RE: Liam Neeson: Rape, Revenge, and Race Relations
February 6, 2019 at 11:16 am
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2019 at 11:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
In fairness, his comment on not being a racist was more of a present tense thing. The narrative is that he was ashamed precisely because he realized that this unconscious racism was ever-present. In that sense, he's not at all unlike the throngs of people who may not see themselves as racists even -as- they don the literal or metaphoric hood.
The amount of times I've heard "what's racist about that", though... spoken in earnest ...directly before or after the very definition of racism is communicated is..on the one hand, almost impossible for me to comprehend...but, on the other, an undeniably common occurrence. It's become a rule in my book that any comment directly preceding or following that question is effectively certain to be some of the most racist shit you'll ever hear. You can just stop a person before they even get to the meat and say "everything" with extremely high confidence.
The amount of times I've heard "what's racist about that", though... spoken in earnest ...directly before or after the very definition of racism is communicated is..on the one hand, almost impossible for me to comprehend...but, on the other, an undeniably common occurrence. It's become a rule in my book that any comment directly preceding or following that question is effectively certain to be some of the most racist shit you'll ever hear. You can just stop a person before they even get to the meat and say "everything" with extremely high confidence.
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