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Tourette Syndrome at the Bafta Awards

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I just read this:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/23/backlash-bafta-n-word-controversy-jamie-foxx-wendell-pierce-tourette-activist-john-davidson?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

I can't decide what I think about the responses.

If a person usually uses the 'N' word as a tic, then maybe them not being in the audience would have been best at it's a very unpleasant and offensive word.

But must they have been there with regard to the awards anyway, so there wasn't really a choice to make for the organisers?  Should they be excluded?

There is obviously no intention for offence and the tic is unable to be controlled.

What do you think?

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  • Oh wow, yeah this is a difficult one.

    If he has a history of using that word, I totally get excluding him from the live audience. But at the same time, would that be discrimination?

    I imagine if he is known for that tic they (and he) wanted him to be in the audience just so that Tourettes could be a major talking point like this. That feels wrong to me. And yet I can’t shake this feeling like making him not be in the audience would be discriminatory. Agh, this is tricky.

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  • Oh wow, yeah this is a difficult one.

    If he has a history of using that word, I totally get excluding him from the live audience. But at the same time, would that be discrimination?

    I imagine if he is known for that tic they (and he) wanted him to be in the audience just so that Tourettes could be a major talking point like this. That feels wrong to me. And yet I can’t shake this feeling like making him not be in the audience would be discriminatory. Agh, this is tricky.

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