Jim Spence slams disgraceful John Davidson treatment - "The anger felt by so many Scots at the unjust treatment suffered by Tourette’s sufferer John Davidson at and after the Baftas has united the nation. There’s a wholly justified rage at the duplicity of the film industry and many of the luvvies in it, which has been perfectly encapsulated in their disgraceful treatment of John, from the Borders town of Galashiels. Tourette’s causes involuntary motor and vocal tics over which the sufferer has no control, and coprolalia – uncontrollable use of obscene language – affects some sufferers, including John, who has spoken about it publicly. Invited to the Baftas in midweek to celebrate the film I Swear, which portrays his everyday life struggles with the affliction, John shouted out the N-word when black actors Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage... the furore over the matter has exposed the vicious underbelly of many in an industry which chants the mantra of diversity and kindness. It seems that there are limits to those characteristics, and a hierarchy in which some folk are less equal than others. John Davidson’s neurological disability comes down the pecking order it seems. Only an industry located so firmly up its own backside could gather to honour a film illustrating the grim realities facing someone living with Tourette’s and then be so publicly aggrieved when the actuality of that illness – and the involuntary nature of its effects on those suffering from it – reveals itself in their midst. The debilitating effects of the illness were vividly illustrated by the fact that John felt sufficiently embarrassed that he excused himself from the main body of the hall to another part of the arena, after his uncontrollable outburst. Not only did John’s grim condition enrage the carefully crafted and tender sensibilities of some of those present, but we’ve also witnessed savage and unedifying attacks on a man who is imprisoned daily by a disease which has no cure and over which he has no control. The confected compassion in the world of those who espouse empathy and kindness has been brutally revealed for the sanctimonious guff that it is. It seems that for some superficial individuals who piously pontificate about equality, John’s neurological disability makes him less equal than some others. The BBC has been fingered as culpable in not editing the segment from their coverage. However, they may have inadvertently done us a favour in revealing the hypocrisy of an industry where some folk have more faces than the ancient Roman god Janus."
Once again, the "kindness" and "empathy" crowd are incredibly cruel and vicious. Wokeness is just the best way to bully other people right now
CMV: The John Davidson Incident Demonstrates a Substantial Hypocrisy Among Black Activists : r/changemyview - " The background: John Davidson is a disability activist with Tourettes. The most basic level of research into his medical condition will inform a person that John has zero control over his symptoms. Furthermore and unfortunately, his main symptom is a tic which quite literally and physically forces him to say the most inappropriate thing possible in a given moment. At the BAFTAs, this unfortunately led to him shouting out the N-word while two black individuals were on stage.
The reaction: While many are very understanding of John's condition, I have observed on social media, and particularly within spaces dedicated to advancing the interests of black people, a substantial amount of ignorant reactions. These reactions range from comments suggesting he wouldn't have said the slur if it wasn't part of his regular vocabulary (assumes control and malice: ableist), to suggesting he shouldn't have attended the event if he was aware of his tic (ableist), to suggesting he should have apologized afterward (he has, but also: ableist to insist upon; he has no control over it)... Why is this hypocritical instead of just wrong? Frankly, you don't have to look far to find a plethora of articles and posts by advocates of black issues about how it is not black people's responsibility to educate white people about racism, but white people's responsibility to be educated about it. A common theme in this type of statement is that it should not require education by black people, but empathy on the part of white people to become educated on black issues. Black people are the victim of racism and therefore should not be forced to bear the burden of educating others on their plight. And I strongly sympathize with this point of view, except that... If we are to apply this consistently, then the onus of responsibility is not on disabled people, but on the able-bodied, to have empathy for and become educated on the plight of the disabled. Able-bodied black people should not be excluded from this, and should be expected to have a level of understanding for neurological disorders strictly by virtue of empathy, unless we are to believe that black people are the only ones deserving of empathy.
What would change my mind?
