Trending Now: Celebrity luvvies only have compassion for themselves – Fans React

If ever we needed evidence that the Left reserves its empathy only for itself, then we found it at the Baftas this week.

Luvvies lambasted Tourette’s sufferer John Davidson for an unfortunate outburst – with assorted no-marks desperate to turn it into a drama about themselves.

Mr Davidson, who featured in the 1989 documentary series John’s Not Mad, was at the star-studded ceremony because a film about his life, called I Swear, had been nominated for a number of awards, including Best Actor, which was won by Robert Aramayo.

He caused considerable offence by shouting the N-word at two actors, Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo, when they took to the stage. The BBC also incurred the wrath of the so-called progressives for failing to edit out the strong language.

Actors Jamie Foxx and Wendell Pierce swiftly condemned the incident on social media, with Pierce deeming it “infuriating” and Foxx claiming that Davidson “meant that s***”. Production designer Hannah Beachler, who is also black, later alleged that Davidson had directed racial slurs at her too.

Following the ceremony, Mr Davidson said he was “deeply mortified if anyone considers [his] involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning”.

In summary: a man with a disability was invited to the Baftas to help throw a spotlight on a film intended to promote better understanding of Tourette’s, only to be criticised by those displaying their own ignorance of the condition. Don’t disabled lives matter?

Had critics actually watched the film, they’d know that sufferers of this debilitating condition have no control whatsoever over what they blurt out. Indeed, Mr Davidson once yelled “F*** the Queen” at the late Queen – a comment she quickly brushed aside.

We see this deficit of empathy among supposed empaths everywhere. The campaign for assisted suicide, for example, implies a total disregard for the views of many disabled people, who worry that introducing the policy would encourage people to think they were a burden on society.

It’s all too easy for celebrity supporters of mass migration, meanwhile, to pontificate on our “responsibility” to take in apparently unlimited numbers of migrants, while ignoring the costs of that migration to ordinary men and women who don’t enjoy such privileged lives as themselves.

This week, we also had to endure the spectacle of Prince Harry opining over people’s mental health during a trip to Jordan. “It’s okay to not be okay,” he wrote on a Post-It note, seemingly oblivious to the misery he’s caused his own family. And yet we’re supposed to believe these are the people who hold the monopoly on compassion?

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