Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson and friend.

Long, long ago, I posted something on here about morality and luck. You wouldn't think luck played any part in moral judgement, but look at the case of Liam Neeson who spent several days actively looking for Black men to murder with a metal pipe he carried for that purpose. It was by sheer chance he didn't find any. Now he's appeared on Good Morning America telling his uplifting story about how he decided that racist murder wasn't such a good idea after all.

He did this for a week, he said, after a friend was raped. She didn't know who raped her, so he asked what color he was, racist in itself, and she said he was Black.

Whites seem to have an easier time with this than Blacks although there are a couple of Blacks defending him. He confessed to it out of the blue. No one could have known about it otherwise. I'm sure he expected a different response.

There are reformed neo-Nazis who have been welcomed back to the human race, but I don't know if they confessed to actually setting out to kill people.

Mark Walhberg was a violent racist who targeted Black children and was charged with attempted murder against a Vietnamese.

According to Wikipedia:

In June 1986, Wahlberg and three friends chased after three black children while yelling "Kill the nigger, kill the nigger" and throwing rocks at them.[13] The next day, Wahlberg and others followed a group of schoolchildren taking a field trip on a beach, yelled racial epithets at them, threw rocks at them and "summoned other white males who joined" in the harassment.[13] In August 1986, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for violating the civil rights of his victims, and the case was later settled the next month.[14][15][16] 

In April 1988, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man named Thanh Lam on the street and, using a large wooden stick, struck him in the head until he was knocked unconscious while calling him a "Vietnam fucking shit". That same day, Wahlberg also attacked a second Vietnamese man named Hoa "Johnny" Trinh, punching him in the eye without provocation. According to court documents regarding these crimes, when Wahlberg was arrested later that night and returned to the scene of the first assault, he stated to police officers: "You don't have to let him identify me, I'll tell you now that's the mother-fucker whose head I split open."[17] Investigators also noted that Wahlberg "made numerous unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks'".[18][19]

It's a shame Wahlberg wasn't shot and left to die in the gutter. He demanded a pardon a few years ago, but there was no basis for him getting one except that he's a movie star. He never even admitted that his crimes were racist. If it hasn't wrecked his career, it should. I'm sure he's not as horrible as he was, but that's an effect of aging more than anything else.

I may have missed something, but I didn't know either of these guys were ever that great.

Liam Neeson.