What do you think about Liam Neeson admitting he once wanted to kill a black man?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he’s a racist f*ck. Had the friend been raped by a white person he absolutely would not have been looking for ANY white person to kill.

Yes, he grew up in a different time but it still shows who he was as a person. He could not distinguish the individual from the group. This is what is still happening today.

Uh, that's not at all what's going on here. Calm down. Of course he didn't rationally think all black men are rapists, any more than the crackhead example cited above. Not PC maybe but I think this is incredibly blown out of proportion (and have no idea why he brought it up at all).

Uh, that is exactly what is going on here. He specifically said he was looking for any “black bastard”.

Read exactly what he said again “‘I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] “black bastard” would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could… kill him”

But carry on, make excuses for racist behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has a movie coming out this weekend, and I'm sure the movie company and his publicist want to strangle him for being so stupid. People really shouldn't say everything that is on their minds.

I was raped by 2 black guys and my DH's cousin was bound and gagged and put in a trunk by some black guys. While we wouldn't go around saying the same thing as Liam, our families probably feel the same way.

I'm so sorry PP. I hope you find some peace.

[Anonymous]

What is a cost.

[Anonymous]

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The feeling is perhaps natural, as long as it's very temporary. I hope he's not surprised at the backlash, because those are the things you don't express publicly.

If you are white. It’s only socially acceptable for minorities to vent their general hatred towards whites based on past negative experiences with other whites.

Go away and take your hood with you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think he’s a racist f*ck. Had the friend been raped by a white person he absolutely would not have been looking for ANY white person to kill.

Yes, he grew up in a different time but it still shows who he was as a person. He could not distinguish the individual from the group. This is what is still happening today.

Uh, that's not at all what's going on here. Calm down. Of course he didn't rationally think all black men are rapists, any more than the crackhead example cited above. Not PC maybe but I think this is incredibly blown out of proportion (and have no idea why he brought it up at all).

That's a ridiculous parsing of what he said. He said he was looking for any random "black bastard" to cosh on the head, presumably to kill or hurt terribly. Of course that means he equates all black men with the rapist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think he’s a racist f*ck. Had the friend been raped by a white person he absolutely would not have been looking for ANY white person to kill.

Yes, he grew up in a different time but it still shows who he was as a person. He could not distinguish the individual from the group. This is what is still happening today.

Uh, that's not at all what's going on here. Calm down. Of course he didn't rationally think all black men are rapists, any more than the crackhead example cited above. Not PC maybe but I think this is incredibly blown out of proportion (and have no idea why he brought it up at all).

That's a ridiculous parsing of what he said. He said he was looking for any random "black bastard" to cosh on the head, presumably to kill or hurt terribly. Of course that means he equates all black men with the rapist.

He specifically said he wanted to kill a black bastard.

“‘I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] “black bastard” would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could… kill him.”

Some of these PPs want to rewrite what he said to make it less offensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is a cost.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cosh

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is 100% racist. I can’t believe everyone doesn’t agree to that. If she said she was raped by a white guy, no way he would have gone out looking for any white guy to kill. And most likely, she wouldn’t have just said a white guy. She would have said a blonde with an accent from Manchester or something like that, and he would have gone out to a pub after a Manchester game and looked for a blonde guy to pick a fight. The fact is that he saw only the race. That is racist.

He’s said or done other icky things before, I think. At the beginning off his career, I really liked him but I feel like as the years go on, he’s less impressive.

This confession would have been much more sincere if he’d expressed it as “growing up in Northern Ireland, I didn’t meet many black people. And I know I have prejudices I need to overcome ....”

Thank goodness. The past pages of rationalizations and normalization are a nice explanation of how racism has lasted this long.

+1. When you generalize to an entire group based on one person's actions, that is racist.

I'm a multiracial black person, and have a distant non-black relative who was apparently raped by a black man. Years later, she now apparently hates all black people. That is also racist. You don't see black women who are raped by black men hating all black men, white women who are raped by white men hating all white men, etc. The idea of picking out the color of their skin as the most prominent feature and then extrapolating negative associations to all people with the same color skin is racist.

