[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Exactly. They could have edited it out and they could have explained the situation to the 2 black actors on stage straight afterwards instead they've left it in and left the actors confused and stoked the race war online. Keep us all fighting with each other

People can gaslight all they want ,but if this horrible slur was aimed at them ..they would have also been offended. That's the hypocrisy in all this. Alan Cummings would not have been too pleased if he got for e.g the F word slur shouted at him in an aggressive outburst.


We know that tourettes is a condition that can't be controlled ,but it doesn't stop people still being upset by what they hear. So whilst we can understand it's a disability that he can't help , it doesn't excuse it and how it was handled.

It reminds me of that Family guy episode,where Peter was barging through women's toilets and scaring them / harassing them ,and saying he's the " r word " ,as if that makes it ok .... like some excuse. We can still acknowledge something is wrong , we wouldn't tell kids it's ok .

I've seen documentaries about tourettes,there was a bunch of young people all with tourettes ,and even they got offended by eachother's outbursts. A guy kept saying sexual inappropriate things about a girl ,and she understandably got upset and wanted to distance herself. Bear in mind they both had tourettes as well.

Or a guy calling his own mother a "Wh0re" in another documentary, you can't tell me these things don't still have some effect? . She of course laughed it off . But it probably hurt her ,even though she said she knows he doesn't mean it .