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I almost feel like there's a witch hunt going on in society.
Only against heterosexual, white, males. If Don Cheadle said this exact same thing about white people, sympathy would be extended to his apology, with an increase in sympathy inversely proportional to their degree of respectability (i.e. Offset, or Lil' Wayne or some such would almost be praised for a similar comment).
Granted I want to see both Don Cheadle and Liam Neeson in a lot more movies. Oh well, I hope Liam Neeson saved his money. He has been convicted by the Thought Police of Wrongthink, so...um... RIP Liam Neeson's future career.
Only against heterosexual, white, males. If Don Cheadle said this exact same thing about white people, sympathy would be extended to his apology, with an increase in sympathy inversely proportional to their degree of respectability (i.e. Offset, or Lil' Wayne or some such would almost be praised for a similar comment).
Granted I want to see both Don Cheadle and Liam Neeson in a lot more movies. Oh well, I hope Liam Neeson saved his money. He has been convicted by the Thought Police of Wrongthink, so...um... RIP Liam Neeson's future career.
Megan Kelly's career was ruined over a comment about blackface. She is a woman. This doesn't happen just to men. Perhaps it happens more to men, but there are examples amongst well known women.
Megan Kelly's career was ruined over a comment about blackface. She is a woman. This doesn't happen just to men. Perhaps it happens more to men, but there are examples amongst well known women.
I'll pony up. You're right. I should have replaced the first word "only" with "especially".
Also, in one of my earlier posts I referenced how Kevin Hart was criticized for his pro-straight preference for child raising (which gay people call anti-gay), and he wasn't expressing violent thoughts.
“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could,” another pause, “kill him.”
imagine if he said this
“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ‘pig’ (aka cop)would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could,” another pause, “kill him.”
He mentioned color and race, all hell broke loose. If he said Pig (aka cop), I can almost guarantee you he won't be in this trouble.
The bottom line is that he didn't do anything, and anger is not rational. He realized that he wasn't rational and he obviously had a good control of his impulse. His only "sin" is that he shouldn't have opened his mouth about his private thoughts. In today's world, it is almost like a career suicide.
I feel people no longer need a dialogue, they just need a reason to condemn somebody.
Don Lemon said that “the biggest terror threat in this country is white men.” (painting an entire group of people with one broad brush) He is still okay.
“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could,” another pause, “kill him.”
imagine if he said this
“I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ‘pig’ (aka cop)would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could,” another pause, “kill him.”
He mentioned color and race, all hell broke loose. If he said Pig (aka cop), I can almost guarantee you he won't be in this trouble.
The bottom line is that he didn't do anything, and anger is not rational. He realized that he wasn't rational and he obviously had a good control of his impulse. His only "sin" is that he shouldn't have opened his mouth about his private thoughts. In today's world, it is almost like a career suicide.
I feel people no longer need a dialogue, they just need a reason to condemn somebody.
Don Lemon said that “the biggest terror threat in this country is white men.” (painting an entire group of people with one broad brush) He is still okay.
a very good common sense post...and your right....there are good and bad people in every race....and people have to calm down and eat some fruit.
What people do not want to understand, this happened 40 years ago...he was explaining wanting revenge, b/c of his movie, which is about the same thing...
I think that Liam Neeson was really angry about a loved one being raped, and just had to blow off some steam here. He didn't actually murder or even assault anyone as I understand it, so I think he was just angry in the heat of the moment, and perhaps some people are being to quick to judge him, no?
It's like people are casting the first stones and think they are without sin... even though, we may very well get angry at a rapist and wanting to go look for them too, if in a similar situation where a loved one was raped? Lots of people have thought of getting revenge for being raped, it's normal. Since when are people full of such pure revenge-less thoughts after a rape now?
a very good common sense post...and your right....there are good and bad people in every race....and people have to calm down and eat some fruit.
What people do not want to understand, this happened 40 years ago...he was explaining wanting revenge, b/c of his movie, which is about the same thing...
He was trying to explain how even someone who is the man he is now--not prone to violence, not moved by bigotry--was once someone who was enthralled by such passions, and that such passions are possible within anyone if they are not controlled.
Forty-five years ago, a young man in his twenties, he was engulfed by the passions surrounding him. There were people like that at the same time in the US--people who were setting fire to cities, for instance.
Should we consider those angry young men as still dangerous and deadly, despite the fact that they have since worked through entire careers, raised families, and have grandchildren?
But I can, as can Neesan, look back over 45 years and say, "I was stupid as hell when I was in my twenties. I'm much wiser now."
If any man in his 60s can't say he's much wiser than he was in his 20s...it must means he's still as stupid and has learned nothing in 45 years.
Snowflakes are upset over an honest admission by Neeson.
However, Neeson should have darned well known that people were going to get upset in this hypersensitive day we live in, so it's on him. Seriously, he should have just kept his mouth shut, TMI. His statements served zero purpose.
That once we were young and thought bad thoughts and have since learned? I guess we all go through that. I remember being a gung ho midshipman, kill a commie for Ronnie, and in the submarine simulator, we thought nothing of sinking a Soviet hospital ship (we did, but it was by accident but we were ready to to it intentionally). Wounded or well, a dead Soviet is a dead Soviet.......
........until I learned that in doing such, you might kill your own troops as well, because POWs can be transported on hospital ships.
That he was getting into character? Well, us actors do what it is necessary to become that person. Playing mean killers is not something I usually do, as I can recall, for the stage, but.......
..........when it comes to getting into the mind of the enemy, yes, I might go that direction. Which comes to the third thing, the department of developing techniques and the devious way one thinks about things. Devious ways that are certainly not politically correct. Such as using porn to decoy responding security forces so one gets the first shots.
It's what I do.......it's what we do.
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