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wafflesrisa · 3 months

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As an actually autistic person who learned English as a second language can I just say this about Yuki:

If your reaction to Yuki’s sincere apology, written in his own cadence and “imperfect” English, is to disbelieve his statement that he genuinely did not know what the R-slur meant and then call for cancelling him on all platforms -

I want you to take a long look at yourself and think hard about where your expectation that he is lying about his knowledge of the term actually comes from. Think about it for a second.

You are not actually helping autistic people. You’re just racist.

#f1 #yuki tsunoda #for the record I am happy they fined him because an example does need to be made #but I am happy they suspended half of the fine #because he literally did it unintentionally and was horrified and apologised publicly #it was proportionate. I’m glad he apologised. let’s move on #I am DONE with the rise of white knight cancel culture where people who haven’t grown up in English language spaces #are held to frankly colonialist mindset linguistic standards #‘he should have known what it meant’#well WHERE do u think he learnt the word. we need to take a long long at the f1 garages and ableism there #but ripping yuki apart and accusing him of lying about not knowing what it meant? you’re just racist #tw ableism #tw racism #actually autistic

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