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Originally Posted by cannon7
Fair enough. I'm referring to the posters who are saying there's no comparison between dressing up in black face and blurting out the N word. That may be true in Canada.
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It’s not that it isn’t comparable, it is that giving it equivalency is completely false and without any consideration of the motive of the individual committing the act makes it moronically absurd.
What Trudeau did was dumb and clueless but not malicious. If any blackface is so important to you why don’t you crusade after Robert Downey Jr. for his role in Tropic Thunder, or boycott Ironman movies?
For further context, the cultural appropriation of blackface has it’s roots in
Minstrel Shows.
These were burlesque or comedy shows that used white people in blackface to appropriate black people as lazy or dim-witted. That’s why it is repulsive and racist. Coming into context with this act is clueless, dumb, and offensive. However, the repugnance of minstrel shows is not anywhere close to what Trudeau was doing.