Both situations are obviously offensive and completely unacceptable. However it is bizarre to suggest that two recent instances of past racist behaviour by high profile individuals coming to light are not comparable. Is it not natural to compare the two scenarios?
In Peters’ case I’d argue it’s worse because he used racist language to target a person based on his ethnicity, whereas the in the Trudeau scenario he mocked a group of people in a general sense who were not directly present. Also, there is a large cohort that is willing to be more forgiving with Trudeau than they would be otherwise because he’s ‘on their side’ politically.
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