Needless to say that I didn’t watch last night’s BAFTA Awards ceremony, but I have of course got wind of the news about an actor with Tourette’s Syndrome using a nasty racist term. I can only point out that he couldn’t help it, any more than I can’t help dribbling. At the end of the day, his vocal tics are part of his disability. That fact should surely outweigh any offence caused. Indeed, I’ve met people who seem to find my dribbling just as offensive. Then again, this gives rise to the unseemly situation where one value must be weighed against the other.
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The Ill-Informed Ramblings of a Cripple 
I also did not watch the Baftas and know about this only through print stories. I think all sides are going to lose. The BBC for not censoring the ugly word before it went on the broadcast. The Bafta winning actor who left the ceremony after he realized what he said. Everyone knows it was not intentional. The two guys from Sinners (I thought it perhaps the most exciting film I have seen in years) point to the 250 plus years of discrimination African Americans have endured to explain their sensitivity. If I was King of the world, I would bring the three people involved together and let them work it out privately and tell the media to shut up.
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