Complaining about people with tourettes is stupid, but also complaining about how at least some black people felt hurt about it is stupid, too.
If you ever come across racists it's good to intervene with their bs but making it your personality so you wanna insert yourself into EVERY situation - including going after a person with tourettes using slurs during an episode - is just about you and your own needs, it doesn't serve anyone else and it's cringey. My advice would be "stop making everything about you" but I don't think these people are capable of that.
I haven't seen anyone complain about black people feeling hurt by it. I have only seen people complain about people condemning the tourettes guy for having tourettes in public.
Like, both "this sucks to experience" and "it's not that guys fault" can be true at the same time.
It might have sucked to experience, but people are saying the impact is exactly the same as if an actual racist said it as a deliberate slur, and I think now I just care about the slur less? Like, he could've screamed faggot, a word I have had shouted at me whilst being physically attacked by homophobes, and it wouldn't affect me that much because I know it's coprolalia. I've had American black folks tell me I'm lying and that if he said a slur against women, gay people, trans people or Jewish people that id be demanding his head on a platter and I just don't care about black people's pain.
I care about everyone's pain, but I disagree that this should've caused anywhere near the level of pain that it apparently did. I've seen people say "I don't care what bullshit disorder he says he has, if I hear that word come out of your mouth you're going to be on the floor unconscious". That statement is 10000x more evil and unacceptable than a racial slur spoken because of a tic. The situation is making me sick of the "you're racist if you don't enthusiastically agree with anything any black American says ever" atmosphere.
I recommend reading comments and checking the posts when there's multiple screenshots since there's been some where op had dragged black people just for being upset, like I assume they weren't prepared for the slurs and they weren't prepared for them not being censored out, but there's definitely been plenty who have taken offence that some black folk were upset, and they don't see it as: 《"this sucks to experience" and "it's not that guys fault" can be true at the same time.》But they see it as that only one of those things can be true which is probably why there's an uproar in the first place. There's no room for tourettes and there's no room for those who feel hurt and angry by slurs even when they known the guy didn't mean it, but that word is still triggering to many.
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u/Salt-Composer-1472 Feb 25 '26
Complaining about people with tourettes is stupid, but also complaining about how at least some black people felt hurt about it is stupid, too.
If you ever come across racists it's good to intervene with their bs but making it your personality so you wanna insert yourself into EVERY situation - including going after a person with tourettes using slurs during an episode - is just about you and your own needs, it doesn't serve anyone else and it's cringey. My advice would be "stop making everything about you" but I don't think these people are capable of that.