Local white woman Catherine Galloway just became an overnight expert in coprolalia.
This condition — a symptom of Tourette’s Syndrome which can cause someone to utter prfanities and slurs involuntarily — was brought into the public eye several months ago after documentarian John Davidson, who has coprolalia, involuntarily uttered the n-word during an award ceremony while two Black actors were on stage.
The discourse was exactly as unpleasant and exhausting as one might imagine. The spectrum of “debate” in this short news cycle included white people telling Black people to “just get over it because he couldn’t help it” and others insisting that Davidson must have “meant that” despite the involuntary nature of his impairment.
When discussing the event recently with her friends in a Facebook group, Catherine Galloway promptly declared that, if she had Tourette’s Syndrome, her tics would only consist of “good ones.”
“Can’t these folks just yell at people to have a nice day or something? Those are the kinds of tics I would have!” she stated.
“I know they can’t control it! I get it!” said Galloway, demonstrating that she did not get it, “but that is such an awful word! Why was that word at the top of his mind at that specific time? It’s just a little too convenient.”
After being informed that the BBC had intentionally amplified Davidson’s audio and omitted many of his other tics throughout the night, as the award show was not broadcast live, Galloway was flummoxed but remained steadfast: “If he just had to shout something in that moment, why didn’t he shout that Black Lives Matter?”
Sick of her bullshit, one of Galloway’s acquaintances, Mia Washington, asked her to name the two Black actors who were onstage during that moment.
Unable to recall Michael B. Jordan or Delroy Wilco, Galloway thus muted the comments section.