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Oh, but, perhaps you've never done anything wrong in your early life that your sorry for? I know I have....
I have. I didn't crow about it to the whole world at the time and I wouldn't do so now. If I got over it and I saw the error of my ways, then I no longer do whatever it is, which should be enough without me running out seeking credit for getting over it and seeing the error of my ways.
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Originally Posted by MPowering1
Friends of mine lost their son in a freak accident. His mom stayed in bed for a month. Does that sound like healthy behavior to you?
Nope. But, I'm also not condoning it or trying to explain it away.
I read what Liam Neeson had to say carefully. It was a brutally frank admission for sure. He was admitting how a desire for revenge can overtake rationality.
Neeson would have been about 16 years old, when the so called 'troubles' began in northern Ireland. He would have grown up in a small, enclosed society driven by thoughts of revenge. Killing for nothing more than revenge of previous killings would have been all around him at that time.
The Irish are vengeful people, and can be violent. They obsess, and brood on things that happened hundreds of years ago. I kid you not, I know.
Those years growing up would have marked Neeson. But he is an intelligent man, who left all that behind, and left that small, insular society, and went out into the world. But I have no doubt he would have had some violent encounters in his youth. He is a very imposing guy, 6' 4" tall.
He says he went out not to just pick out some random black man to attack. He went out, hoping some random black man would attack him, so he could take his anger out on that man in particular. That doesn't make it right, but his desire for revenge overtook rational thought.
He is not a third generation Irish American, marching on St. Patrick's Day. He is a product of his upbringing, and what he did and saw many decades ago.
During an interview, he revealed something dark within him, which he knew was wrong, and he regretted. I admire his honesty, but he may come to realise he should have kept it to himself.
brutally honest n very well said. thank you, repped you. there is no other logical way to look at this issue.
I think he's toast. Events have already been canceled, and some are calling for him to be digitally removed from scenes in MIB. For crying out loud, he said he went out looking for trouble as an excuse to kill.
Here's an article by the reporter who interviewed him for the original piece where the sheet hit the fan. She as much as says that he volunteered that troublesome story, then it appears that he threatened her if she included it.
The difference is, in my opinion, is that Jada Pinkett Smith did not pick up a weapon and go looking for blonde white girls to batter; nor did your acquaintance pick up a baseball bat and go out hoping to find black men to "kill". I don't see how anyone could fault either lady for their feelings, but they did not take any active steps to go out and harm people who shared skin color/hair color with those those who wronged them.
And really, neither did Liam Neeson. He had bad thoughts. He was a young man, born in a violent revenge culture. He didn’t act on it, and he’s grown from it. Young angry men do things that I would never think to do. I remember when my dad died and wondered how this was going to affect my youngest brother, only 20 at the time (I was in my mid-30s). My older brother-in-law told me he would probably be very angry at the world because that’s how young men react to grief. He was a medical doctor so knew what he was talking about. Sure enough, my brother was very angry at the world, got in fights, etc. Call it toxic masculinity if you want. It happens.
Liam Neeson will be fine. Frankly I appreciate his honesty and candor about how he felt 40 years ago.
Nothing to see here folks. Let's move it along.
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