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| Justin Trudeau stands exposed as phony like the ‘cancel culture’ left |
| 2019-09-21 |
| [NYPOST] Justin Trudeau turns out to be even more of a vapid idiot than we’d thought. But what price will he pay for his idiocy? Canada’s ultraprogressive prime minister stands exposed as having donned black- or brownface at least three times in his younger years ‐ the most recent occasion apparently being in 2001, at age 29. The first image to surface came from a private school’s "Arabian Nights" gala where Trudeau was also kitted out in turban and robe. He apologized for that one Wednesday, then owned up to singing "Day O" in blackface at a high school talent show. (Apparently, no one was checking his old yearbooks until now.) And Thursday, up popped an early ’90s video of Trudeau in blackface and an Afro wig. He’s apologized: "I shouldn’t have done it. I should have known better, but I didn’t. And I’m really sorry." Of course, he can’t claim that, bad as it looks now, people didn’t see donning blackface as such an invariably, horribly racist sin back then: Too much of the left spent too many days last year demanding Megyn Kelly’s scalp simply because she’d made that observation ‐ even though she never actually donned the offensive makeup. She also apologized, on air and with tears ‐ but still lost her job. Then again, the rules seem to be different for liberal sinners: Virginia’s Democratic governor and lieutenant gov both held on after their younger-days blackface photos surfaced. To us, this is mainly just fresh proof that Trudeau is a phony ‐ a chameleon whose current perfect-PCness is a pose in pursuit of popularity and power. But is it worth his resignation? No. This scandal will simply be one more thing for Canadian voters to take into account in their coming elections, where polls already had him in trouble. We can’t let "cancel culture" overtake all ‐ shaming people for past actions to the point that they get kicked off social media or, worse, lose their jobs. Bullshit. Make em live by their own rules until they change them - for everyone. "Off with his head!" the Red Queen decrees The greater sin is that many liberals use such tactics to get rid of those they don’t like, while fellow travelers get let off the hook. Will they be outraged equally and fairly, or turn such incidents into witch hunts? We already know the answer. You can win mercy when you generally say all the right (i.e., left) things and vote or govern accordingly. Otherwise ... Better to stop getting hung up on every tweet, every ill-advised costume, every long-ago foolishness and instead focus on what’s important: Who a person is today. Related: Justin Trudeau: 2019-09-14 Major spy arrest in Canada Justin Trudeau: 2019-06-21 Melania Trump Style A Source of Air Force One's New Style Justin Trudeau: 2019-05-09 Trudeau declines to say if Asia Bibi in Canada due to ‘security issues’ |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 Pretty sure Fidel wore some kind of face makeup when he was fighting the the Batistas in the jungle. Maybe not blackface but still like father like son they say. |
| Posted by: jpal 2019-09-21 18:02 |
| #13 Unlike Justin Zero. I've never got the point or the "humor" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-09-21 12:46 |
| #12 "I shouldn’t have done it. I should have known better, but I didn’t. And I’m really sorry." And then his eyebrows fell off. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-09-21 12:42 |
| #11 "people didn’t see donning blackface as such an invariably, horribly racist sin back then" That's close, but not it. Blackface used to mean something other than just darkening your skin for a costume. It was the intentional mocking black folks with specific minstrel show makeup. Now intent doesn't matter and even a super-dark tan is enough to get one branded a racist. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-09-21 12:05 |
| #10 "What price will we pay for the idiocy?" See: Obama, Barack |
| Posted by: Glotle Anginelet8973 2019-09-21 09:24 |
| #9 Justin Trudeau turns out to be even more of a vapid idiot than we’d thought. But what price will he pay for his idiocy? We've got a bunch of our own vapid lefty idiots running for office. Hopefully, none of them will win the presidency. If one of them should win, we will then have to ask: "What price will we pay for the idiocy?" |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-09-21 09:17 |
| #8 But what price will he pay for his idiocy? Resignation would be just fine with me - it's well past time to make these SOB's pay the same price as Brendan Eich did. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-09-21 08:19 |
| #7 The Salem Witch Trials accelerated when local farmers realized they could grab their neighbors' land by accusing them of bogus crimes, and letting hysteria take its course. Stalin and Beria's secret police depended heavily on ordinary citizen informants, many of whom were motivated by simple envy and resentment and who denounced their neighbors to the NKVD in hopes of snagging their coveted urban apartments when they were dragged off to the gulag. Today's wokey-jokey identity politics mob is motivated more than anything by a power grab, the desire to out a cloud over every powerful white male in order to snag his position when the mob brings him down - regardless of whether there's even a shred of evidence of the bogus crimes they accuse him of. This is a power grab, pure and simple. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-09-21 08:05 |
| #6 Woke - See: Reaper Indoctrination |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-09-21 07:49 |
| #5 Justin Trudeau is mercilessly trolled online by conservatives and liberals for his brownface and blackface shame that has left his 'woke' reputation in tatters |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-09-21 05:27 |
| #4 "Brownface" doesn't make him a phony - except by his own rules. Viva Alinsky! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-21 04:03 |
| #3 A pallid old pol of Harare Wore all native garb on safari. Oh boy, was he black! Did that blunt teh attack That would follow his blackface furore? Sadly, it didn't. Might've fared better if he'd really gone native and affected... a Ferrari. |
| Posted by: Anginetle Elmoluter9778 2019-09-21 02:21 |
| #2 Every white apologist is a phony. Or suicidal dumb. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-21 01:46 |
| #1 When we do it it's OK, when The Other does the same thing it's not OK. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-09-21 01:36 |