Friday, September 20, 2019

Justin's Blackface and Why It Matters

It's like Justin can't help himself.

He is constantly making a fool of himself and - by extension - Canada.


It was discovered that Justin - once, twice and THREE times - donned what has been vulgarly termed "skin-darkening make-up".

(Sidebar: it's blackface, people. Grow up.)

Justin then assumed a self-flagellating posture that should be a familiar one by now, given his many, many gaffes and insults, and begged for forgiveness.

The bribed press and his handlers certainly have their work cut out for them.

His desperate hangers-on will do mental and ethical gymnastics to excuse his juvenile behaviour but will everyone else (even Canadians who are quite happy to forgive his multitude of sins)?


It is strange for this to be the final nail in the coffin of Justin's career. He has proved to incompetent, tactless, misogynist, anti-Canadian and completely unsuited for the job of prime minister. Yet it is the knee-jerk culture of finding offense in everything and loudly squealing virtue but possessing none  - the one Justin as a leftist has relied on - that will determine what happens next. Lie to themselves if they must but leftists cannot convince everyone that something they themselves find appalling in others becomes a trifle when its own of their own.

Therein lies part of the problem.

A wise carpenter correctly pointed out that hypocrites received their true rewards by painting themselves (not in blackface) but as righteous citizens to crowds that did not solicit their opinions.

How prescient He was.

Justin has spent a good deal of his four years in office bleating the virtues of "diversity" and "feminism" while really not meaning a word of it:

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has confessed to two incidents of such “makeup” wearing — one when he was in high school and sang The Banana Boat song, or Day O, by the great Harry Belafonte; the other of course the ghastly picture of Trudeau, in turban and brownface, that was published late Wednesday by Time Magazine.

In the picture, a dark Trudeau hand is splayed comfortably on the upper chest of whom I presume was a pretty colleague at West Point Grey Academy, the posh private school in Vancouver where Trudeau worked as a teacher.

This picture dates to 2001, when Trudeau was not a kid, but a 29-year-old.
According to Time, the photo was published in the school’s yearbook, The View, and taken at an “Arabian Nights”-themed gala.

Trudeau is the only one in the picture wearing brownface.

The magazine got the picture from a Vancouver businessman who first saw it in July and thought it should be made public.

It seems unlikely to me that Trudeau would have forgotten either the incident or the picture that was taken, especially as over the years, white people wearing blackface came to be recognized as racist and absolutely toxic to politicians.
It has taken this long to uncover things that have presented themselves as huge problems now.

Who does the vetting or is Pierre's frat-boy exempt from that?


Is "diversity" a "strength" if voters blocks leave to rape, pillage and murder in the Middle East instead of embracing the Canadian ethos? Isn't that treason even in a country with "no core identity"? Is one suitably "feminist" if he assaults women?

But as Justin informs the masses, we're the ones with the problem:



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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited his history of working on "issues around sexual assault" today in his clearest denial to date of groping allegations made against him linked to an event that happened nearly two decades ago. 

"Obviously this is a situation that has been very much on my mind over the past few weeks. It's a issue that I have been deeply engaged with, not just as a leader, but all my life, since my early 20s in university ... active on issues around sexual assault and behaviours," Trudeau told reporters in Toronto.

"I've been reflecting very carefully on what I remember from that incident almost 20 years ago and again, I am ... I feel I am confident that I did not act inappropriately."
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“I’ll be blunt about it — often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate, and a woman, particularly in a professional context, can experience it differently.”

Then he called the whole affair a “learning experience” for everyone in society.

It takes a special kind of @$$hole to deny wrongdoings before turning the entire spectacle on himself and then accusing an entire nation of being mired in the social sins of which he is incredibly guilty:

“The prime minister job was not created so you could work through your issues, maybe its time that you realize you’re not the indispensable man as the leader of the liberal party?”

 
Perhaps one could be disgusted by Justin's actions - thrice committed while he was an adult and as a teacher (and, therefore, in a position to be a better role model) - but not surprised given the dancing monkey routine in India where he, at the taxpayers' expense, pranced around in wedding costumes, rubbed elbows with a convicted would-be assassin and walked away from India with a pittance of a trade deal. He and his equally ridiculous family saw absolutely nothing wrong with mimicking Indian culture and customs.

Most (if not all) leftists don't.

If a higher morality is removed from the cultural sphere, anything is possible. If there is no objective right or wrong, then what harm could be done? This idea makes everything from lack of manners and tact to even wilful murder simply a matter of personal taste.

The personal tastes of the left don the veneer of progression but don't reflect it in reality. Multiculturalism sounds groovy and who doesn't enjoy a good bowl of pho? But culture isn't the quaint affectations of reliable votes blocks (themselves means to political ends, not actual neighbours and co-workers with real ideas and feelings). It is an entire system of beliefs and practices that people rely on for their lives and expression.

In short, it's just not funny when some rich honky wears wedding clothes and dances likes an idiot because he thinks it is a riot and doesn't get why no one else does.

And the three-peat of wearing blackface and the insulting of black persons.

The mental dissonance must be baffling.


Putting aside for a moment Justin's unwillingness to act like the adult he is supposed to be by now, this is the same cretin who dug up obscure tweets and dredged absurd phobias to paint his opponents as monsters and fanatics.

Who can be persuaded of that now?

His political opponents jumped on this. It wasn't just hay in the making but hay for free.

What does it mean when Jagmeet Singh emerges as the voice of reason?:

Jagmeet Singh challenged Canadians Thursday to try to see through his eyes the implications of a shocking trio of images catching Justin Trudeau in racist acts.

This is a moment full of both political and personal resonance for the NDP leader, whose presence in the campaign as the visible-minority leader of a major party is a first for Canada.

Singh said he doesn’t know how he’ll be able to look Trudeau in the eye at all, after seeing the decades-old photos and videos of the prime minister and Liberal leader with his face darkened by makeup on three separate occasions.

“Imagine what that would feel like if you’ve gone through pain in your life, if you’ve been treated differently, if you’ve faced insults, if you’ve faced physical violence because of the way you look, if you’ve been treated differently by the police, if you’ve faced systemic barriers,” Singh said at an event in Hamilton, Ont.

“And then to see the prime minister making light of that. How would someone feel living in this country? I can tell you that it hurts.”

Okay, dial it back, but still - Justin's actions were thoughtless, crude and hurtful and the denial and ultimate excusing of it only compounds the insult.

 So where is the on this?

If the left lives by the Alinsky principles, they, too, shall die by them.

The content of Justin's character is well-known. It's time to hold him accountable by the standards he sets for others:

Despite apologizing often and talking about the need for “discussions” with Canadians, Trudeau never offered to step down and pushed back on the idea that he should resign as leader.

“I spent the morning speaking with candidates, with fellow Liberals, with allies, with leaders within racialized communities across the country and I will continue to do the work necessary to keep us moving forward in the right way,” Trudeau said.

Any other candidate would be run out of politics — Trudeau thinks he can survive this and every other controversy that comes his way.

And why shouldn’t he think that after getting a free pass on SNC-Lavalin, the Aga Khan vacation and the Kokanee Grope.


Finally, why did the Americans, as with Cameron Otis, be the ones to leak this story? Who vets and who reports?

Certainly not the people who get paid to put a whiter face on their boss.

There is no open and accountable media. Only paid mouthpieces who dash to cover their financier.

What a way to creature further division and distrust.


 (Paws up)


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