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This woman - who was in the audience at the BAFTAs on Sunday evening - takes a fair and compassionate stance on the guest with Tourette's shouting a racial slur at two black actors.
She provides important context: the audience had been briefed about John Davidson’s Tourette’s and his vocal tics had already been evident earlier in the evening.
She also articulates something we don’t hear often enough.
Words can cause discomfort. They can hurt. And they can do so for many reasons. But that alone does not make someone ���wrong” or prove ill intent. Nor does it justify destroying someone’s reputation.
Sometimes we have to hold two truths at once - that harm can be felt and that intent and context still matter.
And sometimes we have to set aside our own feelings and consider the needs and vulnerabilities of others.
A principle worth remembering in many areas of public life.
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.
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Manchester City are saddened to learn that John Stapleton has passed away at the age of 79.
John was a passionate City supporter and a regular at the Etihad Stadium. He will be missed.
Our thoughts are with John’s family and friends at this difficult time.
RIP John 🩵
It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to a true British sporting icon in the world of boxing and fellow Manchester City supporter, Ricky Hatton.
Rest in peace, to the Hitman. 🕯️