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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
I'd agree the Bill Peters thing and Trudeau's incident are a fair bit different. But this incident and Trudeau's is a lot more similar IMO. Both guys are ignorant (or will claim they are ignorant) of what they thought was a joke totally crossing the racial line.
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I think the implication here is that they were *trying* to insult and demean Akim here, which is what makes so much worse. It does sound a bit calculated to me. They tried hard to make sure Akim personally got the message...