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Liam Neeson
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has he killed his own career?
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For goodness sake - a storm in a teacup. The incident happened 40 years ago. Liam didn't actually harm anyone and had no need to open up about this - actually confused as to why he did. How many can remember what they thought or did 40 years ago? He is a brilliant actor and I have recently watched him in Widows in which he was married to a "black" actress - Viola Davis. Brilliant film.
He was talking about his new film, he was saying he once parodied the main character was ashamed of the rage he felt at the time. In among all the hysterics there is at least one black man that gets it:
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Honesty and acceptance of self shame no longer appears to be a virtue any longer. I would rather he admitted what he did, with great regret and remorse, twenty years ago than listening to some virtue signalling luvvie telling us all how many asylum seekers and economic immigrants they are going to house. We are waiting Lilly Allen and Geildof.
I think it was less the incident and more the terminology he used.
If he'd have said ' I was so enraged and angry and hellbent on revenge that I was blinded to my own normal morals and sensibilities and I went around for a week just hoping to encounter a black man to assault as some sort of surrogate for my rage. I don't hold racist opinions at all and I am shocked and shamed at myself for the way I briefly behaved and glad that I soon snapped myself back to decency and normality' then that would have been fine.
What he actually said was ' I went round looking for some black *******' which throws a whole different light on what he felt then and what he considers to be normal language about racial groups now.
It's essentially the same story just told in a different way and he's old and wise enough of the media that he should have known what would happen.I said yesterday this would be a very big deal over here and it really, really is.
If he'd have said ' I was so enraged and angry and hellbent on revenge that I was blinded to my own normal morals and sensibilities and I went around for a week just hoping to encounter a black man to assault as some sort of surrogate for my rage. I don't hold racist opinions at all and I am shocked and shamed at myself for the way I briefly behaved and glad that I soon snapped myself back to decency and normality' then that would have been fine.
What he actually said was ' I went round looking for some black *******' which throws a whole different light on what he felt then and what he considers to be normal language about racial groups now.
It's essentially the same story just told in a different way and he's old and wise enough of the media that he should have known what would happen.I said yesterday this would be a very big deal over here and it really, really is.
//the original incident was very much racist//
Highly debateable and I would dispute that. The only reason he went out hoping to be attacked by a black man, thereby giving him (Neeson) the opportunity to wreak revenge, was because the rapist was black. As he said, had the attacker been of a different ethnicity, he wouldn’t have been looking for a black man.
Highly debateable and I would dispute that. The only reason he went out hoping to be attacked by a black man, thereby giving him (Neeson) the opportunity to wreak revenge, was because the rapist was black. As he said, had the attacker been of a different ethnicity, he wouldn’t have been looking for a black man.
