RE: Liam Neeson: Rape, Revenge, and Race Relations
February 14, 2019 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2019 at 1:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We play an elaborate game of racist taboo where we attempt to discuss things like racial violence, the deeply ingrained nature of racism, and the potential of any person to rise above either...so long as we don't use the word racism. We can't have that serious discussion, in part, because any such discussion immediately turns into an airing of white grievance and sjw hysteria.
Consider Liams reaction to his own anecdote once it was out in the wild, at first it might seem like a moment of transcendence, but then it immediately gets backed away from in pursuant remarks, diluting any value it may have had as the man himself distanced his own comments from whatever truth about racism he might have otherwise expressed, leaving nothing but whatever noise is on twitter in that newly created void. The noise on twitter is then the subject, and thus the subject of -silent word-, the whole thing reduced to a running joke. What was he talking about? Not -silent word-, why would anyone think that, he asks an incredulous audience. So..what was it, then? Instincts, human nature, an uncontrollable emotional response, projection, a promotional stunt...anything...anything...but -silent word-.
There is no means to transcend the thing we cannot name. We'll be in limbo for as long as we're determined to be.
Consider Liams reaction to his own anecdote once it was out in the wild, at first it might seem like a moment of transcendence, but then it immediately gets backed away from in pursuant remarks, diluting any value it may have had as the man himself distanced his own comments from whatever truth about racism he might have otherwise expressed, leaving nothing but whatever noise is on twitter in that newly created void. The noise on twitter is then the subject, and thus the subject of -silent word-, the whole thing reduced to a running joke. What was he talking about? Not -silent word-, why would anyone think that, he asks an incredulous audience. So..what was it, then? Instincts, human nature, an uncontrollable emotional response, projection, a promotional stunt...anything...anything...but -silent word-.
There is no means to transcend the thing we cannot name. We'll be in limbo for as long as we're determined to be.
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