A - Show me that (and how) the "he's racist/shouldn't have been there" reaction is only a fringe position among black people / black advocacy groups.
B - Show me that black advocacy groups by and large see it as the responsibility of black people and activists to educate and inform others as to their struggles. This would at least reduce the level of inconsistency here in my mind.
C - There is some key and material fact that I have missed, which changes how the consistency or merit of reactions to this incident should be interpreted.
Edit 2: Holy shit. I will not be responding further to comments making the case that he shouldn't have been there due to his disability. Assume he was fully within his rights to be there with your response, as any decent person should."
IG: olesoul57.2 ♉️ 5/12 on X - "Deon Cole: "If there are any white men in the room with Tourette's, I advise you to tell them to read the room, lord. It might not go the way they thinketh.""
Hadley Freeman on X - "On the one hand, two wealthy, successful men living their lifelong dreams get called a horrible name at the Baftas On the other, a man with a lifelong, life-crippling neurological condition now held up for global mockery. Hard not to see this as the endpoint of identity politics"
Meme - Anzu @quirked_up_anzu: "if I had tourettes my tics would be shouting "trans rights', "vote', and black lives matter" because I'm a good fucking person"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Coprolalia is an involuntary symptom that doesn't reflect a person's beliefs. Paradoxically, the more inappropriate they consider a word to be, the more likely the brain is to trigger it as a tic. The OP's post propagates harmful, ableist misconceptions."
la scapigliata on X - "The "woke" mob have been abusing and discriminating against the disabled for years. An autistic teenager was dragged out of her house and victimised by the UK police for saying a male-impersonating police officer looked likle her "lesbian nana". Another autistic man was prosecuted for asking another male-impersonator policemen if she was a "girl or a boy"? Offensive epilepsy-inducing zebra crossings, in the colours of the "progress" flag, spooking police horses, making blind and disabled people fall over when crossing the road - NOTHING DONE. This narcissistic ideological rot goes very deep in all our institutions, UK and US."
Meme - raine @_rainedrop: "As a person with Tourette's, no I will not wear a fucking muzzle out in public. We are not fucking animals. Go to hell."
Colin Swallows @heswallowswhat: "If it's a risk that you will offend a minority then you should be a decent enough human being to voluntarily put a muzzle on. This is no excuse for racism."
Liza Rosen on X - "In Pakistan, girls are considered a family burden, so Muslim fathers often discard newborn babies by throwing them into garbage piles. Headlines periodically emerge about this horrific practice after local residents hear cries and pull out the babies. Indeed, Pakistani Muslim fathers don’t even bother killing the infants before throwing them away. Almost all the dead babies suffered until their last breath, either from suffocation, being crushed under garbage, or dying of thirst. In Islam, women and girls are treated worse than animals. Not all cultures are equal!"
