Said a BBC spokesperson, quoted in "BBC faces backlash after racial slur shouted during BAFTA awards by attendee with Tourette syndrome/The host, Alan Cumming, acknowledged the 'strong and offensive language' several times during the Sunday show and thanked the audience for their understanding" (NBC News).
Here's the occurrence of the hurling of the notorious epithet (and I will delete any comments that write it out):
Tourettes activist John Davidson shouts n*gger and b*tch at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the Bafta Awards in London. pic.twitter.com/mrS95IrW41— Anthony Brian Logan (ABL) 🇺🇸 (@ANTHONYBLOGAN) February 23, 2026
Here's Alan Cumming, attempting to smooth things over: TikTok video.
He says, “If you have seen the film ‘I Swear,’ you will know that film is about the experience of a person with Tourette syndrome." So this incident works as publicity for a movie, and I don't know that this wasn't done intentionally. If it was, I would like to know who was in on it. I can't imagine anyone choosing to exploit Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo.
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So Gavin Newsom suffers from
Tourette’s syndrome & Dyslexia?
No, Newsom suffers from Rich Boy Entitlement syndrome.
"NBC News was unable to independently confirm whether Davidson was the individual who made the audible comments. A BBC spokesperson identified the source of the outbursts only as an attendee with Tourette syndrome in a statement to NBC News"
Oh, so someone at NBC saw a clip from the show and got an email from his buddy at the BBC. Crackerjack reporting NBC. Its why you're so trusted by the USA public!
How does this score in the Oppression Olympics?
the racial slur that dare not speak its name. The n-word or questioning the holocaust can land you in prison in the UK. The holiest of holy's.
Why Christians don't demand Blasphamey against Jesus Christ and things they hold sacred be also added to "hate speech" is beyond me. I think its because almost all of them don't really believe their own religion.
So now they are apologizing for people with Tourette's!?
I eagerly await the response of the Tourette's community to this slur against Tourette's sufferers. Haven't they suffered enough without the BAFTA organizers telling the world that they should be ashamed of their affliction?
“Why Christians don't demand Blasphamey against Jesus Christ and things they hold sacred be also added to "hate speech" is beyond me. I think it’s because almost all of them don't really believe their own religion.”
You really don’t get it… do you, head chopper.
The lesson to be learned is Do Not Watch Award Shows…
Of course it was the guy with Tourette syndrome. Nobody in the far-left film crowd would utter the "N word" anymore than their predecessors in the 30s and 40s would've criticized Comrade Stalin in public.
The obsession with the Nword is truly weird. Never having used it, I'm glad its verboten. But it is weird, since I remember a book in the library in the 90s called "N word" by a black comedian. Dick Gregory?
The N-word? Nerd! Abort, sequester, and progress no further.
Its a good thing the guy with Tourette's syndrome didn't have a string noose in his hands, the US FBI would've flown into London with 20 FBI agents. Foreign country be damned.
I wondered why it's always dirty words with Tourette's sufferers. Why not grunts, or moans, or nonsense syllables, or just ordinary words? So I looked it up. Apparently the truth is that only 5-10% of those afflicted with Tourette's shout out obscene expressions. That doesn't entirely clear up the mystery though.
Dirty words are sociopolitical constructs.
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If you make a word an insult, don't be surprised when people use the word as an insult - even those with Tourette's syndrome.
Also, not the G-word. Not that word. No, not that, too.
What is BAFTA?
He felt like saying n-word that day
He felt like saying n-word that night
And I'll bet when he's by himself
Driving in his car
He says the n-word with a hard R
All I did was tell my wife “This halibut is good enough for Jeho*a” (but if I spell the whole word out, my comment will be deleted.)
Must be terrible to live with an uncontrollable tic that can get you killed. Funny the libs won't tolerate this (Jamie Foxx said "he meant it") but they will tolerate homelessness/addiction and crazy conspiracy theories involving Jewish people.
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I wonder whether Joseph Conrad's N---- of the Narcissus is still found in libraries.
