Do you think if it had been a white person he would have gone out looking to kill any white person who started something?
What I want to know is how all these folks know from personal experience that trying to lynch folks after trauma is an easily-forgivable reaction.
I would think that's pretty normal to want revenge on someone who wronged you. Wanting to kill random people isn't though.
I think as I read these threads, the disconnect that I'm having is that i'm starting to believe that the average person on ERA innately thinks better of people. They expect more. At least they act like they do.
In what world is a "quiet racist" someone who prowled streets looking for black people to kill?
Well the black guy actually could have had one eye but Liam didn't require that kind of granular information.
Don't worry about it too much. He used the word when describing how people might not use that word as much anymore (unlike at the time when the movie took place), but that doesn't mean the hateful ideology behind it has disappeared. People "know" better not to use it, even when they're racist to their core. https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/viggo-mortensen-n-word-green-book-statement-1202019747/
It was posted a few pages back:
It's okay, he forgave all black people after a week of hoping to kill someone. He's an understanding guy.
There's no evidence he changed at all so you can take the parenthetical out.
He is a white man and the focus of his hatred was/is black people, of course people here are going to make excuse and defend him.
I'm rationalizing it from my own point of view where because racism isn't as flagrantly prevalent where I grow up I can understand why this wasn't the focus of his thought process. I do agree that the way he drops it in as a throwaway comment is problematic and he should address it. I also agree that the first question being "what colour was he" is a bizarre first response even a bizarre thing to remember about the whole thing without there being some deep rooted racism.
That you grew up somewhere without flagarrant racism. That's a pretty damn hard feat.
Yet if we claim disappointment in white moderates for fucking around with this story then we're the problem.
But the key thing here is that he didn't. Now whether it was from lack of opportunity, lack of nerve, or a swelling of humanity and good sense, we'll never know. I don't purport to know. My default attitude on people like him is that he thought some kind of way, came into his base instincts out of grief, began to act in a way that I expect of people harboring racism, and didn't follow through. Thank God. I'm sure that he has had PLENTY of opportunities over the years to be a dick to black folk. My point is that, at least so far, nobody has come forward with anything other than he's a swell guy. By 'quiet racist' I mean that in the past decade, if he still has racist thoughts, he hasn't expressed them. Could he have said more? Sure. A person more in touch with his feelings, or who has spent any considerable amount of time thinking about it more than just a pulse of anger, might've reflected on this differently. Personally, that's my definition of White Privilege: He doesn't have to. Like, in my mind, that's the actual definition: the privilege of not having to consider anybody else's opinion, experience, or perspective other than your own. Not hate. Indifference.
There was racism but when I read about America it doesn't seem near as bad. I am from Scotland and I literally never saw someone of African origin until I went to uni at the age of 18. There was racism against people from India and Pakistan but generally sectarianism is a much bigger issue than racism. It's hate, it's just different hate.
The key isn't that he didn't, at this time Northern island had a less than 1% black population and he staked out for a week. This dude plain didn't find anyone.
I'll be sure to mail Neeson some cookies for realizing revenge is bad.
