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These days we're encouraged to share our deepest feelings and as soon as we do we're demonised by people trying to validate their high moral virtue, as if they've never had any shameful feelings or urges.
Or of course it may be all “any publicity is good publicity” or La La Land celebrity bullshit.
Also, going out armed intending to kill a random innocent person for several weeks is not normal behaviour.
Strikes me he is so obsessed by sharing his 'complex troubled personality' that he has no concept of reality.
Terrible thing to have done. Bizarre thing to share with the media.
Yes it does matter. Wanting revenge on the person who did it is understandable but the object of the hatred is one person. Saying you want revenge on any black man is objectifying a whole race, all of whom, except one man, had nothing to do with the crime.
“I did something I’m not proud of, at a time when my mind probably wasn’t right due to a traumatic event in the life of someone close to me, but no-one got hurt and I soon realised I was wrong. I’m ashamed of how I behaved.
“But it turns out I should have kept my big mouth shut, because stories about people realising they were behaving in a terrible way are clearly not something the public is ready for.
“It seems no-one is interested in the ‘realised I was wrong’ bit, and more in the ‘went around angrily looking for revenge’ bit.“
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Trick is to use the awareness of it against itself. We have choice.
Basically that's what Neeson was saying. Brave step I think.
Thanks to @heavyrocker mind reading skills for explaining why I posted something
I'm going to out myself in about 25 years and destroy my career
(He was also using this powerful personal anecdote to publicise his latest geriatric-tough-guy action movie, which rather trivialises it.)
Unfortunately he completely obscured his own point by clumsily talking about the race of the attacker in such a way that that's become the main focus of attention. If he'd chosen his words a little more carefully it might not have blown up in this way. Perhaps he did actually intend race to be part of the discussion - which seems to be what he's saying in the aftermath - but he was naive if he didn't realise that was asking for trouble. Big trouble.
In the current climate, I do understand some of the reaction. What is utterly stupid is the way some commentators ignore half of what he said - or never listened to it in the first place - and want to write him off as an evil racist who should never work again. I've never heard of the Guardian's Gary Younge before, but this is hysterical nonsense:
(That's a single quote from a longer article, so perhaps I'm being unfair. I've read it, and I'm still not sure.)
Can no one ever make a mistake and learn from it, or be forgiven for it? Is it impossible for anyone to change? There's no sense of perspective. Liam Neeson makes a stupid mistake 40 years ago. Mary Poppins puts soot on her face. And apparently that's enough to lump them in with Nick Griffin and Tommy Robinson. If any controversial comment is enough to end someone's career, then discussion ends and people become more entrenched in their own views, right or wrong.