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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/john-davidson-tourettes-tics-bafta-n-word-interview-1236671850/

John responds. I hesitate to post it as it may just direct more hate his way but I believe he has a right to have a voice and an opinion about his own experience.[/quote]

My dude takes yet another opportunity to plug his project, to blame microphone placement, and then to plug his project some more.

Meanwhile, in the ENTIRE interview, here is the sum total of what he has to say about his use of a vicious racial slur: "The N-word was one of these, and I completely understand its significance in history and in the modern world..."

Note what is missing from this. We get hundreds of words about how hard his life is and how we should watch his film, and not one single word about the impact of his words on those who were targeted. [/quote]

Have the people offended suggested that they understand that this was involuntary and not meant? I haven't seen that either. They seem to just want to reflexively call him a racist and a jerk then demand he apologize.[/quote]

Even if it was not meant, he has the opportunity here to show grace and engage in education by making it clear that he understands how his unvoluntary utterance impacted actual human beings.

[b]No one is saying he did it on purpose. [/b]We are saying his constant self-centering rather than demonstrations of empathy are off-putting. [/quote]

Yes people on here have actually said exactly that. [/quote]

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