DR MARC SIEGEL: A racial slur at BAFTA — and what tolerance really means
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The BAFTA audience was shocked on Feb. 22 by racial slurs during the ceremony. But Tourette's activist John Davidson's condition explains involuntary outbursts.
Marc Siegel, M.D. is a professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is Fox News Channel's senior medical analyst. His forthcoming book is "The Miracles Among Us: How God's Grace Plays a Role in Healing" (Fox Books, November 18, 2025) and author of "COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science." Follow him on X @drmarcsiegel.
Beginning with "John’s Not Angry," a documentary about John Davidson’s behavior due to Tourette’s syndrome released in 1989, to "I Swear," which won multiple awards at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts this week, Davidson has been an incredible ambassador for the disease, culminating in his being awarded an MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2019.
It is now ironic that the very unprovoked and unbridled manifestations of the disease — which led made him to say again that he feels ashamed — are the very manifestations that require forbearance and understanding on the part of others.
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