Stuff like this and the "base" he has created give off pretty harsh trump vibes.
Here is a link confirming for those wanting one. Sorry I did not include it originally.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.712106
Yeah. A lot of Canadians hold suuuper regressive views about indigenous people. Try driving through or stopping for gas in a reserve with friends or family sometime and see how the react.
Because way, waaaaaay more will react, and react poorly, than you're probably prepared for.
He's said a lot of awful things. He's hung out with fascists and Nazi's. He's literally the bottom of the barrel. During the pandemic he pretty much said that the cerb was bad and Conservatives would never do that as Conservatives don't help people.
We've gotten to the rate of progress where even a normal conservative backbencher from 20 years ago will have said stuff that's now extremely dated. 20 years as an MP is right around what you need to rise to leader the normal way, I think.
Edit: To be clear, I think this is good. If you don't want to be painted a bad way by history try being on the right side of it.
The multiple instances of black/brown face..... he obviously didn't care if he did it repeatedly. Stop defending a racist twat. There is also the fact he applauded a Waffen SS member.
There is a difference there. RDJ is an actor playing a role that even he admits he wouldn't get away with now (as funny as it is). Trudeau is a world leader who is super anti racist and PC. It looks bad when he is a hypocrite who is a racist.
I still don't understand why it was such a big deal...
I get that blackface is an issue in bigger productions because yeah, they should really cast a black actor instead of putting makeup on a white one, but this was (as I understand it) a high school play where an actor of the correct race was probably not available (I know it would've been hard to find where I went to school), and even then, it most definitely wasn't a paid gig, so the issue around stealing jobs is completely moot.
Is it insensitive? Oh yes. Is it actually hateful towards black / brown people? I don't think so.
"They should learn the value of hard work" is on a completely different level, IMO. As if they don't work as hard as anyone else.
I'm not a poilievre fan either. He too applauded the nazi. Practically our entire parliament did. I do not trust that he will change anything. I do not think Canada or the USA will survive the next 100 years.
June 12th, 2008. The original doesn't state which day in June he said the remarks originally, but mathematically we can determine the recant was said no more than 12 days later.
Oh, okay. I'll put my pitchfork away then. A little bit anyway, "lazy 'injuns" was still a shitty thing to say and not promising from a prospective leader, regretted or not.