There's "Young and dumb" and then there's acting like a /pol/ meme and then running as a liberal hoping that doesn't come back to bite you.
That is pretty much the consensus. Some people who are easily offended and/or were not likely to vote for the Liberals got upset, everyone else is glad that it is only this bad and not Trumpie levels.Guys, it's decades ago. People fucking change in the meantime.
Ok for the uninitiated what is this Day-O thing
As one person when polls put it so succinctly, "he ain't brown". Which I would think would be reason for the makeup, but only black people who need no makeup should wear blackface. Even if it is for a costume party.and why is putting on make up when dressing up as Alladin racist again?
Man I'm so damn glad that I'll never be in a position where my past would be an issue, because I'm pretty sure there's pictures of my holding a huge ass Confederate flag floating somewhere on the internet...
Guys, it's decades ago. People fucking change in the meantime.
Yes.Aren't you Chinese-American? In the most official, from-China-but-now-American meaning?
Was he some kind of dumb frat boy in school or something?
It's a modern power struggle, to purge the impure to make way for betters, ordained by the high council of Tumblr...Who cares? This affects people's lives how? Have his bad policies suddenly become good, or good ones bad?
Who cares? This affects people's lives how? Have his bad policies suddenly become good, or good ones bad?
So it's a nothingburger.It's more the hypocrisy of Trudeau. And "It was a different time!" doesn't hold water back then, since if Bush had been revealed to have done something similar in the 2000 election, he'd have lost.
That would be nice if Justin actually said that. He has only been going "Very very sorry everyone! Super sorry! I did bad, sorry!" He isn't trying to be a Republican candidate, where the excuses come flowing freely before a final begrudging apology that no one will find sincere.It's more the hypocrisy of Trudeau. And "It was a different time!" doesn't hold water back then, since if Bush had been revealed to have done something similar in the 2000 election, he'd have lost.
So it's a nothingburger.
The only thing this man is guilty of in this instance is enthusiastic cosplay.
Ideology matters in a democracy. It belongs in a democracy. Purity testing bullshit that demands an absolutely perfect completely clean candidate who never once did something wrong in his entire life does not.
This perfect candidate does not exist. Therefore any candidate is flawed and it is important to pick the one who has flaws in lesser areas. The second best. The compromise. Let ideology inform you about what flaws to select for.
Be happy you at least have a choice and shun those who would limit it. For those who undermine choice seek only to place their own flawed leader at the top of the pile and this time without a means to replace them when their flaws trip them up heavily. That is what pisses me off about purity tests they limit choices.
Which is completely bullshit. But you haven't been right on any of these other points, so why start now, right?This is the logical conclusion of the callout culture Justin trudeau had celebrated. Where you have to be absolutely pure and the perfect avatar of the underprivileged.
It's more the hypocrisy of Trudeau. And "It was a different time!" doesn't hold water back then, since if Bush had been revealed to have done something similar in the 2000 election, he'd have lost.
Has his hypocrisy made anyone's lives worse? Yes, he's a sanctimonious twit, or that's his public image, but does it matter?
The first nations who he promised to help could disagree.
Trudeau promised to do better. The Assembly of First Nations says that things still need more improvement, but they are better. They also are actively encouraging First Nations people to vote on issues like climate change, housing, and justice reforms. Areas where the Liberals have made some improvement, and where the Conservative party is abysmal.Do they? This is a serious question.
Scheer is ignoring the issue completely, and considering his riding is from a region in the racist heartland it is being believed as true. Which won't affect the prairies seat that the Cons were destined to win from the beginning, but the story is spreading like wildfire and could be enough to heavily sway the election in other parts of the country.In a post that was shared just prior to the publication of Trudeau's racist blackface images, one Saskatchewan Facebook user shared a story about Andrew Scheer, alleging that the Conservative Party leader once said that he didn't need the votes of Indigenous people to get ahead.
Posting on September 16, Myke Agecoutay shared a photo of Andrew Scheer, and added the following caption, "During my role as Vice Chief of the FILE HILLS QU'APPELLE TRIBAL COUNCIL (fhqtc) our Member of Parliament, ANDREW JAMES SCHEER accepted a meeting invitation from my office, hosted in the sacred boardroom on Treaty 4 territory."
Agecoutay went on to explain, "He [Scheer] opened up the discussion as a formal position of the party platform 'I don't need your Indian votes, I don't need Indians to win'...What was more disturbing, not the fact that he was right, the look on his face, pure pleasure."
Man I'm so damn glad that I'll never be in a position where my past would be an issue, because I'm pretty sure there's pictures of my holding a huge ass Confederate flag floating somewhere on the internet...
Guys, it's decades ago. People fucking change in the meantime.
Yeah but given your ideology and platform your history is probably a feature to your base.Pfft. That's nothing. Imagine if I ran for public office and some asshole dug up my SB posts.