Liam Neeson: Us and them. Last night's conversation between Joe Rogan and Sam Harris explores this topic. Sam's comments about Liam Neeson are important for all of us.
As are their comments about Mike Tyson.
"Our tribe is stronger than yours is Our tribe is stronger than yours."
This is why religion can be so evil. Fuck us up from an early age.
The point we should be focusing on is the fact that Liam Neeson is now apallled at how racist he was at that time. He is not thinking the same way now as he did then and I think we should give him credit for coming out and saying so. Whether or not he was a product of his time and upbringing is worth taking into account too, remembering it isn’t so long ago...just forty or so years, that there were signs in the windows of Guest Houses and small Hotels in the U.K. which said “No Blacks, Irish or Dogs”. We had TV shows which openly used the “N” word, and even won awards for their comedy! Liam Neeson was just being honest about how he felt enraged enough to go looking for a random black man to murder, it was a form of temporary insanity, and completely irrational. He knows that and acknowledges it, why are we acting like he is still the worst kind of racist which he patently isn’t. There was a young black female panellist on BBC’s Question Time last Thursday and she said she welcomed his honesty as it has opened up a debate on how racist Britain actuallly was at the time when this incident happened, and how much we have changed for the better.
He was appalled at how mental he went. As Harris said, it would not have mattered what the group was. Liam was out to do harm. it was not about racism. It was about how his friend was harmed.
It is really weird when people adopt the opinion of their tribe and then point at others and say they’re being tribalists.
Liam admitted to wanting to kill a random person for sharing the race of a bad person. That’s racist and sick. I’ve been to two war zones and never thought that way. It’s not normal and I don’t get why people are flocking to defend something so deranged.
It wasn't racist. It was circumstantial... If his friend would have been attacked by an IRA member he would have been looking for an IRA member.
Whomsoever has not said, thought or done something reprehensible in their past, please stand up now so that we can all take lessons.
But, as Ryan Reynolds notes in Deadpool, Liam Neeson let his family get kidnapped like three times now, he's a horrible father. Just a bad example all around.
Really LOL Thank you. Thank you.
I wondered why Liam Neeson came out with the story about wanting to kill a black guy because a friend had been raped by an unknown black guy. Could it be because being raised a Roman catholic he has this inherent guilt feeling installed almost from birth. He said he had already confessed this to a priest. The reaction has been overwhelmingly negative and could even wreck his career.
@Jacar Absolutely! Totally agree. Unfortunately the recognition of that doesnt fuel the outrage that much of society seem to crave at the current time.
@Geoffrey51 I'm wondering when people will learn that they don't have to share everything. Sometimes, it's better to just keep things to ourselves. There are plenty of things I don't even tell my therapist, ffs. Because I just don't think she needs to know the details of my fantasy life or every thought in my head. Or every thought about my fantasy life.
@Jacar Well. that's not what the general consensus is.
@Moravian Quite agree. It’s okay not to share everything. What’s in one’s head can stay in one’s head!