This young woman is brilliant.

If John had shouted it as I'm on a stage and wasn't told beforehand that he was there, I'd be embarrassed, go back stage, ask what happened, be told why, what and when then gone and found him, give him a hug, laughed and said "fuck all to worry about, how are you pal?". If I'd have been on the stage and known he was there and he shouted it out, I'd have said " we've got the amazing John Davidson in the house, I've seen both documentaries as a young man, will watch what I hear is and incredible film and look forward to a beer with him during the after party. Disability and Tourettes isn't a crime, go to Tourettes Action UK to teach yourself about John's world".

Just listen.

@SholaMos1 talk less and listen more. Not me. Fuck me. I am a conditional white (white when there are POC around, and non white when there are not POC around). Listen to black folks who have fucking Tourret's.

Jesus fucking Christ, calling John Davidson's tic proof of a "racist mind, heart and soul" is absolute bullshit, and dangerous bullshit at that. Tourette's with coprolalia (10-15% of cases) is neurological fuckery. Disinhibited brain circuits grab the most primed, taboo-loaded phrase from context and blast it out. No filter, no choice. Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo in the spotlight? Black men trigger racial-taboo content already lurking in his tic repertoire. Faulty basal ganglia plus dopamine chaos equals involuntary n-word shout. Zero intent, zero "soul" reveal. Just broken wiring doing broken-wiring shite by throwing words he knows but doesn't want to use. I've witnessed it firsthand supporting a bloke with severe TS: my Greek features, name, accent became "Greek cunt," body hair "hairy bastard." Automatic, context-primed bollocks from disinhibited loops. He was trying to fight it and the suppression made worse. Zero malice. He was a good guy who had 0 anti-Greek biases. That's exactly why plenty of Black folk with Tourette's come to John's defense. They live this nightmare daily, know these tics aren't hidden bigotry erupting, and call out the same mechanics. It's the disability, full stop. Nobody's saying Black people should shrug off hearing the n-word. Pain lingers regardless. But slapping "subconscious racism" on every involuntary tic is ableist shite dressed up as anti-racism. It erases TS reality and stigmatises people already battling enough. The BBC should've edited it out. However, turning a neurological event into deliberate racism or double-standard excuses is nonsense. Ableism, no matter how much you try to cover it in nice terms, still ableism.

Dr Shola, I admire and respect you, but you are wrong here. Please listen to this young woman explain how:

How about you educate yourself first?

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It is amazing what a bit of edit can do. Here's my edit from exactly the same conference.

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