And I think we can be sure part of his tour will be meeting with black Americans including those with Tourette’s.

As I lamented weeks ago it would have been nice if they could all shake hands. But if they aren’t interested then that’s no dice. John meanwhile will have plenty of time to follow up with more details when I Swear is released in US.

That’s one of the points that really doesn’t get through to some people. Jordan and Lindo have shown every indication that they get it and don’t want to relitigate what happened. They were welcomed at the NAACP awards as classy heroes. So that’s that.

Neither Jordan or Lindo or Hannah Bealcher (who was obviously angry, but nevertheless concludes its "an impossible situation") have demanded an apology. They all want to move on from this. Davidson cannot win with people who ultimately want him punished.

You might have seen the post by Darren McGarvey. It's well-written. But it still demands that Davidson thrown himself down at the court of public opinion and somehow a good result will come of that. You have Jaime Foxx and Wendell Pierce calling him a malingerer. What good does that do?

True.

Normally making light of a tic attack and emphasizing it means nothing would be the best approach. But here you had it in mass media on two continents.

I think his original instinct was to try and make light of it, and focus on the pride and positives of being included. That highly underestimated how badly it was blowing up on social media and the clip was played over and over.

With the benefit of hindsight it probably would have been a good idea to say in his original statement that he intended to reach out to them and say he’s sorry, not for Tourette’s but that he felt and recognized their experience. But he did say so within the first 48 hours in that Variety article.

They prove the point why public apology for Tourette’s is a trap and does not help. They’ll still be angry anyway and whatever he says will be wrong.

“I understand he can’t control it, but he still has to do exactly what he’d be expected to do if he did it on purpose” is an absurdity. But more importantly, Jordan and Lindo have given every indication that they understand this is a dead horse. Shit happens. You move on.

“Why doesn’t this disabled person do what I think he should do, or what I would do damn it. And RIGHT NOW.” Yeah, that’s called ableism.

NONE of them, including Hannah Bealcher, has cast blame on Davidson. So why are people on social media doing it.

This person doesn’t seem to recognize that there absolutely was a scenario in which Jordan/Lindo had and gave informed consent that they could hear tics and they could take no offense. That that wasn’t done is something the Bafta should accept responsibility for. As Lindo has said.

For the record, I think it’s the decent thing to do to apologize privately to Jordan and Lindo. For all we know he has. But by all indications they don’t want to talk about it further and want to move on. That’s their right. It’s also his. He doesn’t owe American strangers on social media anything.

How do you know he didn’t apologize. How is it any of your business. Saying he verbally assaulted them neutralizes any understanding of his condition. Just say you want him locked up and say what you really mean.

The Bafta should apologize to them if they weren’t given a trigger warning, and the BBC for not editing it out of the broadcast. Either there was informed consent from the audience that a man with Tourette’s was present who might tic or there wasn’t. That’s not his problem.

You’re demanding a public apology. If he apologized to Jordan and Lindo privately then it’s up to them to make it public. Or not. He has no burden to make you happy. That is discrimination against his condition.

It’s a simple question: if he makes a public apology, what if it isn’t accepted by “the public” and what if it happens again. Either one accepts that his tics are meaningless and therefore not harmful, or you don’t.

The problem with this guy’s “logic” is that neither Jordan or Lindo demanded an apology from Davidson. It’s reasonable to assume they understood what happened. Davidson is under no obligation to make everyone happy about what was clearly a regrettable incident that was wrongfully broadcast.

The thing is that they never address what good is supposed to be done. He could give an apology at a press conference and the tic the N word. Then what?

He didn’t need to “finally” apologize for the same reason you didn’t need to give a shit while you were recovering.

That Jordan and Lindo would have been offended in the moment is also not in dispute. And that is the one thing Davidson could apologize for. But Davidson could give the most eloquent Harvard written speech on racial sensitivity-and then tic the N word. See the problem?

That the N word is historically harmful is not in dispute. But does anyone want to argue with a straight face that there is *no* circumstance at anytime ever that it could be heard by an adult with no offense taken.

There is no understanding of anyone with coprolalia if the position is that they can be tolerated so long as they are never heard. And if one says certain words and phrases are verboten and unacceptable under any circumstance that negates any possible inclusion.

Davidson’s position has never been that people just have to take his condition. Rather he’s asked for understanding that the words are not intended or in any way an expression of himself and therefore no offense is taken.

There is a scenario in which Jordan and Delroy consented to the trigger warning, and took no offense to the tic, it was never broadcast, and no harm was done.

Davidson could (has?) apologized privately. But he does not owe the public an apology. And there’s a simple reason for that: what if the apology isn’t accepted. What then can he do but concede that his condition is so socially unacceptable that he has to be ostracized.

The other thing I wish people could take a step back and understand is that this was the only perfect storm scenario in which such an impossible situation is born. In which an African American film was being heavily honored at the Baftas while a film about a man with Tourette’s also was.

See, I think that’s another concept people have a hard time wrapping their mind around: the only good scenario was one in which Jordan and Lindo fully understood and were aware that there was a man with severe Tourette’s present and they took no offense to his tics. That’s exactly what the ask is.