Use of "n-word" is twice as offensive os the actual word. Everyone knows the meaning so why not just say it? Why add hypocrisy to the slur?
Is use of the word by blacks punishable? Is use in popular music banned/censored? Is it unforgivable Only when used by people who are not black? Only white people are accountable, perhaps?
Would anyone object if De Niro or Sharpton referred to the above as just the opinion of a mother-fucking redneck...?
"and I will delete any comments that write it out"
You delicate flower. There's actually two epithets in the quote, but presumably you'll only censor one. It's your house but I'm inclined to tell you to grow up.
N-arcissism?
The linguistic source of Tourettes words is the same as the source of "oh shit" at appropriate times in ordinary life. The impulse that kicks that off is not under control in sufferers.
I just need to say they need a new acronym for this story or they need to spell it out in this instance.
BBC is unfortunate in this circumstance.
Chest Rockwell said...
"and I will delete any comments that write it out"
You delicate flower. There's actually two epithets in the quote, but presumably you'll only censor one. It's your house but I'm inclined to tell you to grow up.
I think it has more to do with secondary repercussions to the blog than with Ann’s sensibilities.
She can clarify if she wants.
Big Mike said...
"What is BAFTA?"
Blacks Always Find Tourette's Annoying.
Better not watch Driving Miss Daisy.
There are now 8 dirty words. Although I strongly object to the inclusion of "tits."
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Oh, if the left was so forgiving of Trump! "It was not intentional. It was involuntary."
But, they were literally that forgiving of sleepy Joe.
And, would seem using that word generally expresses anger or frustration at a particular behavior or incident than hatred towards a race.
I would like to make a plea for the re-acceptance of "colored people."
Its benign, friendly in fact, and not meant as a slur and is so, so much better than the absurd "people of color."
In addition it refers specifically to Black people. Persons of color is an attempt to steal the mantle of oppression from the colored people whose ancestors earned it.
It's a UK thing. BAFTA - Bitching About France: The Awards
Well, but. Wait a minute. The reason we refrain from using that word -- the word, you know the one! -- is not that it is a bad word. It is because hearing that word is deeply -- deeply, I say! -- distressing to certain, ah, persons. And that's just because those persons -- POCs, we might call them -- are physically constructed in such a fashion that their sensitive ears just can't handle that particular set of vocables, in that particular order (Unless, of course, they are themselves repeating it over and over and over in one of their mindless, sing-song "musical" compositions).
So, that being the case, why is it OK if someone with Tourette's does it? Deep distress is deep distress, however blameless the person responsible may be. And, also, why didn't those two POCs crumple to the ground in agony? What gives here, Perfesser? Have I been misled about how this all works?
“Persons of the tightly woven hair…”
—— Reverend Dr. Billy Sol Hargis
"That doesn't entirely clear up the mystery though."
And it gets even murkier when you consider that every language has taboo words, but they aren't the same words. Which means that the Tourette's sufferer is not experiencing an involuntary spasm. akin to a sneeze. He has to learn which words to shout uncontrollably, in order to be properly disturbing to the people around him.
@Rabel: "Colored" is a legal category in South Africa for those of mixed ancestry. The native Africans (as tribal) see them as distinct.
@Jupiter: English has a unique history with N-word, as in Latin countries it'd just be a variation on "black." It means black. See Modelo N-word beer in any Tex-Mex restaurant. We don't have a similar stigma associated with "guinea" -- even though it has about the same history and a quite widespread placename for tropical former colonies.
When I was quite young, probably 8 or so, I found my sister's copy of "From The Back Of The Bus", by Dick Gregory. It was not a narrative, it was just short quotations from his stage act. Most of it was incomprehensible to me, but I remember one line; "Wouldn't it be funny if this was just burnt cork, and all of you were being tolerant for nothing?"
I didn't make much of it at the time, but it occurs to me, that this implied that his audience was largely or even entirely white liberals. And I suppose they must have gotten quite the chuckle from that line. Just imagine, if they had paid $5 for tickets to display their virtue to a white man!
