September 19-23, 2019
This Can’t Be Happening
“There is no context in which someone doesn’t have responsibility for things they’ve done in the past.” Justin Trudeau, to the CBC, January 2018
today the media is in an uproar for, against, it’s just gone crazy over some old photo of some old party where our illustrious leader goofed or may have goofed, or didn’t goof or was merely a just bit too young it depends but he’s apologizing for it anyhow which is good, as far as it goes I guess but I don’t think he needed to (not for that, anyway) in the context of the masquerade he had made no fault to claim (c’mon people! can’t we even have fun anymore?) though theme and enthusiasm may both have been ill considered
but it’s odd
everyone’s crying “Brown-face!” “Racist!”, “Insulting!” and “Culturally inappropriate!” in a strangely maddened response to the image splashing everywhere yet so few have said a single thing about where his hands are placed and his apparent moral hypocrisy |
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For most of my life I've had to consider pretended Christianity, for either gain or ridicule, as a part of living in a world where many don't understand or don’t care that what they do might harm another. I am Christian, white and male and I also experience racism, albeit in a non-racist way. Saying that, what is of greater concern to me than Justin Trudeau’s apparent racism is the seeming lack of concern for: 1) The questionable placement of his hands; and 2) His attempt to evade his own 'no mercy' rule.