Allie Beth Stuckey on X - "Everyone should read the book, “When Children Became People” by historian OM Bakke. In it, he explains how the ancient pagan world justified the slaughter and mistreatment of children. Scholars believed at the time that a person’s worth was determined primarily by their possession of the “logos” or their ability to reason. Only the adult free male were thought to have the fullness of rational capacity, so women, slaves, and children were seen as inherently less-than. Children got the worst of it, as they were considered in the same category as animals and barbarians. Thus, children were, without qualm, aborted, murdered, trafficked and objectified. Unwanted newborns were left to die on what were called “exposure hills.” Babies would be left there —alive and screaming— to be exposed to the elements until they died. But about 2,000 years ago, the perspective on children started to change. Eventually, the practice of infanticide was stigmatized, then criminalized, then replaced— with orphanages, hospitals, and other means by which desperate parents could ensure their babies were cared for. Children became people. Slowly but surely, they went from a class of sub-humans to be discarded and oppressed to a special category of vulnerability deserving of love. Those of us in the West consider this sentiment the norm. Even with our raging debates on abortion and other child-centered issues, the Western instinct is still to show compassion for the child above and beyond the compassion we show for adults. But it was not always so, and it is not so in most of the world today. The game changer for children— and the impoverished, the sick, the elderly, slaves, and women— two millennia ago was Christianity. Christians changed how the world saw children. This strange and persistent group worshiped a man named Jesus, whom they claimed to be God. Yet unlike the pagan gods of the day, their God came to earth in weakness and meekness. In fact, He arrived first as an embryo. He was heralded by the kicks of a newborn John the Baptist. He was worshiped by angels and wise men as an infant. And, against the protestations of His disciples, insisted: “Let the children come to me, for such as these belong the Kingdom of Heaven.” This Jesus had another name— one with which the pagan scholars at the time would have been familiar: Logos. The Word. Pagan scholars said “logos” determines a person’s worth. But the Logos said, “Your worth is defined by me.” Christians popularized the concept of the Imago Dei — that all people are equally valuable just because they are people. And they preached this radically equalizing gospel that said that all people are dead in sin apart from Christ but all can be made alive in Him. Christians, through this message, because of Jesus, completely changed how the world saw people. You cannot have all the things we cherish in the West: compassion, dignity, human rights, and forgo the foundation upon which these things are built. Look to the non-Western world today and see the unbroken chain of oppressing women and children. Perhaps so-called “Christian nationalism” isn’t the bogeyman you should be most afraid of. Something to consider."
Wall Street Apes on X - "Steven Crowder in Dearborn, Michigan “What do you think would happen if we went into a Muslim bakery and asked for a gay wedding cake? No need to wonder. We did it for you.” Where are the outcries and lawsuits?"
NOVA Campaigns on X - "Every Muslim bakery in Michigan rejected making a homosexual wedding cake"
Nemets on X - "USSR in the Brezhnev era prosecuted its domestic enemies under Article 70 (Agitation) & Article 190-1 (Disinformation). 3,234 people were arrested under those articles from 1962-1985. The UK prosecuted 2,341 cases of internet speech in 2022 alone, with 1,816 convictions."
arctotherium on X - "Annualized, UK speech prosecutions are running at about 17x those of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev. Of course, the USSR had 4x the population, so more like 68x the prosecutions/person*year."
Meme - "Modern UK Speech Prosecutions Greatly Exceed the USSR Under Brezhnev. Annualized arrests under Soviet anti-speech articles vs. British internet speech prosecutions.
UK: 2,341 in one year (1,816 convicted). Offence Code 19607 2022 (single year)
USSR: ~141 per year (3,234 over 23 yrs). Articles 70 & 190-1 1962-1985 (annualized)"
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 on X - "This is so incredibly dystopian. A UK govt PSA making kids terrified about sharing A LINK being a thing that will have all their devices raided and end their lives. I know their speech laws aren't as protective but my lord."
Sellafield worker jailed after sharing 'offensive' Facebook posts - "Prosecutor George Shelley said Dunn had posted three separate images. The first one showed a group of men, Asian in appearance, at Egremont crab fair 2025, with the caption: “Coming to a town near you.” The second also showed a group of men, Asian in appearance leaving a boat on to Whitehaven beach. This, said Mr Shelley, had the caption: “When it’s on your turf, then what?” A final image showed a group of men, again Asian in appearance, wielding knives in front of the Palace of Westminster. There was also a crying white child in a Union flag T-shirt. This was also captioned, said Mr Shelley, with the wording: “Coming to a town near you.”"
A left winger claimed, in response to a chart showing that the UK was prosecuting more people for speech than Brezhnev's USSR, that "They call you in for a talk, that in 99% of cases results in nothing. In the most extreme cases it's a fine, because of "public outrage". Nobody has been imprisoned for opinions, people have only been taken to jail because they made threats of violence (also illegal in the US, under call to action). Whoever posted this thinks you are a stupid idiot. There is no reason to be a stupid idiot. Europe is a superb island of civilization in a sea of evil. Why would you side with evil, if you are not a stupid idiot?"