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"See Modelo N-word beer in any Tex-Mex restaurant." Well, no, I don't think "Negro" is the N-word Althouse is hyperventilating about, and anyway, it is "Negra Modelo". I have long wondered why. In Spanish, of course, adjectives almost always come after the noun, and must agree with its gender. And Modelo is a masculine, noun, so it should be "Modelo Negro". I hypothesize that it is Negra because it is una cerveza, and therefore feminine. But that's a bit of a stretch. It's great beer, by the way. Although not as good as Bohemia Oscura.
I wrote "variation" on black...a variation...
The broadcast apparently aired 2 hours after the event, and now the BBC is being condemned by the pearl-clutching Karens for not having edited out the offensive ejaculations. Now, these same busybodies would be aghast if anybody said anything critical about the ejaculations in real time why, that would be bigotry against a disability ! But there are strict limits to these sensibilities - and the Karens are standing by to define them for you, as well as facilitate their enforcement.
Enigma said, "I wrote 'variation' on black...a variation..."
En-word's variation on the n-word.
Maybe we can nudge people into just saying 'notorious epithet.'
E.g., 'What up, mah notorious epithet!?' CC, JSM
'That Shaft is one baaad notorious epithet....' CC, JSM
'Yawl just fucked with the wrong notorious epithet....' CC, JSM
right up there with 'expletive deleted'
Get these snakes off this 'notorisous epithet' plane,
From the NBC write-up --
"In an interview with Vanity Fair after the Warner Bros. BAFTA afterparty, Lindo said he and Jordan 'did what we had to do' while presenting. He told the publication he wished 'someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterwards.' "
Lindo wanted to speak to the manager...
The N word with an audience of white progs. Did they all faint at once?
My notorious epithet JSM is crackin' me up! Slip me some skin homie!
LOL.
It’s the hallmark of a quality community when you have to threaten members so they won’t use a racial slur.
Oh, the magic word! How frightening. Where's that woman standing outside the subway car as the door is closing?
you have to roll with the punches,
too many jive turkeys in the audience,
@Jupiter,
Well, no, I don't think "Negro" is the N-word Althouse is hyperventilating about, and anyway, it is "Negra Modelo". I have long wondered why. In Spanish, of course, adjectives almost always come after the noun, and must agree with its gender. And Modelo is a masculine, noun, so it should be "Modelo Negro". I hypothesize that it is Negra because it is una cerveza, and therefore feminine.
Romance languages do this weird thing with assumed nouns that have their adjective or definite article stand in for them. In "Negra Modelo" it's really "Negra Cerveza Modelo", translated into English it's the Dark Beer Modelo. An example from French I found from one of my early music CDs was "Messe pour la Saint Michel". Now, "la" is the feminine definite article and there's nothing femmy about St. Michael the Archangel. I mean, he's about as butch and rugged as saints get! The expanded version is "Messe pour la [fete de] St. Michel", in English Mass for the feast of Saint Michael.
And, yes, these were explained to me by native speakers of Spanish & French, not just my febrile imagination.
So, a bunch of black people [the BAFTA audience], in particular, a subset of black males used the n-word in public. So what? In my experience, black males, especially young black males use the n-word among themselves all the damn time. It's like nick names among boys and men. All groups of males have nick names for each other, and even if they are signs of affection, they are never, and I mean never, complimentary!
People who annoy you: naggers!!
Should have claimed to be a rapper.
Voldemort! So there!
should have brought in clayton bigsby
"Nagga, pleeeease!"
My dad had Tourette's Syndrome and I never heard him curse until I was in my 20s and he used the F-word once. He often said, "Profanity is a sign of ignorance." He did have bad tics and he chewed on a toothpick all the time to relieve that involuntary action.
I love it when the oppressed have to be ranked.
I ain’t sayin she wanna be kept
But she ain’t goin wit no broke notorious epithet!
