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TAKE ME TO YOUR AUNTIE’S HOUSE I WANT TO SEE YOUR UNCLE (he/him)

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's becoming increasingly clear every single day that the way to stop the rise of the right in this country is to join the Green Party.

It's also the way to invest in our communities, lower our bills and protect our planet.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Now that British ‘mainstream’ journalists have discovered where Akrotiri is, they should watch our film about the over 600 spy flights flown from there by the RAF in aid of Israeli intelligence — which they dutifully avoided covering. 👇

[Tourettes Action @tourettesaction]

Over recent weeks, our community has faced an unprecedented wave of online trolling, misinformation, and targeted mockery. Following the extremely difficult events surrounding the BAFTAs, many people with Tourette’s have been struggling.

Read more here: https://t.co/NqLtlBvfLu

[Variety @Variety]

#SNL's BAFTAs Tourette's sketch is under fire as the charity group Tourette’s Action slams the "horrific" trolling.

“Mocking a disability is never acceptable. It would not be tolerated for any other condition, and it should not be tolerated by people with Tourette’s. Tourette’s is a complex neurological condition, of which there is no cure. It is not a joke. It is not a personality trait. It is not a source of entertainment. It is a condition that can be extremely debilitating, causing pain isolation and huge amounts of discrimination.”

https://t.co/GFnCpWg4Hq

[amtrak apologist @amtrakapologist]

explaining wartime preparations to an american: imagine a strategic burger reserve

[big john the boshfather @Johnfis08605918]

Part of my interview with John Davidson. It’s on our you tube channel bosh tv , this was back in October shows done of the struggles he has lived with most of his life.

[Jonny Bell @Jonnywsbell]

Last night at the BAFTAs, John Davidson's involuntary vocal outbursts were heard live...
These are NOT his choices, they're uncontrollable symptoms of Tourette Syndrome, a neurological disorder he's lived with, and fought stigma against his whole life...

[Ace Humphreys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦢 @Ace109610]

Hope one day people see John Davidson and understand his Tourettes he has to overcome in life and got an MBE helping younger kids with this disability and educating people

[Albie @albieamankona]

I’m dealing with a family emergency, so I won’t be doing broadcast interviews on the John Davidson Tourette’s tic at the BAFTAs story.

Hearing the N word shouted at two of the most successful black actors in the world, on stage at the BAFTAs and broadcast on the BBC, was horrible. It made people uncomfortable. It should have. But it was an involuntary tic from someone who lives with Tourette’s syndrome. It was not chosen. It was not intentional. It was not an expression of belief.

What’s astonishing is watching people who constantly lecture the public about inclusion suddenly abandon it the moment it becomes complicated. The same voices that demand respect for lived experience are now acting as if a neurodivergent man consciously decided to shout a slur for sport.

Tourette’s is a neurological condition. It is not a political statement. It is not a moral failing. You cannot preach DEI and then punish someone for symptoms of their neurodivergence.

Even the Royal Household has previously understood Davidson’s condition. Not even the late Queen was immune to his tics he said “F*ck the Queen” TO HER FACE. If that reality can be accepted there, it should not be beyond the rest of us.

Two things can be true at once. The word is abhorrent. The tic was involuntary. If your commitment to inclusion collapses when it involves neurodivergence, then it was never inclusion in the first place.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

John Davidson did an interview with Big John about his tic throwing out the N word and how people interpret it as him being a racist.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

One of the actors from I Swear, a film about the life of Tourette’s sufferer John Davidson, has come out in support of him following the BAFTAs controversy. The film is based on Davidson’s life, and he also appears in it.

At the ceremony, Davidson was heard shouting several profanities, including a derogatory term aimed at Black people, as a result of his condition.

His co-star stressed that Tourette’s is a neurological disorder people have no control over and that John had every right to attend the BAFTAs.

[Poppy Crave @poppycravee]

Biggest point of ‘I Swear’ inspired by John Davidson, that goes viral was this scene, for a reason. It's trying to normalize tourettes and explain to people that they can't control it. Forcing a person who has tourettes to apologize for every single thing is hell, shame on you.

[Shambo of Luxembourg @BradfemlyWalsh]

What Americans don't realise is that Brits only know a lot more about Tourettes than Americans precisely because of John Davidson's extraordinary courage in educating the UK about his issues since he was a child. He's done more for understanding of the condition than anyone alive

[ℍ𝔼ℝ𝔼𝕋𝕆𝕊𝔼𝔼𝕌ℕ𝕀𝕋𝔼𝔻 @HereToSeeUnited]

No, but when he first met a woman with cancer, the first thing he said was "YOUR GONNA DIE!" He shouted "FUCK THE QUEEN" when he was literally receiving his MBE. He also found his friend dead & when the police came, he shouted "I KILLED HIM". It is INVOLUNTARY. EDUCATE YOURSELF.

[Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath]

[the British far right imagining what it is to be 'properly British']

"OK, well... we're Christians, yeah? And every day at school... we get up, and salute the flag. That's right: the old stars and stripes. And then, every Thanksgiving, or fourth of July..."

[Lloyd Russell-Moyle 🏳️‍🌈🏕️ @lloyd_rm]

Labour splitting the vote and letting Reform in.

Up and down the county the only way to stop reform is to vote Green.

[Sam (he/him) @mushycrouton]

So you’re telling me the woman who called Lolita a “love story” stayed silent on the Epstein situation right up until her name came up in the files?

[Mike @ProgPro]

The plan? Rob a bank then speak Spanish around ICE, getting a free flight out of the country.