Brett Cooper

We are being inclusive, we wanna let you know you might hear outbursts and that is who's doing it and it's okay.

Now even though there was that disclaimer, people are acting like this outburst was a hate crime.

They are claiming that this man with Tourette's is actually a racist and that Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan are the real victims in this story.

I mean spare me the outrage.

I am over it.

Like this man, John Davidson, he has spent his entire life advocating

and educating people on Tourette's only to have the world turn around and attack him for a tic that he cannot control.

It is disgusting and it is disgraceful.

Now, diving into this story and the internet reaction, first of all, a lot of people online are blaming the BAFTAs for this because the BAFTAs were not streamed live, so they are saying, you guys and the BBC who streamed it, you should have cut that moment out.

but apparently the producers never heard it, I don't know how, but they didn't notice it, so they didn't cut it out.

Somebody commented and said, a prerecorded slur is not an accident.

BAFTA had time, time to review, time to edit, time to decide what the world would and would not see.

And that is why this moment landed the way it did for so many black folks.

Yes, Tourette syndrome is real, it deserves understanding, but acknowledging that does not erase the historical weight of the N-word that ultimately went out to millions of people in a prerecorded broadcast.

Now, this is fair, I guess, but like, I'm reading this tweet and I'm like, why do we have to act like a man with a disability, having a tic, yelling out a word accidentally, is this triggering to people at home?

Like, are you all genuinely that soft?

The answer is yes, yes they are.

I mean, literally, watch this.

The events this weekend exposed a couple things.

I'm so tired of this like therapy, politically correct speak.