Mark Wahlberg's hate crimes history resurfaces after Black Lives Matter post

[Baerboxer]

58 minutes ago, Logosone said:

More like hired muscle, cause you know guys like Wahlberg like to kick a guy in the face when he's lying down and being held down firmly by a 6 foot 4 associate.

 

They always take on anyone....provided they have back-up from 3 other guys.

 

Can you provide evidence of where that has happened, where Mr. Wahlberg has behaved as you state?

 

Or just making it up?

[spidermike007]

16 hours ago, dddave said:

The Wahlberg's grew up in Dorchester, Mass., a very tough, working class neighborhood of Boston during the very racially polarized 1970's/80's.  Involuntary school busing as part of a court ordered desegregation plan was causing huge social unrest and riots around schools were a daily event.

It was a very racially charged time and working class neighborhoods were seething with resentment as their elementary school aged kids were being forced to attend schools in other parts of the city, sometimes many miles away.  Local politicians fanned the flames and deep racism  was commonplace.

 

The mark of a mature adult is the ability to overcome such feelings learned young and grow.  I think Mark Wahlberg has done that and should not be viewed as a racist for things said in a different era.

The most sensible post on this thread, so far. Thank you. Yes, we are all capable of growth. A lot has changed for him since those days. He is a very successful man now, and has worked with many people of color, and it is likely his ignorant attitudes of his youth have been transformed into a more mature and less hateful world view.

 

If only that applied to many of our leaders!

[Baerboxer]

4 hours ago, wensiensheng said:

I thought the whole idea of the current protests was to cause people to reflect on their previous bad behaviour and have them change for the better individually, thereby becoming themselves part of a movement for institutional change.

 

wahlberg has already admitted to doing wrong in his early years and as far as I can see, has indeed changed. Why then castigate him? He is a role model for what needs to happen with a lot of other people. Admission of intolerant acts and attitudes, coupled with change for the better.

 

Muhammad Ali, one of my heroes, once said something along the lines " race hate is wrong. Doesn't matter if it's white people or black people doing the hating; it's simply wrong".

 

He was a wise man, as well as one of the GOAT boxers.

 

But forgiving and encouraging people to learn and move on isn't politically correct. They must be denounced and persecuted.

[Baerboxer]

17 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

You sure are doing a good job of defending the racists with your posts here.

 

So your're a politically correct person whose views and behavior have always been politically correct; never changed as always perfect; never wrong; and has an amazing ability to present false equivalence and sophistry as actual logic.

 

Well, bully for you,

Edited June 9, 2020 by Baerboxer

[digger70]

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Mark Wahlberg's hate crimes history resurfaces after Black Lives Matter post

Give it a break, if the past from everyones youth came back in the limelight the Whole world would be Chaos from Hate and Protesters.

[Logosone]

42 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Can you provide evidence of where that has happened, where Mr. Wahlberg has behaved as you state?

 

Or just making it up?

Happy to:

 

"In August 1992, Wahlberg fractured the jaw of his neighbor, Robert Crehan, in an attack. Court documents state that in 1992, Wahlberg "without provocation or cause, viciously and repeatedly kicked" Crehan in the face while another man, Derek McCall, held the victim on the ground."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wahlberg

[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

So your're a politically correct person whose views and behavior have always been politically correct; never changed as always perfect; never wrong; and has an amazing ability to present false equivalence and sophistry as actual logic.

 

Well, bully for you,

No, just not a racist

[IAMHERE]

Mark Wahlberg blinded a Vietnamese man for being Vietnamese; hope Mark has helped that Vietnamese man out now that Mark has more money than he can use.

[Benmart]

The mob knows no color or ethnicity. Old scores must be settled, "blood" must be spilled (not real blood mind you, hence the "..."). No amount of time nor any act of contrition will satisfy those whose ultimate goal is vegence for an injury or insult they may never have been personally involved in.

 

This man is just the opening chapter in a wider witch hunt to resurrect past acts of youth, immaturity, possibly socially accepted behavior when they occurred.

 

This is not a justification of his behavior, but if every person were taken to task for a past behavior, based on present norms, the courts and jails would be full, and the judges would be the all mighty zealots passing down the sentences. As the pendulum swings back, those judges in turn would be judged themselves as has been proven in the history of this sometimes chaotic planet.

[berybert]

Life is amazing, you can be born a man and live life as a woman and expect people to never mention you were once a man as it might upset your feelings.

But one a racist always a racist.

Somethings you just cant change. Or people wouldnt let you.