He didn't say white men were oppressed. He said that there is a bizarre tendency for people not to notice horrifying atrocities when committed by people with different ethnic backgrounds out of some absurd concern about cultural sensitivity.
That being said, that's not the only reason; it's also the "this happened across the world so I don't care" effect as well as the "this is horrible so I don't really want to think about it" effect. Also, what are people supposed to say aside from "this is awful"? There's not really much else to add to that. If this was a novel occurrence, maybe, but it's not the first time something like this has happened nor will it be the last.
Absolutely Trudeau condemned it - it's the death of a Canadian citizen, of course he did, that doesn't really have anything to do with anything.
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