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Originally Posted by Parmy

no individual is “at fault” — the only real lapse may lie with the BBC and BAFTA for allowing circumstances where this could happen.


And how would they do that? Tell black people they can't attend because there's a guy with a mental disability attending or tell mentally disabled people they can't attend because there's black people attending..


Or just not air it, keep it hidden fron the public..cause the event would still have happened in the auditorium, only difference would be Foxx and his ill informed mouth would be oblivious to the event.

A detail that keeps getting overlooked is Davidson saying there was an open mic near him for the entire show. If that’s true, then the BBC had several ways to manage the situation that didn’t involve removing people from the broadcast. They could have muted that mic, repositioned it, or adjusted the audio setup so that involuntary vocalisations weren’t picked up in the first place.

Given that, it’s hard to see omission as the only available response. The technical side of the production clearly wasn’t handled as well as it should have been, and that failure sits with the BBC and BAFTA, not with the individuals on stage.