Liam Neeson race row - he wanted to kill a black man!
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No, this made me raise an eyebrow. I'm quite surprised he came out with something like that.
When I read this I thought this is the type of thing someone says when they are trying to make a shocking impact. Racism seems to be his bogey man so he came out with that story.
It wouldnt surprise me if it was made up. But then it also wouldn't surprise me if it was true, coming from his way of thinking. But either way he should be fired off. But I bet he isn't.
It wouldnt surprise me if it was made up. But then it also wouldn't surprise me if it was true, coming from his way of thinking. But either way he should be fired off. But I bet he isn't.
Wrong. I would find it equally offensive and so would many others. Racism is bad whatever direction it is pointed in.
I'm glad he was angry and wanted to hurt the person who did it, but wanting to take it out on anyone else is deeply wrong.
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He was the wrong skin colour to make such a statement
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I do imagine the age he is, and the place he grew up (Northern Ireland) he would have been racist back in the day
Career suicide telling that to a journalist though, especially adding the "*******" bit as well.
Career suicide telling that to a journalist though, especially adding the "*******" bit as well.
I read this too and don’t really understand why it was construed as racist.
He asked what colour the person was, as any Police might ask in the same situation.
He then acted on that information by choosing to hunt down a similar person to exact revenge.
I don’t see my of that as being directly racist.
To me, racist would be if he was told it was a white person, but he then decided to hunt down a coloured person instead, because, ‘black’.
He was certainly stupid then and perhaps unwise to let it out now, but not in my mind, racist.
He asked what colour the person was, as any Police might ask in the same situation.
He then acted on that information by choosing to hunt down a similar person to exact revenge.
I don’t see my of that as being directly racist.
To me, racist would be if he was told it was a white person, but he then decided to hunt down a coloured person instead, because, ‘black’.
He was certainly stupid then and perhaps unwise to let it out now, but not in my mind, racist.
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Because not all black people are rapists, obviously.
Eh???? He's intending to take out some form of revenge on random people based on their race. He's treating them differently, even though they've got nothing to do with the incident, simply because they're black.
How about this scenario - you're a small business owner, you've got a job vacancy at your business, you hear that at a family member's business a black person stole something, as a result you decide you're not going to hire any black people. Can you see how that is racist? Hearing about something a black person has done and then treating other black people differently as a result?
Depends really, in it's truest sense it probably is, to me it's racist as it's a person, not a persons colour, but depends on what condtioning you've been through, coming from rural areas initailly, where 99% white and fairly decent area, it's still weird for me to call people black. It's stereotyping, but I get it's the norm.
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You can take the man out of ballymena.....
Stop, you can’t post this yet without days of fake outrage first.
I think that's the key thing.
But it's legal and politically acceptable if the victims are the "wrong" "race", which is currently "white" in this part of the world. The person you're replying to was overstating their case only saying that "not a single person" would bat an eyelid. A few people would object, but no enough people with enough power for anything to come of it. For example, in the UK a feminist publically called on people to murder "white" men. That was fashionable irrational prejudice taken to a level extreme enough to attract some negative attention, but nothing came of it and other feminists had platforms in the mainstream media to write articles supporting her. That was obviously far worse than Liam Neeson saying that he had been racist many years ago under extreme circumstances and was ashamed of it.
What was he thinking?
He should have known that it's hip and trendy to discuss killing or assaulting white people, especially white, cis, heterosexual older men (to the point where celebs happily pile on to incite violence against school age kids) but for a white man to say something like this?
Think Liam must have been asleep for the past 20 of so years or at least in a bubble...
He should have known that it's hip and trendy to discuss killing or assaulting white people, especially white, cis, heterosexual older men (to the point where celebs happily pile on to incite violence against school age kids) but for a white man to say something like this?
Think Liam must have been asleep for the past 20 of so years or at least in a bubble...
