Reaction to John Davidson (Tourettes sufferer)

If I had tourettes, I'd have t-shirts and hoodies printed that say "Sorry if I offended you, I have Tourettes", which I would wear.

Also if I had Tourettes, I probably would not go to an event where one of my uncontrollable outbursts would be televised and reported on in the worlds press. Well, I wouldn't, though if I was a Tourettes Activist, that might be exactly what I want.

Question: Did Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan know ahead of time the context of the situation? Or did they just see a crowd of people with one person shouting the N word?

Blaming Davidson and disparaging him for this is the equivalent of criticising a person with a cold for sneezing.

I, for one am not blaming him, but a bit of foresight would have prevented much of this - unless thats exactly what he wanted, in which case my sympathy fades away.

I know a guy who has tourettes and is in. You would be surprised how many young people are intolerant of it. In fact they are down right nasty to him. Another guy with autism in university was unaware videoed and called a " non playable character" , ie a person that didnt matter. The video got over 60k views. I thought it was taught at CPSE class. University students are particularily horrible shi.tes

He is kind of like Davidson as in laugh it off and get on with it. You gotta admire his resilience.

Honestly amounts to BBC **** up with microphone placement. I feel sympathy for the actors but equally has to be an awareness of the context. If the outburst isn't from malice then it's very different imho.

There was a rumour that went around school before that some did something embarrassing , then if two people said it it was gospel, now it is videoed, because everyone thinks they are Christopher Nolan. It is put up on the internet so now it is carved in stone.

When I was about 14, I had a pimple behind my ear that didnt clear up like most pimples do, so I had a brief outpatient procedure to lance it and clean it up. A guy in my dorm went around telling people (mostly girls) that I was in hospital having mould removed from behind my ear. I generally don't have regrets, but if I did, I regret not putting him in hospital for what he'd been saying. Safe to say, no girl looked at me for a few years after that.

They're missing a proper education more than any context,most people would see the headline and get to the part where it mentions Tourettes and think "unfortunate thingto happen",others, are eternally outraged and usually thick as pig ****!!

I suppose I am in the former category of people, I saw the headline and the brief summary, and thought, and still do, think if you wanted to avoid the controversy, preparations could have been made.

How can you know what you'd do if you had Tourette's and were invited to an awards ceremony with a film about yourself among the nominees? I think it would be appalling to feel obliged to stay at home.

I never said stay at home. I just meant preparations could have been made to limit any controversy.

That said, I suspect the controversy was welcomed and was part of the plan all along.

That's a great explanation. Never thought of it like that.

Black America doesn’t do comedy or irony very well when it comes to ongoing issues around racism.

Tourette’s does exist in America - however its prevalence on national TV and in the national psyche is likely to be less than that in the UK- over the last 20 years or more, we’ve seen a number of prominent documentaries on UK tv stations which get a significant % of the UK population watching- so education on the condition is far greater this side of the pond I would guess.Ive certainly known about the condition for about 25 years or so.

My own view is that there is a lot more intentional racism out there for these millionaire actors to get upset over- whatever way they reacted at the time is fine in that they may not have understood what was happening - but weeks on, they’ve had plenty of time to educate themselves- they need to take a leaf out of their own book- isn’t education and an informed mind the argument for a more understanding and tolerant world?