“‘I’m sorry’ in addition to the explanation goes a long way. He has a valid excuse, it’s not his fault, but nothing is lost by also apologizing for unintentional harm.”

I’ve been a pop culture journalist for over 10 years, which is both a terrifying and amazing concept — who would have thought that my love of celebrity gossip would literally pay my bills?

“One of our guests, John Davidson MBE, has Tourette Syndrome and has devoted his life to educating and campaigning for better understanding of this condition. Tourette Syndrome causes involuntary verbal tics, that the individual has no control over. Such tics are in no way a reflection of an individual’s beliefs and are not intentional. John Davidson is an executive producer of the BAFTA-nominated film, I Swear, which is based on his life experience,” it went on. “We take the duty of care to all our guests very seriously and start from a position of inclusion. We took measures to make those in attendance aware of the tics, announcing to the audience before the ceremony began, and throughout, that John was in the room and that they may hear strong language, involuntary noises or movements during the ceremony.”

blocking anyone defending that man lmao idgaf that he didn't mean to say it, just apologize for the fact that you did in fact say it!!!

Calling someone ableist for saying a man should simply apologize for saying the hard R is fucking wild 😭😭😭

As a disabled person it’s so annoying to see people use “disabled” as almost like an excuse to not have accountability. I socked someone in the face during a seizure, yeah it wasn’t my fault/wasn’t malicious but I apologized profusely after I came to bc they didn’t deserve that??

I have been quickly watching this and one thing I will say is interesting to me is that as someone with autism who often has to apologize for making social faux pas.Its seems very interesting to me how people are fighting so hard to defend ol' boy not doing the same.

One time my boyfriend accidentally hit me in the mouth when the power went out because his cpap cut off and he was gasping for air. He did not intend to hit me, it was an accident but he still APOLOGIZED. Like what’s not clicking for yall racist asses?