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Canada’S Trudeau Regrets Brownfacing As Aladdin Almost 20 Years Ago

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naomi24 | 10:38 Thu 19th Sep 2019 | News
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//The yearbook picture, obtained by Time Magazine, shows a 29-year-old Mr Trudeau wearing a turban and skin-darkening make-up on his face, neck and hands for an Arabian Nights-themed costume party at the West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver.
The prime minister, who launched his re-election campaign just a week ago, said he should have known better.//

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/justin-trudeau-brownface-canada-pm-picture-2001-party-a9111356.html

More politically correct nonsense. What next? World class opera singers apologising for ‘White-facing’ for the role of Madame Butterfly?

These ridiculous, humourless, pathetic apologists thrive on gloom. They’re taking the fun out of life - and for fear of criticism, society is allowing them to.
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But why is it so terrible to dress up to portray a character from fiction - or real life? Why?
I guess it's the caricature of they're ethnicity they object to. Perhaps it's down to the derogatory nature of past caricature like Gollywogs or Jim Crow.

I was raised on Spike Milligan and Michael Bates "browning up" as Indians, so I'm no expert.
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If I chose to attend a fancy dress party dressed as Louis Armstrong one of the most popular jazz trumpeter, would it be wrong for me to black up, because if I didn't how would people know who I was representing, Harry James???
//If I chose to attend a fancy dress party dressed as Louis Armstrong one of the most popular jazz trumpeter, would it be wrong for me to black up...//

Depends if you have the brass neck...
Didn't Prince Harry dress up as a Nazi once? Caused quite a stir if I remember correctly.
I agree with Naomi 10.33
Only among the oversensitive, maggie.
Good shock horror article fodder for the media too.
Perhaps they should ban all these historical re-enactment groups, I am sure they must upset some.

https://norfolktankmuseum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/5th-SS-Viking-Re-enactment-Group-0026.jpg
interestingly enough, there's a Royal British Legion ad running at the moment, and in it is depicted servicemen "blacked-up". granted it's probably for camouflage - nevertheless...…… :-0
//Depends if you have the brass neck... //

or a "satchel" mouth?
Wasn't Aladdin white anyway?
Nah. Aladdin was pink and Esso was blue.
Is he standing for re election too?

Opponents will seek out the slightest misdemeanour they can , has always happened.

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