Foreign Office fails to put Britain first. That’s why I’ve quit - "The dysfunction runs deep. In recent discussions about how the Foreign Office could improve productivity with AI, some senior colleagues were more concerned with the need for an environmental impact assessment than for any proposed gains. Colleagues in the Department for International Development (now merged with the Foreign Office) justified to me their refusal to limit working from home to two days a week on the grounds that they didn’t want to work in a “colonial” office building. This is not culture war mudslinging. It illustrates a civil service culture hopelessly distracted by the peripheral, to the neglect of its core mission... Government lawyers often see only risks, not solutions: when successive foreign secretaries asked me to help get our embassies and consulates serving more British produce to boost exports, I was told it would breach procurement law to favour British suppliers over foreign ones. The solutions are not complicated: more senior officials from the private sector and greater ministerial control over mandarins, including the ability to hire and fire. Results prioritised over paper-pushing. Above all, a more ruthless focus on what benefits the British people: our impotence on Iran and craven surrender over Chagos happen when the long-term national interest is sacrificed to unquestioning worship of international law, the demands of noisy activist groups, or the appeasing of sectarian voting blocs. Without reform of the civil service, these episodes will not be the last such ignominies.
Ameer Kotecha was British consul general in Ekaterinburg, 2023-25
The Foreign Office is an international embarrassment - "one watches the Permanent Secretary, one Olly Robbins of Brexit fame, boast to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee about his “500 Fairness Champions” and the crackdown on “micro-behaviours”. Some of his predecessors, too, seemed to see their job as making more women and more visibly diverse staff into ambassadors, not about standing up for British interests."
Arizona Military Museum CLOSES after Vietnam vet founder, 80, told tour: 'Eventually they will replace me with some gay, black, woman woke Jew' and claimed mannequin with hand on its hip represented gay soldiers - "A Vietnam War veteran has been ousted from the military museum he curated for decades after suggesting he would be replaced by 'some gay, black, woman, woke Jew.' Joe Abodeely, 80, spent half his life overseeing the Arizona Military Museum which was a personal passion for the Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War - his own uniform was even on display. But for more than four months, the museum has been closed to the public, and the nonprofit overseeing it no longer has state support... Abodeely's remarks during the tour are at odds with posts on the museum's Facebook page where he condemned racists and spoke out about division in the country. 'It is not about economics, or politics, or ideology, or the haves vs. the have nots - it is clearly about RACE,' he wrote of the motivations behind the January 6 siege of the Capitol. 'Those people are simply ignorant, despicable racists; and their actions have brought the race issue to the forefront. It took a racist President and supporters to do it.' In an interview, he claimed he was being pushed out due to a personal vendetta held by Muehlenbeck, a claim that her spokesperson denied."
Fascism With a Smile - "In April of 2021 when Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion facilitator Kike Ojo-Thompson of the KOJO Institute was ripping into Richard Bilkszto in front of his colleagues and calling him a racist and a white supremacist for simply challenging her assertion that Canada was “a bastion of white supremacy and colonialism,” she was positively ecstatic. In referring to the incident the following week, she said with a chuckle, “I’m so lucky that we got perfect evidence, a wonderful example of resistance that you all got to bear witness to… because, I mean, it doesn’t get better than this.” She undoubtedly used this story in later meetings to drive home her point about how “systemically racist” our school systems are. A little over two years later, after Bilkszto's reputation and career were destroyed, and after his untimely suicide last month, I doubt Kike is still laughing. This is hardly the only example of this kind of bullying, though it’s the most extreme one I’m aware of. Diversity. Inclusion. Equity. Who could possibly be against such wonderful human endeavors? Aren't these the very principles our nation was founded on?... Canada is a welcoming nation and inclusion is what we do here. In spite of this, the meteoric rise of the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) industry and its consultants have succeeded in convincing people (for the low, low price of tens of thousands of dollars per session) that Canadian employers and their employees are wholly intolerant of any sort of diversity, completely against equality, and totally opposed to inclusivity. It's almost as if they think we're all fascists. Actually, I think they do... changing the definition of words is precisely what the current Woke movement has been doing for decades. This makes it ridiculously difficult to have an intelligent conversation with them because none of the words mean what you think they mean. So let's examine the word, “fascism” a little bit. In researching fascism, I discovered that there are many definitions of the word, but not many consistent ones. Some of these definitions actually mention that there is no universal definition... none of the generally accepted descriptions of fascism are specifically left or right politically - except of course when someone names it as a “far-right ideology”. That's a lazy description because it doesn't actually mean anything."
CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) on X - "🧵When they say Vance or republicans are “Weird” what they’re attacking is that they‘re White males. “Weird” or Wyrd is an ancient Anglo-Germanic word of multiple meaning, tied up with the runic alphabet, prophesy, fate, deep North European identity, and Odin. in effect the word means both Ancient white culture, traditional White masculity, and white identity. This is how Queer bipoc neurodivergent transexual, muslims can call them “Weird” and feel not a ounce of cognitive disonance that they, not Vance or Republicans are the ones straying from the norm…. Because in fact they are attacking them for being normal, they are attacking them for being heterosexual white males (the ideal default the rest of you losers are broken imitations of). And the choice of the word ”weird” that they wield so unintelligibly, and which almost no White person has even had much of a negative association with (Aren’t the best people rather weird? whether Napoleon or Bowie?), makes sense when you realize that it’s a scare word specifically for the non-white coalition that subconciously evokes Shakespeares weird sisters or the weird and the white wolf… or any number of a thousand folkloric and fantasy references than none of these people would get, but which they’ve subconsciously learned equates to white people being extra white and unashamed of it… This is how the most homosexual, limpwristed, unrespectable men you’ve ever seen can call a republican “weird”, and not feel an ounce of dissonance that they’re the ones who are queer as folk… because they’re actively trying to taboo white heterosexuality itself, such that in spaces they control only literal buttpirates and practical buttpirates like Walz will be allowed to exist… of course the solution is to call them faggots."
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 on X - "White hierarchical individualistic men (WHIMs) really are weird Making up around 1/6th of the population, this cluster has markedly different views about risk, guns, environment, and more This sociological research from Yale professor Dan Kahan is fascinating"
Rabbi Poupko on X - "A young idealistic @davidhogg111 dreamed of going into politics to cure the scourge of gun violence. Having grown up a bit, demonizing Israel has become a top priority. A young idealistic @GretaThunberg dreamed of becoming famous to raise awareness to climate change. Having grown up a bit, demonizing Israel has become her top priority. A young idealistic @krystalball dreamed of going into politics to give all Americans access to healthcare. Having grown up a bit, demonizing Israel has become her top priority. A young idealistic @AOC dreamed of going into politics to give people healthcare and reduce income inequality. Having grown up a bit, demonizing Israel has become her top priority. A young idealistic @camkasky dreamed of going into politics to cure the scourge of gun violence. Having grown up a bit, demonizing Israel has become a top priority for him. Does anyone have a psychological name or explanation to this phenomenon?"
Zaid Jilani on X - "A lot of people might wonder what China is going to do. I think their strategy is to do nothing. America wastes trillions on the Middle East the past 25 years while China slowly exceeds us in every area. Do nothing, win."
bumbadum on X - "Every neoliberal is like this. They will glaze China and Singapore for being clean, orderly, and advanced. Then in the next breath they will oppose literally any of that being instituted here in the US. Zaid was chimping out about Trump deploying the NG to DC. Meanwhile in the far east they will throw you in jail forever for graffiti."