I think this is a poor and short-sighted example. I was sexually assaulted by an Indian man and would experience PTSD symptoms for a very long time at the sound of a male Indian accent. Twenty years out I am still leery of Indian men. This is not racist, this is a result of being traumatized by a certain type of person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is 100% racist. I can’t believe everyone doesn’t agree to that. If she said she was raped by a white guy, no way he would have gone out looking for any white guy to kill. And most likely, she wouldn’t have just said a white guy. She would have said a blonde with an accent from Manchester or something like that, and he would have gone out to a pub after a Manchester game and looked for a blonde guy to pick a fight. The fact is that he saw only the race. That is racist.

He’s said or done other icky things before, I think. At the beginning off his career, I really liked him but I feel like as the years go on, he’s less impressive.

This confession would have been much more sincere if he’d expressed it as “growing up in Northern Ireland, I didn’t meet many black people. And I know I have prejudices I need to overcome ....”

Thank goodness. The past pages of rationalizations and normalization are a nice explanation of how racism has lasted this long.

+1. When you generalize to an entire group based on one person's actions, that is racist.

I'm a multiracial black person, and have a distant non-black relative who was apparently raped by a black man. Years later, she now apparently hates all black people. That is also racist. You don't see black women who are raped by black men hating all black men, white women who are raped by white men hating all white men, etc. The idea of picking out the color of their skin as the most prominent feature and then extrapolating negative associations to all people with the same color skin is racist.

I think this is a poor and short-sighted example. I was sexually assaulted by an Indian man and would experience PTSD symptoms for a very long time at the sound of a male Indian accent. Twenty years out I am still leery of Indian men. This is not racist, this is a result of being traumatized by a certain type of person.

+1 And actually, some white women who are raped by white men, do become fearful of men in general, including white men.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is 100% racist. I can’t believe everyone doesn’t agree to that. If she said she was raped by a white guy, no way he would have gone out looking for any white guy to kill. And most likely, she wouldn’t have just said a white guy. She would have said a blonde with an accent from Manchester or something like that, and he would have gone out to a pub after a Manchester game and looked for a blonde guy to pick a fight. The fact is that he saw only the race. That is racist.

He’s said or done other icky things before, I think. At the beginning off his career, I really liked him but I feel like as the years go on, he’s less impressive.

This confession would have been much more sincere if he’d expressed it as “growing up in Northern Ireland, I didn’t meet many black people. And I know I have prejudices I need to overcome ....”

Thank goodness. The past pages of rationalizations and normalization are a nice explanation of how racism has lasted this long.

+1. When you generalize to an entire group based on one person's actions, that is racist.

I'm a multiracial black person, and have a distant non-black relative who was apparently raped by a black man. Years later, she now apparently hates all black people. That is also racist. You don't see black women who are raped by black men hating all black men, white women who are raped by white men hating all white men, etc. The idea of picking out the color of their skin as the most prominent feature and then extrapolating negative associations to all people with the same color skin is racist.

I think this is a poor and short-sighted example. I was sexually assaulted by an Indian man and would experience PTSD symptoms for a very long time at the sound of a male Indian accent. Twenty years out I am still leery of Indian men. This is not racist, this is a result of being traumatized by a certain type of person.

+1 And actually, some white women who are raped by white men, do become fearful of men in general, including white men.

OK, but Liam Neeson wasn't raped. He can't, and doesn't, claim to be suffering PTSD from his friend's rape. He just wanted revenge, and was ready to attack someone from the same racial group as the rapist.

[Anonymous]

I think if you've never been raped or had a friend raped, you are being naive to suggest you wouldn't feel the same way as Liam.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is 100% racist. I can’t believe everyone doesn’t agree to that. If she said she was raped by a white guy, no way he would have gone out looking for any white guy to kill. And most likely, she wouldn’t have just said a white guy. She would have said a blonde with an accent from Manchester or something like that, and he would have gone out to a pub after a Manchester game and looked for a blonde guy to pick a fight. The fact is that he saw only the race. That is racist.

He’s said or done other icky things before, I think. At the beginning off his career, I really liked him but I feel like as the years go on, he’s less impressive.

