Posted on 09/20/2019 9:42:35 AM PDT by billorites
Canadians have seen the face of social justice, and it’s rather dark. On Wednesday Time magazine published a yearbook photo of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dressed in a turban and white robes, his face covered with brown makeup. It was taken at an “Arabian Nights”-themed gala in 2001 for the Vancouver private day school where he was teaching drama, French and math.
“It was a racist thing to do,” said the Liberal leader. “I should have known better then, but I didn’t and I’m sorry.” Mr. Trudeau, who was 29 at the time, hopes self-laceration will pre-empt a whipping from opponents. It won’t, especially with an election Oct. 21. “Like all Canadians, I was extremely shocked and disappointed,” said Conservative chief Andrew Scheer, adding that the Aladdin costume betrayed “a complete lack of judgment and integrity” and that Mr. Trudeau is “not fit to govern.”
Mr. Scheer can be accused of opportunism. Not so Jagmeet Singh, leader of the left-wing New Democratic Party. “Tonight is not about the Prime Minister,” he tweeted. “It’s about every young person mocked for the colour of their skin. The child who had their turban ripped off their head. And those reliving intense feelings of pain & hurt from past experiences of racism. To you, I say you are loved.”
Mr. Singh, a Sikh, wears a turban himself. Good luck, Mr. Trudeau.
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Breezy, preening progressivism masked what everybody knew: The dilettante son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin was ushered into Liberal politics after an extended adolescence and abruptly made party leader because of his surname. This new scandal is damaging mostly because it reminds Canadians who leads them—not a racist but a hectoring, hypocritical high-school drama teacher who’s in over his head, not an ideologue but an empty turban.
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“An empty turban”
ouch and priceless.
The guy is a man-child never grown up idiot....................
Doesn’t Canada have an election coming up?
According to who?
That’s stupid. However, if those old photos really do ‘sink’ Trudeau, to me that means his support was already sliding off the cliff to begin with. It’s like firing an employee for being 16 minutes late. Yeah, if you only need one more offense to kick them out.
People need to get past this fake outrage over costumes worn 15 or 20 years in the past. The millenials are not going to accept that brand of artificial guilt for long once they come of age to vote. Who hasn’t done some of these harmless things? Stop the fake piety.
Can anyone tell me why it’s wrong to wear black/brown face makeup? If I wanted to go trick-or-treating as a famous black American, why would it be wrong to go all out?
Seriously, this is ridiculous.
Stop defending liberals....
We dont see anything wrong with it but THEY do.
Liberals invented the “blackface is racist and offensive” meme.
Now they have to live with it......even when one of their own is outed.
It’s not, it’s just another thing which the left has been able to weaponise against their opponents, whoever their opponents may be. Just as the ridiculous thing about “colored people” being verboten but “people of color” being politically correct. Risible, stupid, hypocritical, etc.
You know these PC hobbled folks just ought to say “It was a holoween party or Hey I was a Teenager so give me a freakn break”. Instead they Obama Obama Obama!
Live by the PC, die by the PC:-)
Hell he is unsinkable if not sunk by now....what a naive pajama boy....
“ waaay down upon the swami riverrrr”
Oh he didn’t just do it once. Two more incidents of him donning blackface have surfaced. Paul Joseph Watson, Black Pigeon Speaks and others have hilariously skewered him on Youtube.
Trudeau should claim to be an Indian now doing white-face.
No one would care.
I don’t even like Turd-O, but this is just ridiculous.
But I do appreciate the irony of the Left's ridiculous political correctness standards sinking one of their own.
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