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In what way is saying "I wanted an excuse to kill any 'black bastard' I saw because my friend was raped." NOT racist?
Are you smacking your head because you just realized you made up a statement, threw quotes around it and then attributed it to someone that didn't say that?
When experiencing a traumatic event first-hand or hearing about it second-hand, the reaction can bring out words/actions that a person would normally say/do. It is hard to be rational and composed when hearing that a close friend has been raped. The fact he admitted to it being wrong and regretting and not going out and murdering/severely hurting someone not involved in the original crime is something I see as commendable.
Now, in that situation and for that week, I do agree he had a racist mindset and that was cowardly wanting to take his anger out on an uninvolved party. I see such a situation as "temporary" or "situational" racism.
That's kinda how I see it. I don't know about the whole racism thing, people can be pretty tribal wanting to kick the butt of <insert ethnicity here> but regardless it was wrong. If we knew how he felt\reacted differently in cases of another race then that would clarify.
Yeah, some dude named Mathguy wrote back in post #8 something to that effect.
I'm merely trying to help people understand that what he was saying wasn't that he was just looking for the first black person.
Yes, I had read your post where you differentiated between crossing him as in a random person in his path vs crossing him as in messing with him. His statement still stinks. Of course he’d fight back with ANYONE that crossed (provoked, attacked, messes with, etc) him—that would be self defense. So why the need to specify a black bastard?
I just don't understand his thought process. I see being super upset and possibly having to hold yourself back from doing something illegal if he crossed the actual person who violated his friend; but I'm not understanding why he was looking to target any innocent black person (i.e the whole race). If she had told him that it was a white person who did it, would he have been ready to throw down on the next white person he could find to cross him? I didn't read the interview in-depth, but I don't know that he explained that. It seems what he was really trying to convey was that he had some deep-seated hatred for blacks, and he almost used the unfortunate situation as an excuse to act out on that.
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.
Definitely TMI. And what was the point in saying that, anyway, since he doesn't feel that way now?
Who does he think he is, Spike Lee?...Yeah, Spike Lee, who admits to being furious when he sees a black man with a white woman, and admits to looking daggers at them on the street.
In what way is saying "I wanted an excuse to kill any 'black bastard' I saw because my friend was raped." NOT racist?
Yes. Liam Neeson was stupid for being so honest about his thoughts. But he evolved from that situation. He was mad that his friend was raped and so the focus of his anger was the black man that raped her. Over time, his initial anger faded. And of the several weeks in wandered NYC for a black man to take his anger out on, he never found one who was an appropriate target. He obviously didn't want to beat on most black men, he was looking for one that looked like the kind of man that could rape a woman. So it seems to me, that during those weeks, the black men he saw looked like good men, and not the type to assault a woman.
Therefore, I don't consider Liam Neeson to be racist. He was only frustrated and angry that one of his close female friends was raped, and that man happened to be black. It was a very tribal instinct. And his initial reaction was basically... "an eye for an eye" one.
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