RE: Liam Neeson: Rape, Revenge, and Race Relations
February 13, 2019 at 2:58 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2019 at 3:09 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 13, 2019 at 2:55 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: It very literally is your problem. It's quickly becoming a problem for other people. It's not because you're a chump..but because racists aren't. They've modified their approach to what works.
"PC extremists" try to shut this or that down because it was deplatforming that made racism a fringe ism for these last few decades. Nobody gave some hood wearing yokel the time of day. Now they sell out stadiums and generate clicks...thatl;s changed, because they found a way around deplatforming by altering their packaging.
Look, if your method of changing ideas is to prevent the expression of contrary ideas by bullying tactics, then you're doing it wrong. Let me pick no bones about this one-- free speech is right, and attempts to limit it to the scope of any particular dogma are wrong. End of story.
Let's take the current example. Neeson was very clearly attempting to shed light on the negative instincts that can take hold of people; it was a commentary on human nature, and an attempt to show that a bad moral moment doesn't have to define a person's life.
If you consider intent, then you'll see that Neeson is one of the good guys. If you consider only trigger words and memes, then you'll end up with a bunch of screechy nitwits saying how he's carrying the script for the alt-right.
