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Actor Liam Neeson has denied he is racist, after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.
Neeson has been facing a major racism storm since he made the comments in an interview, published by The Independent on Monday.
He said he walked the streets with a weapon around 40 years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Actor Liam Neeson has denied he is racist, after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.
Neeson has been facing a major racism storm since he made the comments in an interview, published by The Independent on Monday.
He said he walked the streets with a weapon around 40 years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.
To offset this, when 9-11 occurred, wouldn't you agree that most of the US was holding a bit of hatred for Muslims and wanting to attack any that they saw?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Actor Liam Neeson has denied he is racist, after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.
Neeson has been facing a major racism storm since he made the comments in an interview, published by The Independent on Monday.
He said he walked the streets with a weapon around 40 years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.
To offset this, when 9-11 occurred, wouldn't you agree that most of the US was holding a bit of hatred for Muslims and wanting to attack any that they saw?
How does other people being racist offset someone else being racist?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Actor Liam Neeson has denied he is racist, after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.
Neeson has been facing a major racism storm since he made the comments in an interview, published by The Independent on Monday.
He said he walked the streets with a weapon around 40 years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.
To offset this, when 9-11 occurred, wouldn't you agree that most of the US was holding a bit of hatred for Muslims and wanting to attack any that they saw?
How does other people being racist offset someone else being racist?
Seriously? How have you not realized that logic does not apply to @DustinB3403?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Actor Liam Neeson has denied he is racist, after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.
Neeson has been facing a major racism storm since he made the comments in an interview, published by The Independent on Monday.
He said he walked the streets with a weapon around 40 years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.
To offset this, when 9-11 occurred, wouldn't you agree that most of the US was holding a bit of hatred for Muslims and wanting to attack any that they saw?
How does other people being racist offset someone else being racist?
This doesn't have to be racist, just a general attitude of being pissed off because a family member of his was raped by someone.
The same conversation could be had of 9-11 where many Americans wanted to beat the crap out of any Muslim person they saw, because they were angry. It's not lumping all Muslims as terrorist.
It's just a general hate at the time. To classify this as racist would be comparable to saying anyone who had an unusual thoughts of attacking Muslims must be racists as well.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Actor Liam Neeson has denied he is racist, after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.
Neeson has been facing a major racism storm since he made the comments in an interview, published by The Independent on Monday.
He said he walked the streets with a weapon around 40 years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.
To offset this, when 9-11 occurred, wouldn't you agree that most of the US was holding a bit of hatred for Muslims and wanting to attack any that they saw?
How does other people being racist offset someone else being racist?
Seriously? How have you not realized that logic does not apply to @DustinB3403?
You clearly didn't read or comprehend my statement in any way shape or form.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Actor Liam Neeson has denied he is racist, after admitting he once set out to kill an innocent black man.
Neeson has been facing a major racism storm since he made the comments in an interview, published by The Independent on Monday.
He said he walked the streets with a weapon around 40 years ago, hoping to take out his anger after someone close to him was raped by a black man.
To offset this, when 9-11 occurred, wouldn't you agree that most of the US was holding a bit of hatred for Muslims and wanting to attack any that they saw?
How does other people being racist offset someone else being racist?
This doesn't have to be racist, just a general attitude of being pissed off because a family member of his was raped by someone.
Being pissed off doesn't make you target a specific race to murder someone innocent. That's unrelated. That he was pissed is fine and natural. That he decided it was his race that was at fault, rather than the individual, is what makes it racist.
He could have randomly picked other inappropriate elements, too. What if the rapist was from Chicago so he went to Chicago to murder random people that lived there? What if the rapist was short so he went out to murder short people? What if the rapist was blonde and he went out to murder a random blonde?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
The same conversation could be had of 9-11 where many Americans wanted to beat the crap out of any Muslim person they saw, because they were angry. It's not lumping all Muslims as terrorist.
Correct. And that was 100% evil and racist in every conceivable way. So you made our point completely.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Being pissed off doesn't make you target a specific race to murder someone innocent.
That is what the entire US went and did after 9-11!
And it certainly has continued.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
It's just a general hate at the time. To classify this as racist would be comparable to saying anyone who had an unusual thoughts of attacking Muslims must be racists as well.
Um DUH.
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"General hate" towards a race is RACISM by definition. That is exactly what it means.
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Um, how insanely obvious is it that that WAS racism of the worst sort?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Being pissed off doesn't make you target a specific race to murder someone innocent.
That is what the entire US went and did after 9-11!
And it certainly has continued.
Right, and no one is denying that many Americans are terrible racists. In no way does that justify or offset someone else being racist.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
That he decided it was his race that was at fault, rather than the individual, is what makes it racist.
The same logic was and is used today to classify Terrorist.
Oh you're Muslim, you must be a terrorist!
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
That he decided it was his race that was at fault, rather than the individual, is what makes it racist.
The same logic was and is used today to classify Terrorist.
Oh you're Muslim, you must be a terrorist!
Absolutely, racism remains, especially in government. I just spent an hour dealing with it in Texas.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
That he decided it was his race that was at fault, rather than the individual, is what makes it racist.
The same logic was and is used today to classify Terrorist.
Oh you're Muslim, you must be a terrorist!
Absolutely, racism remains, especially in government. I just spent an hour dealing with it in Texas.
oh dang, i thought Texas IS a predominantly racist state though. Hence why I try to stay away.
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He had thoughts of attacking and beating any person of color he came across. He was pissed, much like America was after 9-11. He didn't go and beat a person of color to death.
Having irrational thoughts during a time of turmoil is natural and he learned that his thought process was flawed and he's worked to correct it.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
He had thoughts of attacking and beating any person of color he came across. He was pissed, much like America was after 9-11. He didn't go and beat a person of color to death.
Having irrational thoughts during a time of turmoil is natural and he learned that his thought process was flawed and he's worked to correct it.
All racism is irrational. More importantly, he admitted to acting on those thoughts. It is the actions that make it more than just thoughts.
Now, he didn't just try to assault anyone. He was hoping to be attacked first, which is a good way to do it. Not like he was looking for a totally innocent person. But he made 4 or 5 attempts to retaliate against a race. That's action, not thoughts.
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People are allowed to have emotional reactions and thoughts during times of turmoil.
His action was walking around, hoping to get assaulted by a person of color and hoping to be able to use self-defence as a means to protect himself from the law. Which that is premeditated, absolutely. But he didn't go and beat a random bystander to death.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
People are allowed to have emotional reactions and thoughts during times of turmoil.
Sure, and if those actions are racist, they get exposed. It's not a crime to be racist, but it is still racist.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
His action was walking around, hoping to get assaulted by a person of color and hoping to be able to use self-defence as a means to protect himself from the law. Which that is premeditated, absolutely. But he didn't go and beat a random bystander to death.
It doesn't require murder to have done something racist. His thoughts and actions were against one race. That's what racism is.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
His action was walking around, hoping to get assaulted by a person of color and hoping to be able to use self-defence as a means to protect himself from the law. Which that is premeditated, absolutely. But he didn't go and beat a random bystander to death.
It doesn't require murder to have done something racist. His thoughts and actions were against one race. That's what racism is.
I'm not arguing what racism is. I'm arguing his actions and thought process at the time was influenced by turmoil in his life at the time.
To have and do (hope really in this case) that something occurs so you can react in an overzealous way does not make one a racist.
It makes them an emotional and unstable (at least for the time) person.
Has he continued down a road of racism and hated? Has be been discovered in a KKK outfit or blackface or continued down a path of hating people of color?
