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Today in Stuff I Kind Of Thought We Collectively Figured Out Fifty Years Ago: White racist men being sexually attracted to black women isn't a contradiction, or even unusual.
Whether Liam Neeson is a racist isn't a question that can't be answered by recourse to who he has sex with in real life, much less who he makes out with on screen for money.
(By "collectively," I'm referring to the moment when I would have said something like a public consensus emerged, not the moment when people who were actually paying attention figured it out.)
As a datapoint, Lenny Bruce was telling "lust trumps racism" jokes in the early 1960s, but those jokes read as obviously stupid to not-particularly-woke-teen-me by the early 1980s.
