Bafta-Richter und Filmemacher legt seine Rolle wegen der Behandlung rassistischer Beleidigungen bei der Zeremonie nieder
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/baftas-jonte-richardson-quits-racial-slur-b2926367.html
Von tylerthe-theatre
28 Kommentare
Mountain and molehill come to mind.
Editing team didn’t hear it in the van they were using. That’s it. It’s a nothing story being made out like it was a choice to keep it in whilst cutting a guy talking about free Palestine, which they didn’t, they cut to time and kept it on topic as they do with everything.
Also why did they edit out the Gaza reference at the end of the speech?
That’s not the only thing which went wrong during the show
The guy who did this was celebrated for his bravery with his tourettes story. His illness is shown and people lose their minds. No wonder stuff like this is such a stigma. Now we got to deal with people making a complete meal out of a nothing thing. Ooohh he said a word that’s repeated a million times a day on Spotify and other platforms, so what. It wasn’t said in the context of racially abusing someone but everyone seems to be doing their best to spin it that way.
Im almost happy this whole thing has happened as someone who has tourettes seeing all this online just proves that there needs to be more education about it and that anyone making a big deal out of it obviously hasn’t watched the dudes film.
This feels like a huge non story once any real context is applied. Instead it’s just turned into a competition over who gets to be the bigger victim.
This whole entire things been a riot to witness. 😂
Both sides are legitimate in their view and feeling of things but rules dictate there must be someone to blame.
This is ridiculous and shouldn’t be censored at all. Anyone with a working brain understands that the tics are involuntary and not reflective of the persons beliefs. They can be influenced by their environment but are not deliberate.
The virtue signalling crowd who want to erase any trace of the one person with the disability while providing an award for a film that supposedly advocates for more awareness around said disability, are a disgrace.
If you are offended by the word, tough shit. Your discomfort does not outweigh someone’s right to be there regardless of their disability.
This is the reality of disabilities. It’s not pretty, it’s not Hollywood glamour and it’s certainly not convenient. If they erase this guys outburst, they may as well take away all the wheelchair ramps simply because they’re not nice to look at.
The issue isn’t with the tourettes/ Mr Davidson for me. The BBC left it in, no one spoke to Michael or Delroy, and the apologies from everyone are lacking.
The noise is predominantly coming from the United States, which as a country seems to be composed of just pure ignorance, vitriol and toxicity for the past decade. It appears everyone there seem’s to be permanently annoyed, outraged and willing to spew venom whenever they get the chance.
I know it’s unfair to paint the whole populace with that brush but their society does seem to have a much higher rate of crazies, psychos and hate filled people than anywhere I’ve visited in Europe.
Good thing we’re importing their culture by the bucket load.
I do wonder what would have happened if he had blurted out „Free Palestine“ as a tic.
To the people saying that this is a ‘nothing-burger’. Before weighing in with your view, have you put yourselves in the shoes of the presenters who had to stand there and take it in the moment? The point is Davidson is not the only person in the room deserving of empathy, or even more deserving because of his disability.
I honestly feel like no apology would ever be enough. The impact on fellow Tourette’s sufferers must be huge.
I don’t remember this level of outrage when Kanye turned into a Neo Nazi.
A guy says the N word, involuntarily because of a mental health condition, and everybody is raging.
Quentin Tarantino purposefully and repeatedly says it on-screen purely for entertainment or ’shock‘ value and was nominated for five Baftas, winning two.
Why the hypocrisy?
Pathetic as fuck.
Feel sorry for this poor guy with Tourettes man..
Some very basic level of communication could have prevented any of this stuff
Maybe it’s a good time for the black community to reflect on the power they give a word.
I’ve seen some refer to hearing it as…”traumatising” regardless of context.
It’s unacceptable for adults to go around with a button on them that anybody can push in order to trigger an emotional or traumatic reaction.
If they heard it, it should have been edited out. Knowing how things work behind the scenes I can completely believe they didn’t hear it.
It’s too much of a hassle to hear this word and say “you know what, we’ll ignore it” – TV world is very on top of this sort of shit when they know it’s happening.
People on this thread being deliberately obtuse. The issue was that the BBC broadcast the slurs knowing full well they’d cause controversy, when they should have bleeped them out. This would not have been difficult as they’d censored other people during the night.
Sorry but the commenters here acting holier-than-thou are not it.
If a situation is complex and there is no easy solution a lot of hand wringing takes place whereby one protected characteristic has to be balanced against another. Whatever is concluded a lot of people will be unhappy. But wait, what’s this, the BBC were involved? That’s it then, blame them, they always get it wrong, and we can move on.
Its funny that I see certain comments and opinions about this after BBC Radio 4 recently did a fantastic piece about tourettes that I listened to the other day and I thought that even though people may be uninformed about the condition, there’s no way they would blame the person for what their tics are.
Turns out, people always suprise you.
Its such a nonstory really.
The only reason this is such a big deal is because of the type of people who attend and watch Award shows.
Equal rights until someone with a disability shows what their disability is really like, and then that’s gone, huh?
People with tourettes who are watching this debacle unfold are likely going to feel more self conscious than ever.
I’m actually really uncomfortable with how much people on this sub are actively trying to downplay the impact slurs like that can have on people. At least there’s a balanced understanding on other subs where both sides are being acknowledged and given importance to. On here you have people saying it’s not a big deal to have slurs thrown at them while they’re on stage because it’s unintentional and without malice. The actors are millionaires and they should just suck it up and they were told before the show that there may be offensive words blurted out. But I think the last thing someone would expect are racial slurs. Honestly no one has the right to tell people how they feel about the slurs. The blame is obviously on the BAFTAs and BBC. It’s been reported by variety that the warners bros got into contact to tell them to bleep it out only just for bbc to not do that. And the BAFTAS not even speaking to the hosts after the incident? Just crazy seeing the horrible opinions here. But what else would you expect on the UK sub….
I didn’t actually hear what was shouted on the broadcast but did wonder what was said as you could see they were thrown off what they were saying.. if there was a 2 hr gap as has been mentioned anyone would maybe wonder why they were distracted.. however this really is a nonsense situation.. a guy with Tourette’s involuntarily shouts something which is beyond his control and the world loses its mind
If he’s one of the good ones and he quits then that’s a bad thing.
If he really feels that way about NAFTA, then he should have made his statement and remained in his position so he could effect change.
What is it with the fucking yanks and their ignorance around things like Tourettes?
I understand why the actors would be taken back in the moment but, society knows black folks say the n word to each other as an ode to the power of blackness. Ownership over oppression. Some forget why. Some hate it. Yet when it comes down to someone saying it without malice and as a verbal tick – toleration went down 1000%.
Dear god. Get over it. The chap had Tourette’s. It’s been used in rap songs for decades