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Post by cato on Feb 6, 2019 14:30:45 GMT
Liam Neeson is the latest liberal to get into hot water with the PC thought police. Neeson is an an actor I admire but is firmly signed up to left wing secular thought. He voiced a sinister repeal video last year which ironically , if memory serves me right, involved Graham Lenihan who recently got mugged by the trans community.
Neeson bizarrely confessed in a tv interview to wanting to beat up or kill a black man after a friend was raped many years ago. A priest helped him overcome his rage. Many people have probably entertained similar fantasies but don't choose to make them public. It was a silly thing to admit but now he is having to grovel in case his career goes up in smoke.
Race and group identity are now the fashionable badges of belonging. Perhaps Hitler really did win the war of ideas in the long run?
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Feb 6, 2019 14:55:57 GMT
Liam Neeson is the latest liberal to get into hot water with the PC thought police. Neeson is an an actor I admire but is firmly signed up to left wing secular thought. He voiced a sinister repeal video last year which ironically , if memory serves me right, involved Graham Lenihan who recently got mugged by the trans community. Neeson bizarrely confessed in a tv interview to wanting to beat up or kill a black man after a friend was raped many years ago. A priest helped him overcome his rage. Many people have probably entertained similar fantasies but don't choose to make them public. It was a silly thing to admit but now he is having to grovel in case his career goes up in smoke. Race and group identity are now the fashionable badges of belonging. Perhaps Hitler really did win the war of ideas in the long run? I have developed an interest in The Fireside Poets, a group of American poets including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who were enormously popular in their day. I looked for articles about them online, and had printed one out to read over my lunch. As soon as I came to a reference to their "white faces", I threw it in the bin. I don't care what colour anybody's skin is and I find the modern fixation with it tiresome. |
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Post by cato on Feb 6, 2019 17:59:53 GMT
Neeson also referred to his rage "as an attempt to show honour in a medieval fashion". Perhaps primeval might be a more accurate label but as we know the church dominated the middle ages so maybe his original term was deliberately chosen.
I expect a deafening barrage of abuse will be directed at Neeson from the Medievalist community.
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Post by servantofthechief on Feb 6, 2019 18:17:50 GMT
I dont know what Blood and Soil has to do with Neeson's rage, seems more like he wanted to beat up or kill the man who raped his friend who just happened to be black and didn't blame the race itself. In either case the fact he sought out a priest to overcome his rage is commendable. (even if his involvement in the Repeal campaign is not) but as to the use of group identity as a bludgeoning tool, lets not be naive here. Group identities have always mattered, to what extent and what context is always worth arguing about but they never didn't matter, thinking of such is one of the reasons we Europeans are so damn pliant when it comes to letting in hordes of foreigners into the continent and so slow to act in our own group interests because of the scars of WWII. We try to correct one evil by embracing another evil, from idolizing our races, which is a gift of God, to despising them in spite of their being a gift from God. But the left doesn't care either way, it never has, its just nowadays communists find it more useful than appealing to the working class, who are stubbornly nationalistic at times, as a means of breaking down social order and thereby bringing froth their damned revolution. Emphasis on damned.
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Post by cato on Feb 6, 2019 19:31:27 GMT
I dont know what Blood and Soil has to do with Neeson's rage, seems more like he wanted to beat up or kill the man who raped his friend who just happened to be black and didn't blame the race itself. In either case the fact he sought out a priest to overcome his rage is commendable. (even if his involvement in the Repeal campaign is not) but as to the use of group identity as a bludgeoning tool, lets not be naive here. Group identities have always mattered, to what extent and what context is always worth arguing about but they never didn't matter, thinking of such is one of the reasons we Europeans are so damn pliant when it comes to letting in hordes of foreigners into the continent and so slow to act in our own group interests because of the scars of WWII. We try to correct one evil by embracing another evil, from idolizing our races, which is a gift of God, to despising them in spite of their being a gift from God. But the left doesn't care either way, it never has, its just nowadays communists find it more useful than appealing to the working class, who are stubbornly nationalistic at times, as a means of breaking down social order and thereby bringing froth their damned revolution. Emphasis on damned. Blood and Soil was a reference to Blut und Boden and the racist world view which was rightly discredited in the ashes of Berlin 1945. Or rather it was discredited until the revival of racist thinking in recent decades mainly by the hard left. Leftist racism is much more widespread than the right wing version. Both are equally vile. Liam Neeson's strange remarks have a rather obvious racial resonance. |
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Post by cato on Feb 7, 2019 14:24:30 GMT
Something just occured to me that crossed my mind when I heard about the Neeson rage fantasy. He may have confessed it to the priest he mentioned.
Sacramental Confession is a much neglected and maligned practice but we rarely hear how beneficial it can be specifically in preventing serious crime and evil.
Neeson was able to reveal his soul in strict confidence and receive solid advice which helped him to overcome murderous wrath. Confession is confidential to protect us when we reveal our inner darkest selves. Unfortunately if we repeat the confession to a media reporter we will get less sympathy, no advice and may indeed end up as a social outcast.
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Post by servantofthechief on Feb 7, 2019 17:01:04 GMT
Something just occured to me that crossed my mind when I heard about the Neeson rage fantasy. He may have confessed it to the priest he mentioned. Sacramental Confession is a much neglected and maligned practice but we rarely hear how beneficial it can be specifically in preventing serious crime and evil. Neeson was able to reveal his soul in strict confidence and receive solid advice which helped him to overcome murderous wrath. Confession is confidential to protect us when we reveal our inner darkest selves. Unfortunately if we repeat the confession to a media reporter we will get less sympathy, no advice and may indeed end up as a social outcast. This is precisely why a Catholic is under absolutely no obligation to repeat what he has confessed in the Sacrament of Confession. We all have a right to a good name. |
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