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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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.

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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).