Leader of country caught up in blackface controversy.

Is there something wrong with putting black on your face? Like what's racsist about that? I thought racsim was thinking your particular race is superior to another? Or do I need to be educated on the history of ...... dden den den dennn.. BLACKFACE!!!!! In a historical context of course.
What a load of boll**ks.
The sooner we forget about racsim the quicker it'll go away.

Zorya wrote: »

Well a couple of decades ago this would not be considered weird because people were not as twistedly obsessed with race and identity as they seem to be now - ìt was either innocent craic or gauche silliness. People somehow did not notice the neighbourhood Nazis and racists that seem to mushroom in every crevice nowadays. But with a pain in the arse sanctimonious vain witless pompous preacher like Trudeau...heh, couldnt happen to a better gobshyte. A few days squirming will do him good.

Good post. The hypocrisy of people like Trudeau gets a light shone on it in situations like this.

If this were one of his opponents running for office who was shown to have worn blackface, he’d have been the first to condemn them.

Your Face wrote: »

All liberals are closet racists.

You’re right. I fücking hate closets. Send them home to Ikea or wherever they come from.

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No idea - my daughter wanted to be Moana one Halloween of late. Being possibly one of the palest skin girls in Ireland she happily used things to make her go down 1000 shades of brown to something akin to the film. The world did not end and not a single person of any skin colour protested or batted an eye lid.

Mumble mumble cultural appropriation mumble mumble!

Its one of those things that SJW's will label anyone partaking in as at the very least culturally insensitive and at worst a white slave owning devil...

Surely common sense would dictate that for the act to be racist that the person in blackface, has to at the very least have racism or aggression towards another race as part of the animus for their act?

The race to label many as racist for blacking up, would likely lead to 90% of Irish people who did Halloween anytime before 2000 as plantation owners!
What with the national penchant for bin bags and shoe polish!

There are certainly instances and issues where blackface is clearly wrong and deliberately intended to be offensive.
However there is a rush (online) to infer offense at every little thing often where none is implied.

I don't consider myself racist, but I have done racist things out of sheer stupidity.
I apologised at the time to those who took offence and learned a lesson but also made it clear the offence given was not deliberate and I learned something too.
Is the teen early 20s bracket no longer the appropriate to learn, test and understand what our social norms are?
Anyone who made it through that age Bracket without doing something as thoughtless is not only a better person than I...
They are better than Gandhi, Buddha and Jesus too!

I mean that time at work when I found out my friend was having an affair with one of the hottest girls in the office...
And I said "You kept that quiet, you're a dark horse aren't you?"
Out of context a racist remark?
Possibly considering he was black, and from what I've heard...
Hung like a horse!
But luckily I hadn't said it in twitter I suppose and he has a grasp of the nuance of language :P

Justin should have gone to that party as Fidel Castro, who was a really good friend with his mom.