RE: Liam Neeson: Rape, Revenge, and Race Relations
February 14, 2019 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2019 at 5:03 pm by Athene.)
While Neeson reflected on the negative toll that anger/rage/vengeance took on HIM personally, he FAILED to examine or even acknowledge the jump he made from knowing that single black man was responsible to holding ANY and ALL of them accountable....and the devastating impact that line of thinking has on people's lives; People BESIDES Liam Neeson.
So, he's seen the error of his ways in giving in to his most violent impulses. Great. Good for him. Truly.
That does not mean that he doesn't believe the racist "logic" driving them wasn't sound and that it still doesn't inform his non-violent actions and decisions. They are two separate issues.
And of yet, Neeson has been decidedly unwilling or unable to address that shoddy "logic", other than vaguely alluding that his racial prejudice was somehow POWER-WALKED away right along with his violent rage and maintaining that he CAN'T be racist just because he no longer seeks to actually KILL 'black bastards'.
Now, if Neeson doesn't think the racist mental leaps are worthy of analyzing so long as he controls his violent urges, so be it. He is free to do so.
Others are free to conclude that he's a lousy person because of that AND to sit out watching his tired-ass, shitty movies featuring SAME FUCKING PLOT over and over again.
Hit dogs are hollering, of course, and woefully outraged that many people will reach such a conclusion because casual racists require constant reassurance that they're "good people" despite harboring profound racial prejudice with little to no self-examination and are constantly seeking to GASLIGHT folks into believing that they're the victims in order to feel better about being pieces of shit. Because unlike decent people who harbor racial prejudice and DO make a sincere to effort examine their thoughts and feelings, casual racists are only concerned with having freedom from the social consequences of being an ASS. They envision a return to a world where their bigoted behavior and racist microaggressions will go unchallenged and ignored, and they can continuously be propped up and regarded as "great" people with great minds no matter what they say or do.
Well, they're not. not really.
And I, as well as many others, refuse to entertain this DELUSION in which they're okay, and everyone else has the fucking problem.
LOL....Hit dogs can throw tantrums, cry "Fucking SJWs!", and toss around all the insults they want.
It matters not.
Smart, decent people are hip to the bullshit games these motherfuckers like to play and expect nothing less. And they're not going be goaded into shutting up.
It would appear that racist motherfuckers who don't like being called 'racist' are just going to have to learn to deal with that.
So, he's seen the error of his ways in giving in to his most violent impulses. Great. Good for him. Truly.
That does not mean that he doesn't believe the racist "logic" driving them wasn't sound and that it still doesn't inform his non-violent actions and decisions. They are two separate issues.
And of yet, Neeson has been decidedly unwilling or unable to address that shoddy "logic", other than vaguely alluding that his racial prejudice was somehow POWER-WALKED away right along with his violent rage and maintaining that he CAN'T be racist just because he no longer seeks to actually KILL 'black bastards'.
Now, if Neeson doesn't think the racist mental leaps are worthy of analyzing so long as he controls his violent urges, so be it. He is free to do so.
Others are free to conclude that he's a lousy person because of that AND to sit out watching his tired-ass, shitty movies featuring SAME FUCKING PLOT over and over again.
Hit dogs are hollering, of course, and woefully outraged that many people will reach such a conclusion because casual racists require constant reassurance that they're "good people" despite harboring profound racial prejudice with little to no self-examination and are constantly seeking to GASLIGHT folks into believing that they're the victims in order to feel better about being pieces of shit. Because unlike decent people who harbor racial prejudice and DO make a sincere to effort examine their thoughts and feelings, casual racists are only concerned with having freedom from the social consequences of being an ASS. They envision a return to a world where their bigoted behavior and racist microaggressions will go unchallenged and ignored, and they can continuously be propped up and regarded as "great" people with great minds no matter what they say or do.
Well, they're not. not really.
And I, as well as many others, refuse to entertain this DELUSION in which they're okay, and everyone else has the fucking problem.
LOL....Hit dogs can throw tantrums, cry "Fucking SJWs!", and toss around all the insults they want.
It matters not.
Smart, decent people are hip to the bullshit games these motherfuckers like to play and expect nothing less. And they're not going be goaded into shutting up.
It would appear that racist motherfuckers who don't like being called 'racist' are just going to have to learn to deal with that.