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I heard a discussion in a company we share office space was (7 white women) and one of them, without irony said "The only racist people are blacks"
Liam Neeson race row - he wanted to kill a black man!
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I love when people purport to know the personality of celebrities and choose to arbitrarily like or dislike them based on a few interviews they may have seen, having never personally met them.
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They should have known that it’s impossible for black people to be racist.
I don't purport to know his personality. I said he comes across as a smug ****.
Has someone got a Qui-Gon Jinn dolly they cuddle to sleep?
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Dowie’s taken the Piers Morgan stance. He’ll be back to his anti-pc, right wing best before you know it.
That's a stupid comment, any race can be racist.
It's almost like every race is made up of individuals and not a hive mind. Madness!
I met him, he is actually very nice its also not really relevant, there conversation over
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In truth, he should have known better than to admit to this in these touchy-feely days we're living in now, where everybody is ready to take offence at the drop of a hat and a social media lynchmob exists ready to castigate anyone who heads off-message.
Rightly or wrongly, would any man who, having found out a friend or family member had been raped, have not reacted immediately with the same anger - particularly in the less-uptight times when this incident took place? What indeed was wrong, was to let that anger fester and be prepared to act on it over an extended period.
Lastly, were Liam Neeson black and expressed a desire to go out and kill 'a white *******' under similar provocation, would this be being reported with the same degree of fervour, or even reported at all?
Rightly or wrongly, would any man who, having found out a friend or family member had been raped, have not reacted immediately with the same anger - particularly in the less-uptight times when this incident took place? What indeed was wrong, was to let that anger fester and be prepared to act on it over an extended period.
Lastly, were Liam Neeson black and expressed a desire to go out and kill 'a white *******' under similar provocation, would this be being reported with the same degree of fervour, or even reported at all?
That's just as stupid as people who say "Black people can't be racist!"... lol
I don't see anything wrong with what he said, people often have irrational thoughts after something terrible happens to somebody they know, especially if another person is responsible.
There is a difference between thinking something and actually doing it, good for him for being honest, unfortunately, the PC world we live in isn't ready for honesty.
There is a difference between thinking something and actually doing it, good for him for being honest, unfortunately, the PC world we live in isn't ready for honesty.
It is insane to want to kill any black man because a black rapist raped your friend. Wanting to kill a rapist would make some sense, while being black is arbitrary in that context.
Brilliant
I can't say I've ever heard any white office workers being openly racist like that in several years of working in London. It is interesting to hear some mixed race (black/white) people though, they have the odd situation where they can feel quite free to air bigoted views(if they have such views) about either race without much chance of comeback because they are simultaneously part of the group they're attacking while also being different to it.
For example a mixed race(black/white) girl, in a group of white and asian guys and one black guy at a place I worked observing a black girl being really loud and kicking off at some bloke outside a pub. She was quite happy to say something along the lines of "Oh god, I really hate black women, they're so loud and obnoxious" then turned to the black guy and said "no offence". Then launched into a rant about how whenever she dates a black guy all black women hate her/get jealous about her etc... Now she perhaps wouldn't have felt empowered to say such a thing in front of a black woman but no one there directly admonished or criticised her over it, likewise no one nodded in agreement either, it was just awkward and the only thing to do was to question it like "surely not all black women?" etc.. etc.. which just prompted a further rant along the lines of "no, it happens all the time etc.."
It isn't the sort of thing that would lead people to think she was racist in the same way that if say a white person had said the same thing, obviously it was absolutely racist but it was sort of acceptable/tolerated while also being rather uncomfortable.
But he didn't just think something, he went wandering the streets armed with a weapon hoping he'd get the chance to kill a black person, that he didn't is more down to him not being presented with the situation where he could rather than anything he didn't do.
(not to mention that his scenario is perhaps rather hard to pull off than perhaps he thought at the time where he imagined that black people in a black area would just randomly attack him).
Well, it appears not all anti-pc right wingers are racist.
Maybe it's not quite the Holy Trinity that some think it is.
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Brilliant
I can't say I've ever heard any white office workers being openly racist like that in several years of working in London. It is interesting to hear some mixed race (black/white) people though, they have the odd situation where they can feel quite free to air bigoted views(if they have such views) about either race without much chance of comeback because they are simultaneously part of the group they're attacking while also being different to it.
She was going on about a snickers advert with black people and Elton John being racist....not seen it.
She's from Vange in Essex, which isn't a nice place.
I get the old racist no longer sees himself as a racist and most probably isn't (in any extreme way) these days, however anyone who says the phrase 'black *******' in the way/context he said it is performing a racist act and the fact the majority, including himself, are missing this point is why it has blown into this farce.
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I have no strong feelings towards him either way, I quite liked Taken, I think most of his other movies have been a bit crap, that about sums my views up. What are you basing him being smug on?
Isn’t the whole point of his comments that he himself, and everyone, is capable of racist or otherwise disturbing primal behaviour, and that we should be open and acknowledge this rather than pretending we are above it all.
Yes, horrible comments and thoughts. Yup.
Yes, horrible comments and thoughts. Yup.
That's how I've seen it. However I can't speak for any black person, but I'm sure hearing his comments and what he did must be sickening to their core considering the historical violent racism they have faced and in some places of the world continue to face.