Okay, first off, it’s canadian politics, so I don’t really care that much...

But hold the phone. The guy dresses up as Aladdin, and because he put in makeup that made his skin darker, he is now a racist and forced to apologize? Are you fucking kidding me?

If I dress up on Halloween as a skeleton, do I have to go to the local cemetery and apologize?

If my wife (Korean woman) dresses up as Wonder Woman, is it racist if she wears light skinned makeup?

What in the hell is wrong with the world nowadays. I’m in absolute disbelief.

https://apple.news/A0BassxIHQFe1rAQiku49zA

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Yearbook photo of Trudeau in 'brownface' makeup roils Canada election
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore 'brownface' at a private school gala nearly two decades ago.
The re-election campaign of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada was thrown into turmoil Wednesday when Time magazine published a 2001 photograph of him wearing brownface makeup at a private school party.
Time said the photograph had been taken when Mr Trudeau, then a 29-year-old teacher, attended an “Arabian Nights” themed costume gala at the West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver, British Columbia.
A spokeswoman for Mr Trudeau’s reelection campaign confirmed that the photo was him.
“He attended with friends and colleagues dressed as a character from Aladdin,” the spokeswoman, Zita Astravas, said.
The photograph appeared in the school’s 2000-2001 yearbook, The View, Time said, adding that it had obtained a copy of the yearbook from a Vancouver businessman, Michael Adamson, a member of the school community.
The magazine reported that Mr Adamson, who first saw the photograph in July, felt that it should be made public.
The news immediately injected new uncertainty into the political career of Mr Trudeau, the Liberal Party leader who began his reelection campaign a week ago. He has sought to cast himself as a champion of Canada’s racial and ethnic minorities in his nearly four years as prime minister.
The photograph immediately drew comparisons to the scandal that enmeshed Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia earlier this year over a photograph published in a medical school yearbook about 35 years earlier.
Initially, Mr Northam apologised for appearing in the yearbook photo, which shows a man in blackface makeup standing next to someone wearing a Klan robe and hood.
But he later insisted that he was actually not either of the people in the picture.
The photo of Mr Trudeau immediately became the dominant topic on Canadian news websites.
Many Canadians are of South Asian and Middle Eastern descent and Mr Trudeau has four Sikhs in his Cabinet.
Many of those communities have been an important source of support for the Liberals and Mr Trudeau.
But on a disastrous state trip to India earlier in the year, Mr Trudeau attracted ridicule for wearing flashy silk and gold-embroidered outfits and pointed, red silk shoes.
Though intended as a gesture of respect for Indian culture, it was widely seen in Canada as a cringe-inducing game of dress-up.
A self-proclaimed feminist, Mr Trudeau was accused last year of groping a reporter in 2000 while he was still a private citizen.
Mr Trudeau rejected the allegation and it largely became forgotten.
On Wednesday, Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the New Democratic Party, who is a Sikh, said Mr Trudeau’s costume was “insulting” and suggested, along with the groping allegations, that Mr Trudeau may not be the same person in private as he portrays himself in public.
“Who is the real Mr Trudeau? Is it the one behind closed doors, the one when the cameras are turned off that no one sees?” Singh told reporters. “Is that the real Mr Trudeau? Because more and more, it seems like it is.”
He added: “He’s got to answer the question why he did that and what does that say about what he thinks about people who, because of who they are, because of the colour of their skin, face challenges and barriers and obstacles in their life.”
Mustafa Farooq, the executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, said that he found the photograph “deeply saddening” and called for the prime minister to apologize.
“The wearing of blackface/brownface is reprehensible, and harkens back to a history of racism and an Orientalist mythology, which is unacceptable,” Farooq said in a statement. 
Political analysts noted that for Mr Trudeau, a prime minister of the Instagram age, who had meticulously constructed a global image as a progressive on issues such as gender equality, Indigenous and minority rights, the image of him in brownface could be politically damaging.
“It could repel some progressive voters who are against any kind of cultural appropriation and especially blackface,” said Jean-François Daoust, an expert in public opinion at McGill University. “It can undermine the aura he has tried to create.”
But Mr Daoust added that it was important not to overstate the effects of an event that happened 18 years ago. He noted that the Conservative leader, Andrew Scheer, was also being taken to task for past behaviour, including comments he made in 2005 that same-sex couples should not be equally entitled to wed because marriage was meant for “natural procreation.”
Barry Kay, a political-science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, said the revelation was embarrassing and potentially damaging for Mr Trudeau, but cautioned that it was too early to determine the effect it would have on the campaign. He said the image could reinforce existing impressions of Mr Trudeau as inauthentic.
“I am not sure the extent that it will resonate in public opinion in a campaign where everyone has been turning on everyone,” Mr Kay said.
The publication of the photo comes amid an acrimonious debate about multiculturalism in Quebec, an electorally vital province, which recently passed a law banning public-sector teachers, judges and police officers from wearing religious symbols at work. Mr Trudeau, whose pro-immigration stance has been a cornerstone of his premiership, has condemned the law, which he has characterized as antithetical to Canadian values.
Mr Trudeau, who is a member of parliament for Papineau, a multicultural area in Montreal, has been popular with immigrants who have lauded his pro-immigrant stance, including taking in 25,000 Syrian refugees. Analysts said it remained to be seen whether the photograph could alienate some minority voters in key urban areas like Toronto, which have large immigrant communities or whether it would be dismissed as an unfortunate indiscretion.
The issue of cultural appropriation reverberated in Canada in July 2018 when a show “Slav,” by the acclaimed Quebec theatre director Robert Lepage, premiered at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. The show, which featured white actors playing slaves, immediately spawned a backlash and criticism that white artists had recklessly appropriated black culture. Only two of seven cast members were black. The show was cancelled after two performances.
By Ian Austen © 2019 The New York Times

Right here on the same page, just a couple of threads down.

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