Will His Career Recover?

Everyone I've heard, read and spoken to agrees that what Neeson confessed to a journalist regarding his desire to take revenge against random black men for a relative's rape, was extremely ill-advised. However, it presumably took place many years, even decades ago, and Neeson is a man who has experienced his own share of tragedies in life. Moreover, I hope and doubt this mindset does not represent the man that Neeson is today (even if he should have been way more thoughtful and cultural-politically conscious before making such a disturbing admission).

My fear however is that we are currently living in a very unforgiving, puritanical, ultra-PC era in which the slightest transgression will be punished, particularly by those groups in society that have historically been oppressed and marginalised, and, quite understandably, want to now assert some of that growing cultural power.

This is not a defence for Neeson's mindset, far less his foolish admission (surely there were better ways he could have expressed his experience of vengeful/violent thoughts), but it is an acknowledgment that people are imperfect, including movie stars, and, one suspects, those imperfections are, sadly, more prevalent in society than not.