In which our regular writers toss around subjects a
little more volatile than usual.
Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau is apologizing again, this time for being caught
dressing as a blackface Aladdin at a 2001 party, thereby managing to potentially offend
two different segments of his voting base simultaneously. Or so say his
detractors.
Tom: IC, would our Canadian readers be expected to give him a pass if he’d cross-dressed as Jasmine rather than Aladdin?
Immanuel Can: Plausibly. Dressing so as to “appropriate” a culture or to mock another “race” (to use
their words) is greeted with howls of dismay; but there’s an automatic approval
of men who dress as women, so that might work for him.