RE: Liam Neeson: Rape, Revenge, and Race Relations
February 14, 2019 at 5:38 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2019 at 5:38 pm by GrandizerII.)
(February 14, 2019 at 5:17 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I can't hear your voice in text, of course, but I'd imagine it's up to about level 11 on the screechometer. It's like you read all the things I said about nitwit PC internet trolls, and chose to manifest them all in a single post.
Here's what it really is-- America is too rich, and life is too easy. If a movie actor making a comment about his feelings and ideas at a moment 40 years ago (and which he didn't act on) can tilt you into this level of frothing hysteria, either you enjoy the experience of frothing hysteria, or you have too little to do in RL.
The sad part is you probably can't see how this response of yours towards Thena could be seen as sexist (and racist as well depending on what you know about her).
Quote:(February 14, 2019 at 6:33 am)Grandizer Wrote: He didn't mention the word "race" or "racism" at all in the initial interview. His story had little to do with race and more to do with revenge, which is supposedly the focus of the movie he was promoting. There were better ways he could've made his message clear on the idea of revenge without describing to the interviewer how murderously racist he was being at the time. I mean, did he really have to say he asked his friend what color the person's skin was? At the same time, he didn't even say that the racist aspect was wrong, only that the need for revenge was wrong.
I don't know what to say. It's like people don't speak English any more, or don't want to understand what people are saying.
The guy mentioned that he generalized his rage at one black person to all black people. And then that he was disturbed by his feelings-- in other words, that generalizing anger toward an individual wrongdoer to a race upset him: he didn't like where his emotions had taken him, and he wasn't talking about Disneyland.
Yeah, you still don't get it. He was disturbed by the need for revenge by raging on random people. Not once in the initial interview did he show that he was bothered by the racist aspect of it. In fact, he didn't seem to realize that racist aspect until people made that clear to him after the interview. And that's when he tried to rectify that in the clarification interview, and failed to do so.
