Liam Neeson race row - he wanted to kill a black man!

IvanDobskey said:
Because everyone knows all black men are rapists :rolleyes:

Guy is obviously a racist.

I don't think this story is going to do his reputation much good and rightly so.
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It won't make a difference, because the people who watch his stuff don't give a **** about something that [almost] happened decades ago. If it was something the terminally offended idolize then maybe.
 
I don't think the race of the rapist matters. That's the tiny bit of info he has.

That's a pretty massive confession though! I can't blame him for wanting revenge, but I'm sure he's pleased that he didn't find them because that would have pushed his life in a very bad direction.

Revenge never achieves anything.
 
He reacted to a traumatic event in a way he knew how at the time. If your wife/daughter/mother/sister got raped wouldn't your initial reaction be to get revenge?

He has also admitted he is glad he didn't find them and how stupid it is. We all make stupid snap decisions that we regret later on, I can't see the point in putting someone down for especially when a) it was at a different time to now and b) they acknowledge it wasn't a good thing and regret it.
 
AHarvey said:
He reacted to a traumatic event in a way he knew how at the time. If your wife/daughter/mother/sister got raped wouldn't your initial reaction be to get revenge?

He has also admitted he is glad he didn't find them and how stupid it is. We all make stupid snap decisions that we regret later on, I can't see the point in putting someone down for especially when a) it was at a different time to now and b) they acknowledge it wasn't a good thing and regret it.
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If someone i knew was raped by someone i wouldnt randomly want to kill someone because of their colour.

I just knew when i heard this story this morning that people would justify it on GD. The mans a racist and his career should be finished.
 
ajf said:
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.
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I've highlighted the flaw in your reasoning for you. Similar in an irrelevant category is bad, bad logic. It's racism because he decides that someone's race is sufficient quality to class dissimilar people together.
 
Yadda said:
Maybe he's playing to the racist coin, hoping to get them to the cinema?
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Maybe he just feels the need or desire to be open and confess past wrongs or talk about how one can grow and change from the attitudes you received as a young person.
 
omnomnom said:
If someone i knew was raped by someone i wouldnt randomly want to kill someone because of their colour.

I just knew when i heard this story this morning that people would justify it on GD. The mans a racist and his career should be finished.
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You've probably never grown up in a strongly divided community. It's basic tribalism. A catholic man stabs a protestant man and it's not one individual targetting another individual, it's them attacking us. An Israeli and a Palestinian, a Hindu and a Muslim, a Montague and a Capulet. You, rightly, don't see different skin colours as different communities. But that's how some people are raised and it seems Liam Neeson was. With age and experience he's seen that race isn't a determiner of community. This doesn't show that he's a racist. You seem to take the view that racism is an inherent trait in someone rather than a belief someone might have and then reject. The interview shows he was racist and regrets it. Is there no space for repentance? None for pardon left?
 
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The point that seems to be missed when he's being attacked by this is that he himself thinks it is horrendous. He says exactly that from the quotes I have read. It's the whole point of the story I think.

He isn't that person any more - and by introspection, and looking back at his own actions and judging them, he has improved. Should he be judged now for admitting that he used to be racist, has changed, and hates what he used to be?
 
h4rm0ny said:
You've probably never grown up in a strongly divided community. It's basic tribalism. A catholic man stabs a protestant man and it's not one individual targetting another individual, it's them attacking us. An Israeli and a Palestinian, a Hindu and a Muslim, a Montague and a Capulet. You, rightly, don't see different skin colours as different communities. But that's how some people are raised and it seems Liam Neeson was. With age and experience he's seen that race isn't a determiner of community. This doesn't show that he's a racist. You seem to take the view that racism is an inherent trait in someone rather than a belief someone might have and then reject. The interview shows he was racist and regrets it. Is there no space for repentance? None for pardon left?
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""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 [uses air quotes with fingers] 'black b word' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.""

I take that as he regrets the action of wanting to kill someone. He did not need to mention a race here at all...

If someone i know is assaulted or raped I dont immediately ask them what race they were...I sure as hell done roam the streets hoping to kill someone of that race. That is some deep rooted racism.
 
This kind of thing seems pretty rare now, I mean you would have had the streets awash with tooled up people after the recent mass rapes in the north otherwise.
 
Doesn't he know the outrage mob doesn't consider the possibility that people can change and reflect on past misdeeds? Basically thrown himself to the wolves with this one.

Guess this is what happened at the end of The Grey, then. Mystery solved.
 
bazzabear said:
The point that seems to be missed when he's being attacked by this is that he himself thinks it is horrendous. He says exactly that from the quotes I have read. It's the whole point of the story I think.

He isn't that person any more - and by introspection, and looking back at his own actions and judging them, he has improved. Should he be judged now for admitting that he used to be racist, has changed, and hates what he used to be?
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Too hard for the professionally offended to read anything past the part they want to get offended about. Any sane reasonable person would read all of what he said and actually think, fair enough. Sadly sanity and reason has fallen out of favour.
 
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