Blindboy cancels himself.

Ah, so he didn't say it and you expressed it as your reason for disliking him. So, exactly what I said?

So just confirm for me, did he say he didn't know it was wrong or not?

Jayses the hate on here is baffling, but having been off twitter for a while, you'd forget what maniacs there are on the internet.

I was never a fan of his music or his writing and proably come from the opposite end of the political spectrum as him, but generally find his podcasts insightful and interesting. Of course there is the occasional eye-roll, but he's a lot more self-aware than people make out.

I was in my 20s before i googled the term and found out what exactly it meant. I said above that I was watching the news and saw a politician use the term "spacticity" in reference to his own son's condition. It never occurred to me that spastic was a medial term or a technical term. I thought it was a term for someone being stupid (or having an intellectual disability) synonymous with an idiot (i've just googled the etymology of the term idiot for the first time in my life).

Does this whole dislike of BB in this instance hinge on his not knowing what exactly the term spastic meant? Because that's not beyond the realms of possibility that he didn't know the exact meaning of spastic at the age of 22. I hadn't googled it and i had probably assumed it was synonymous with idiot at that age (but i doubt I'd ever though hard about it).

Had you thought hard about the exact meaning of the term by that point in your life?

I don't pretend to know whether BB had Googled the term spastic before he was 20 or if he just went with the colloquial usage of the term. I think I'm at a disadvantage to the people who are happy to pretend they know what BB knows. They pretend they can mind-read not only what someone else knew but WHEN they knew it... I can't compete with that unless I'm willing to also stray into making things up to prove a point, which I'm not.

I doubt that. I'm not from Limerick, but spastic was definitely used when someone said something stupid or wrong or didn't know things. I knew it was an insult but it was more likely to be a term for an intellectual disability. It was interchangeable with retard. It's not a term that's taught in school or anything so I actually thing that assuming that EVERYONE , or even most people, had looked it up in the dictionary or Gooled it, it not realistic.

Didn't intend to defend him in this particular instance [I think anyone of a reasonably balanced nature can see through it]

Just don't get why some of the people on here feel the need to be so overly harsh about his character in general.

So, am I sneering at people becoming irate over a man with a plastic bag on his head. I suppose I am yes.

What does it have to do with this instance That's? That's the whole point, isn't it? He said he didn't know the actual meaning of the term because it was used as an insult out of its proper context. So he knew it was an insult (he said it was used against him in the statement) but didn't know it related to a specific disability. And lots of people have come on to say everyone knew exactly what it meant. So I'm telling you that I didn't know exactly what it meant until I googled it and that was in the second half of my 20s. If I hadn't been prompted to Google it then, I might not have known what exactly it meant until now. So the idea that everyone knows exactly what the word meant by the time they're in their 20s, is not realistic. I suppose it's like the term "wolly". It's used as a mild insult but I'm not aware of if having any medical meaning or referring to any particular disability.

Isn't it strange for so many people to get hung up on what BB knew and at what age they knew it?

Ive only read the statement linked in the first post in this thread. I haven't read anything more about it so that's all I know.