RE: Liam Neeson: Rape, Revenge, and Race Relations
February 13, 2019 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2019 at 7:33 am by GrandizerII.)
If your aim is to just simply understand, sure. But then you're on a different mission than those people (some of whom actually have expertise in these matters and therefore have a fair understanding of what's going on) who want to see the problems that stem from some of these attitudes be addressed adequately.
As for Liam Neeson himself, part of the problem from what I've noted and from what others have noted isn't that he simply chose to be open about his past racist urge(s), but that he tried to trivialize/humanize it by referring to it as a primal urge and thereby not really acknowledging the problem. Also, trying to be a hero and all that. Perhaps you could go ask the other side as well about why they feel the way they do about this, and hence learn something you did not learn before? Surely you're not just interested in what one side only has to say, right?
As for Liam Neeson himself, part of the problem from what I've noted and from what others have noted isn't that he simply chose to be open about his past racist urge(s), but that he tried to trivialize/humanize it by referring to it as a primal urge and thereby not really acknowledging the problem. Also, trying to be a hero and all that. Perhaps you could go ask the other side as well about why they feel the way they do about this, and hence learn something you did not learn before? Surely you're not just interested in what one side only has to say, right?
