are graceful men and handled it fine. I think the host handled it fine. I think the apology from Davidson was fine. I think the main villain here is the broadcaster for not just censoring the word (they clearly are reveling in the controversy, fuck them) and BAFTA themselves for not stepping up to make sure Mr Jordan and Mr Lindo were fully up to speed and not actually being prepared for the inevitable.

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.

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.

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.

me, listening to michael b jordan's speech interrupted by involuntary racial epithets on repeat, conspicuously shaking my head to let ya'll know i disagree.

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

I don't subscribe to standpoint epistemology because I'm an adult.

I have some really bad OCD ruminations

Same! I got diagnosed with OCD right after my mom passed. I still have intrusive racist thoughts, but I'm on meds for that and it soothes it quite a bit. Residual brainworms from when I was a chud.