Curtis Houck on X - "WATCH: Montel Williams on CNN Thunderdome says the suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination was "a love-torn child" likely in the throes of "his first real relationship and someone was disparaging the person he loved" and thus not "motivated politically".... "There are people who are trying to pigeonhole this as a leftist thing and a right thing and what we're really talking about -- hear me, because I'm going to throw you when I say this, we're talking about a love torn child, a kid. This is probably his first real relationship. And somebody was disparaging the person that he loved. He sat on that building for 30 minutes before he took the shot. Why do you wait until the first word trans came up? Then he took the shot. I think he could hear it. I think he also -- I don't believe he was motivated politically. I think this was motivated emotionally. I think this was a emotionally stunted person who literally, when I say it this way, just hear me, tried to defend his significant other, not trying to defend some ideology.""
eugyppius on X - "Remember: Whenever the officially demarcated victim classes of late-stage liberalism commit any crime, their motivation is always individual, specific and at most an artefact of their repression. Whenever the officially demarcated perpetrator classes do the same, their motivation and their guilt is always generalised to everyone sharing their ethnic/political identity. These rigid rules are applied again and again, whatever the facts and in the face of all countervailing evidence."
@amuse on X - "HATE CRIME DATA: FBI racial hate-crime data hides that nearly 50% of victims are white, 5,813 cases in 2024. The Bureau spotlights every group except whites. This is political data manipulation. Don't trust LLMs like ChatGPT and Grok when it comes to FBI hate crime statistics because they rely on the FBI's woke framing of the data. In fact, try to get Gemini to create a chart about the issue and it will flat out refuse to help. The FBI’s 2024 racial hate-crime dataset shows 11,679 cases, but only 5,866 are labeled by race, 3,004 anti-black, 797 anti-Hispanic, 408 anti-Asian, and 1,657 non-white. The remaining 5,813 cases are anti-white, almost half of all reported hate crimes. Critics say FBI's data scientists highlight only select categories to promote a political narrative while concealing the true scale of anti-white victimization. The Bureau’s selective reporting undermines public trust and distorts national policy debates. Time to clean house and present the truth to the American people. h/t @TruthFairy131"
Thread by @TheXReportCard on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "FBI’s crime data explorer has a new category called “not specified” this is different from “unknown”. Left is 2022’s homicide data and right is 2023's data with the new “not specified” category. Note: the 2023 numbers are now below 50% for black homicide offender. Important 🧵
I'm going to use Springfield Ohio to show you how weird this new “not specified” category is. All 10 homicide offenders race are listed as “not specified” for 2023. Notice no victims are labeled as white. Now let’s go through all 10 of these homicides and see WHO the suspects are
*clearly black suspects recorded as race not specified*...
With this new skewed data it now appears like blacks commit less than 50% of the homicide which I hope this thread just proved to you isn't the case."
When crime statistics are unreliable
Sean Nicholls on X - "Before the Bondi attack, LGBTQIA+ Sydney teenagers were the first victims of a new outbreak of public violence linked to the terrorist network that produced gunmen Naveed and Sajid Akram. By @seanrubinsztein #ABCInvestigations"
Claire Lehmann on X - "Buried halfway through this news report is an acknowledgment that @abcnews have known about Muslim youths attacking gay teenagers via Grindr but have waited 2 years to report on it."
John Macgowan on X - "A string of organised attacks on gay kids by Middle Eastern adherents of ISIS - in 2024. No one reported this was happening. In 2024, ABC published this piece, claiming "US religious bigotry" was to blame:"
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Far-left group “Trans Justice Sydney” just put out a statement saying that they don’t want the ISIS terrorists who filmed themselves bashing and torturing gay kids in Sydney to be sent to prison. We instead need “non-carceral modes of accountability.” ITS LITERALLY FUCKING ISIS"
Simulator di tutti i Simulatori on X - "If an LGBTQ+ justice group comes out against the punishment of people BASHING AND TORTURING GAY KIDS, because the perpetrators are brown and the victims are white, there is no other explanation besides “the foundational principle of the modern left is the hatred of white people”"
