So actor Liam Neeson is under fire online because of perceived "racist" comments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47133868
The gist of it?
When Liam was younger, he found out a friend was raped. He asked her for details about the identity of the rapist. He asked her what race he was, to which she said black.
In his anger, he proceeds to go out into the streets, particularly black populated areas, armed trying to fight someone that would come up to his face. Apparently he did this 4 or 5 times over the course of a week and half.
Ensue online social media witch hunt/crusade.
I first came across this 20 mins ago due to a fb page of someone else, who posted a link to a different article and interview:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...hIXqo2azxUIUyE
The interviewed man in the above comes to Liam's defense. However, what bugs me in his remarks is the following:
"This is what society has wrongly shown him, this is what the media has wrongly portrayed to him so in that moment - he said for a week - he was going around looking to 'kill a black person, or a black' and he did that in quotation marks."
Unless I missed it in Liam's comments or something, where did this man take this idea from? Where did he get the notion that Liam wanted to get jumped by a black person because he was socially ingrained to think black people were all rapists and violent individuals? Liam simply did so because that was one of two main identifiers about the alleged rapist.
What bugged me even further is how some people are saying that this speaks to our racist and patriarchal societies that are supported by institutions, politicians and what not. Not only that, but that Neeson is the mixture of racism, misogyny, white supremacy that underpins most of our societies. No joke, I've seen this posted and people agreeing to it.
And because I know of the risk someone will accuse me or others of being easily outraged, that's fair, you could say that. Identity politics related subjects and controversies interest me. The part that gets my blood boiling is the apparent smugness of one said, in that, they're so sure of their moral superiority grounded on their siding with a seemingly victimized person/group, that they seem absolutely certain there is no criticism to be made of their position.
@Josuke , yes man I know there's an element of racism to this thread which will promt you to make a comment exactly about that and report the thread.