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Originally Posted by belsarius
That’s BS. It’s not a left/right thing at all. It’s a holding people accountable and understanding growth. It’s also about context. Bill Maher came out and acknowledged what he said was wrong, apologized and followed up his next show with black guests that more or less informed his audience about the negativity of the word. Trudeau came out and apologized and recognized what he did was wrong, acknowledged that his privilege clouded his judgement at the time and apologized.
Peters did eventually issue an apology to Treliving for the situation. There was no apology to the player it affected. Even if he had apologized in the locker room 10 years ago he could have reiterated it toward Akim again. The same with Cherry, just double down that you agree with what you said.
If you want to call it a left/right divide then you have to admit the left owns up to their actions and try’s to improve and the right is unapologetic and stands by their actions regardless of how they wronged another. Personally I think this is NOT how to characterize the “left/right” political divide, and does nothing for the conversation.
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I disagree. Do you think that if it was Scheer dressing in blackface he could have handled it like Trudeau did and not be forced to resign as party leader? If a right leaning radio talk show host said the N-word in the context that Maher did, no amount of apologizing would change his fate. He would be fired. Plain and simple.
As for owning their actions, Ralph Northam either dressed up in blackface or as a hooded Klansman (take your pick), denied it, and kept his job as governor of Virginia.