RE: Liam Neeson: Rape, Revenge, and Race Relations
February 14, 2019 at 5:35 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2019 at 5:36 am by bennyboy.)
(February 14, 2019 at 3:41 am)Grandizer Wrote: It's a poor judgment call in all sorts of ways. The most important thing he should've done is he should've picked up a different inspiring story to recount instead, one that wouldn't have negatively affected a significant subgroup of people with a history of oppression and violence afflicted upon them by white people. But even with the initial damage done, he could at least have not tried to insult the intelligence of those people in the second interview by saying such things as him not being [presently] racist (even if that was so) and saying he considered height as well and not just skin color ...
Eh?
He picked the story to illustrate a fork in the road involving racism, hatred, shame, and recovery. It's a story that we should hope more people could tell.
Why would he white-wash a story which was exactly about the things you say he shouldn't be talking about? Then there'd have been no point telling the story. Not sure you're getting the context, here.
