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I'm guessing most people have heard this story already.
But some simple cliffs:
Does anyone not see the harm in all of this? This isn't a case where something damning was discovered about someones past (e.g. finding a picture of you dressed as black-face in an old yearbook). This was a case where the person brought it up themselves to reflect on how stupid they were as a kid and how much they have learned from their past stupidity.
It just seems like taking a step backwards instead of forward when you shun people for something like this. This is a person that came forward to condemn himself.
Background Info + Latest:
But some simple cliffs:
- Liam does an interview in which he reflects on a racist time in his young past where one of his female friends was raped by a black man. He had fits of anger and rage over the ordeal to the point of hoping that a black man would start a fight with him because he wanted to kill one.
- He reflects back and goes into how it was incredibly wrong and stupid of him
- Backlash ensues - even though the entire point of him bringing it up was to explain how he is now "woke" and he was basically bringing it up to admit that what he was thinking was stupid
- Various shows/films are cancelled to spite this
- Social Justice Warrior Political Correctness wins again.
Does anyone not see the harm in all of this? This isn't a case where something damning was discovered about someones past (e.g. finding a picture of you dressed as black-face in an old yearbook). This was a case where the person brought it up themselves to reflect on how stupid they were as a kid and how much they have learned from their past stupidity.
It just seems like taking a step backwards instead of forward when you shun people for something like this. This is a person that came forward to condemn himself.
Background Info + Latest:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The New York celebrity red carpet event on Tuesday for actor Liam Neeson’s new film “Cold Pursuit” has been canceled in the wake of an interview in which Neeson said he wanted to kill a black man in response to the rape of a friend who said her attacker was black.
that a red carpet, where movie stars pose for photos and speak with reporters, would be inappropriate.
The U.S. premiere for the movie, in which Neeson plays a man seeking revenge for his son’s killers, will still go ahead on Tuesday.
Responding to the backlash his comments had drawn, the 66-year-old Irish star told the U.S. television network ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday that “I’m not a racist.”
Neeson said he had learned that society needed to have a larger discussion to end racism and bigotry.
On Monday, Neeson told the British newspaper The Independent that he related to characters in his movies such as “Taken” who seek revenge when someone close to them is hurt. He said a female friend told him decades ago that she had been raped by a man who was black.
Neeson told the newspaper he had spent “maybe a week” walking near pubs with a heavy stick and “hoping some ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could ... kill him.”
The Independent said Neeson put air quotes around the term “black bastard.” The newspaper posted audio from the interview on its website.
On Tuesday, Neeson told “GMA” that he had felt a “primal urge to lash out” at the time.
“I went out deliberately into black areas in the city, looking to be set upon,” he said. “It shocked me and it hurt me ... I did seek help, I went to a priest.”
Neeson said no violence occurred. He said he would have been looking for a white man if his friend had identified her attacker as white.
“It was horrible, horrible when I think back, that I did that,” Neeson said on “GMA. “It’s awful, but I did learn a lesson from it.”