CC, JSM
There’s an Irish actress named Ruth Negga. Not a stunt; her father was Ethiopian, and the name is etymologically related to Nagus, the Ethiopian word for emperor.
I would love to see someone at the Baftas reading off the list of nominees, get to “Ruth…yeah, no, not getting me on this one, mate,” then drop the envelope and walk off. CC, JSM
I used to participate in the American Library Association's (largely farcical) Banned Books Week activities. We would have readings from "banned" books in the library rotunda.
Onen year I chose an excerpt from Final Exit, another year I did some Slaughterhouse Five, and once a chapter from Huckleberry Finn--replete with the notorious epithet.
Many in the audience were black library staff, who didn't bat an eye.
One year.
What do gently nurtured sufferers of Tourettes say when they curse? I'm remembering a 6 year old nephew at the soccer field getting mad and screaming "Baby" at another boy.
YoungHegelian is correct. One calls it "negra" as a contraction of "cerveza negra". You would ask the camarero for "una negra".
"In "Negra Modelo" it's really "Negra Cerveza Modelo", translated into English it's the Dark Beer Modelo."
Well, that's progress, of a sort, but
a) if the noun is cerveza, then it should be "Cerveza Negra Modela". Or, maybe, Cerveza Modela Negra. I am not real clear on the "modelo" part, it could easily mean model, as in type or variety. But remember, there is a beer that's just "Modelo" (not quite Bud Light, but pretty tame). Anyway, if modelo is supposed to be modifying cerveza, it should be feminine.
Of course, as I understand it, all the breweries in Mexico were founded by Czechs and Germans. So maybe they weren't real clear on how Spanish works.
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Dont overthink it. Leave it to guys like Unamuno to write long essays on it. Its one reason to learn languages by the gestalt method.
Whoop! Oh boy. Bitch!
I find this largely unbloggable.
@Jupiter,
"Modelo" is the brand name. It's like saying Guiness Stout.
Reminds me of a guy in high school in the 60's. Once we found out he had tourettes (not that he could control it), we'd whisper curse words when he was having an active period. After a while, he'd incorporate the cuss words and shout them out. That was our freshman year, and I am relieved to say we all tired of that crap quickly (shame finally visited us). He was a good guy and decent athlete - he could control the tics and involuntary noises when pitching, too.
It's a great word! Every white person should use it with vitriolic intent directly to a black person at least once in a lifetime. It just feels so damn good. And, pace Dick Gregory's Autobiography, you would be helping the unfortunates achieve real equality. As a white man, there is no single word that has such power over me. Real freedom would be a day devoted to maximum use of the word by white people. But so many of you live in the prisons of your mind.
No one is going to mention the South Park episode???
Davidson has an incurable, uncontrollable neurological disorder that could get him killed, but multimillionaire entertainer delroy lindo wanted someone from BAFTA to assuage his own anguish, with diddy-partier jamie fox piling on
blacks demand endless indulgence for their insolence, aggression, and violent crimes, but have no sympathy for anyone else. I completely understand, as being black is a genetic neurological disorder itself, the typical victim having a brain that in any other race would be considered retarded
Imagine Michelle Obama at a comedy club Open Mic Night doing a riff on "Raymond J. Johnson, Jr."...
"You can call me black... you can call me a minority...you can call me a slave's daughter...you can call me an African American...you can call me a Person of Color...you can call me of victim...you call me 'soufull' but you doesn't dare call me niggardly or refer to me as an enigma..."
""Modelo" is the brand name. It's like saying Guiness Stout."
Yeah, I've been thinking about the fact, that in English, we put the brand first, and then any adjectives. Like, Heineken Dark. Which is actually "Heineken Dark Lager". So, "Heineken" and "dark" both modify lager. But lager is sometimes just implied.
That seemed polite. Why criticize the men in the arena? I had a tourettes employee. He had sufferred. We kept a card on the cashout counter, explaining it. Never had a problem. The involuntary movements were worse for him. He dropped pizzas. Luckily it was a money laundering pizzaria. Imagine the possibilities.
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