What do you think about Liam Neeson admitting he once wanted to kill a black man?
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Anonymous
| What is your opinion about this? He was being honest, but how many people actually feel this way? |
Anonymous
| Wasn’t he talking about a specific person who had raped a family member? |
Anonymous
Yes. He said a woman he knew was raped and she told Liam that it was a black man who raped her. He said he went out for a week and a half walking the streets of the city he was in, looking and waiting for a black man to do something that would justify him beating/killing them. He said he later came to his senses and realized that revenge was not the answer. He said he confessed his sins during confession. He said he was not a racist. |
Anonymous
No, he talked about hurting a random black person because his friend/family was raped by a black person. I think he's incredibly stupid to have admitted this and to not have realized that it would blow up in his face. I appreciate that he realizes that it was wrong and that he was trying to explain that he was wrong and that he understands how people can become consumed with blind rage--but his description of the whole thing was weird and really badly handled. His publicist must have been having a fit. |
Anonymous
| I don’t have a problem with that. I think if she had said it was a tall man with blond hair he would’ve done the same thing. Love and learn. |
Anonymous
| He should be the governor of Virginia |
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. |
Anonymous
Very doubtful. |
Anonymous
He basically said that. He grew up during the Troubles. |
Anonymous
| The posts at 7:59 and 8:00 show why this is a big deal. And also why he said it, now, instead of some other time. |
Anonymous
It probably would have been better for him if he kept it to himself--maybe people will see that he openly admitted it and is in a different place, trying to be a better person. No, he's not like the Governor of Virginia. |
Anonymous
Yep. In this country we see everything in terms of race, but in a place like Northern Ireland the distinction was catholic vs Protestant. It’s tribalism really, who you belong to and who is “other”. We just have a shallow understanding here in this country, and only see one type of distinction. I think he was being honest, but our current level of discourse does not allow for any nuance at all. I love him, but I think talking about this publicly was a mistake. |
Anonymous
| I understand it. I went through something similar, but not with a black person. I had never felt so much hate in a moment for an entire ethnic group in my life. It was a fleeting moment from a visceral reaction to something horrible. |
Anonymous
Ireland/Northern Ireland have their own issues with race as well, even if it's secondary to the sectarian stuff. |
Anonymous
| I assume most white people of a certain age from certain locations had racist tendencies in their past if they don’t still currently have them. |