This confession would have been much more sincere if he’d expressed it as “growing up in Northern Ireland, I didn’t meet many black people. And I know I have prejudices I need to overcome ....”

Thank goodness. The past pages of rationalizations and normalization are a nice explanation of how racism has lasted this long.

+1. When you generalize to an entire group based on one person's actions, that is racist.

I'm a multiracial black person, and have a distant non-black relative who was apparently raped by a black man. Years later, she now apparently hates all black people. That is also racist. You don't see black women who are raped by black men hating all black men, white women who are raped by white men hating all white men, etc. The idea of picking out the color of their skin as the most prominent feature and then extrapolating negative associations to all people with the same color skin is racist.

I think this is a poor and short-sighted example. I was sexually assaulted by an Indian man and would experience PTSD symptoms for a very long time at the sound of a male Indian accent. Twenty years out I am still leery of Indian men. This is not racist, this is a result of being traumatized by a certain type of person.

+1 And actually, some white women who are raped by white men, do become fearful of men in general, including white men.

OK, but Liam Neeson wasn't raped. He can't, and doesn't, claim to be suffering PTSD from his friend's rape. He just wanted revenge, and was ready to attack someone from the same racial group as the rapist.

That's very woke of you, to think that a man shouldn't feel anything when a woman is raped.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is 100% racist. I can’t believe everyone doesn’t agree to that. If she said she was raped by a white guy, no way he would have gone out looking for any white guy to kill. And most likely, she wouldn’t have just said a white guy. She would have said a blonde with an accent from Manchester or something like that, and he would have gone out to a pub after a Manchester game and looked for a blonde guy to pick a fight. The fact is that he saw only the race. That is racist.

He’s said or done other icky things before, I think. At the beginning off his career, I really liked him but I feel like as the years go on, he’s less impressive.

This confession would have been much more sincere if he’d expressed it as “growing up in Northern Ireland, I didn’t meet many black people. And I know I have prejudices I need to overcome ....”

Thank goodness. The past pages of rationalizations and normalization are a nice explanation of how racism has lasted this long.

+1. When you generalize to an entire group based on one person's actions, that is racist.

I'm a multiracial black person, and have a distant non-black relative who was apparently raped by a black man. Years later, she now apparently hates all black people. That is also racist. You don't see black women who are raped by black men hating all black men, white women who are raped by white men hating all white men, etc. The idea of picking out the color of their skin as the most prominent feature and then extrapolating negative associations to all people with the same color skin is racist.

I think this is a poor and short-sighted example. I was sexually assaulted by an Indian man and would experience PTSD symptoms for a very long time at the sound of a male Indian accent. Twenty years out I am still leery of Indian men. This is not racist, this is a result of being traumatized by a certain type of person.

+1 And actually, some white women who are raped by white men, do become fearful of men in general, including white men.

OK, but Liam Neeson wasn't raped. He can't, and doesn't, claim to be suffering PTSD from his friend's rape. He just wanted revenge, and was ready to attack someone from the same racial group as the rapist.

That's very woke of you, to think that a man shouldn't feel anything when a woman is raped.

Huh? He can feel something, such as anger towards the rapist. But I don't think it's common for friends of a victim to have the same visceral reaction as the victim as the PP is describing above in relation to Indian men. And the key point is that even he doesn't suggest that he was feeling that. He was just very angry about it, and wanted to lash out.

[Anonymous]

This topic is funny to me, whenever it comes up. White people LOVE to say things like “Black people should get over this or that terrible awful thing that happened to them and move on!” Or “It wasn’t MY family that owned slaves, why should I have to feel badly?”

But whenever someone black does something, it’s acceptable to react to other black people based upon that incident. PP upthread was raped by black guys so her family hates black guys. Hey, no problem! Black people have been treated like crap by other races in many situations but...don’t dwell on it! Move on!

How can people stomach the complete hypocrisy? It really boggles the mind but doesn’t surprise me.

[Anonymous]

It's one way to FEEL a certain way and another to act on it. He said he was ACTIVELY trying to run into an innocent black man to kill him! Wow, just wow!