In a world of manufactured outrage, where people go ballistic about whether oat milk should be called oat milk or not, it’s too easy to get outrage fatigue. We end up shrugging at everything: oat milk, paedophiles, genocide, whatever. But sometimes, something complex happens which cannot be addressed either by clickbait outrage or whataboutery — like the Bafta debacle. The white man with a neurological disability involuntarily shouting the worst racial slur of them all at two Black men. BBC shockerThe absolute shocker here — the unfathomable, incomprehensible jaw-dropping shocker — is how the BBC handled it.

Source: Irish Examiner March 02, 2026 14:04 UTC