@BBCNews You don’t get to exploit this man’s disabilities to weaponize it against the Black community and then cite the outcomes of your creation.
All for attention? Views? Clicks?
F@čk the BBC.
Are we really saying that if a white man with Tourette’s had an involuntary tic and shouted the N word at the NAACP Image Awards on BET, he should have been beaten up?
Thrown out? Verbally attacked? Punished for a disability he cannot control? Should white Tourette’s sufferers be segregated from society in case they offend black people?
Because that is the implication of saying ‘read the room, it won’t go the way you think’.
The decision by BBC and BAFTA not to censor John Davidson’s Tourette’s tic, in which he involuntarily said the n word toward Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, was a mistake.
It was horrible to hear that word broadcast on the BBC. For the two black men it was directed at, it must have been awful. It is probably the most offensive word a white person can say to a black person even as an involuntary tic.
But mocking someone’s disability with intent is worse. Deon Cole doing so at the NAACP Image Awards was not involuntary. It was intentional. Disgusting.
@briebriejoy Everyone has been mostly sympathetic toward the Black community, but people with Tourettes are being turned into a public mockery for their condition, which has been dismissed and minimized to a punchline.
@ninaturner@thedaniel511 So did Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Cory Booker. Do I believe they would have followed through on that support? Absolutely not.
So why do you believe that a corporate PAC Dem, who doesn’t support a stock trading ban for Congressional members, will do it?
@ninaturner You're rightfully challenging Talarico, but you've been soft on Crockett, a known corporate Democrat who's accepted PAC money, stood with Israel and accepted AIPAC-sponsored trips.
Why so much heat for him, but none the person who with a record of backing elite interests?
@adamjohnsonCHI@CarlBeijer Adam Johnson blocked me for this tweet pointing out Clinton’s desire to control media info. She’s openly speaking out again about the need for control it as billionaires are consolidating control of media on behalf of foreign interest.
https://t.co/rNv4DhjZXR
@adamjohnsonNYC @CarlBeijer It’s neoliberalism’s attempt to control media narrative. As SOS, Clinton spoke openly about losing the war of information and needing to regain control of what’s published:
https://t.co/xQECO2XGNA
@EoinHiggins_@TaylorLorenz No, but they’ve all miraculously responded to similar claims Taylor didn’t make and used the same baseless claim to redirect instead of confronting the claims directly.
@d3ucemaximus@NathanJRobinson@thepondering_ Like giving Israel $billions to bombs kids when we can’t feed and house people here? Yeah, I think working people care about that.
@NathanJRobinson@briebriejoy This is exactly what Clinton suggested when he convinced the Democratic Party to take more money from special interest donors to remain competitive with Republicans after Reagan.
@AOC If you recognize a government is committing a genocide, there’s no excuse for continuing arming them in ANY capacity. You can vote for MTG’s bill and push for another bill that goes beyond “defensive” weapons.
@mourner@LeafletJS First screen is an example of my own use of it. I was just asking a question. I’m not sure why there’s hostility? I think there’s something on the boundary layers. I might have a fix for it.