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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I do. Even if the Flames wanted to keep Peters for some strange reason they could not because of the backlash as our society would not forgive them. In the same breath our society feels that racism in Justin's case was excusable. This is not right and if we are ever going to get rid of racism we have to drop the excuses for everyone regardless of their profession and standing.
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I think they are materially different. Even though what Trudeau did was shockingly inappropriate and offensive for a responsible adult, I think it's hard to argue that he did so with any intention to harm. He also came out to apologize and made a statement about how wrong the actions were and in his time since then there is evidence of him actually taking actions that would clearly contradict the suggestion that his professional decision making is affected by racism. Trudeau's incidents were also not involving situations of an imbalance of power over people under his charge at that time.
With Peters, it's not just that he said those words, but that he said those words to someone under his charge, in a situation with huge imbalance of power, may have used that power imbalance to further harm that individual and appears to have had other situations in which he abused his power over those in his charge in more recent years. His 'apology' was also a very poor apology.
There is a dramatic difference between the two.