I’m not going to apologize just because I’m Canadian. In fact, I’m not going to apologize at all.
What I am going to do, however, is watch with an uncomfortable certainty that the events of the past few days are going to culminate exactly the way I think they will, and I’ll be proven right…and my faith in humanity as a concept will slip down another few notches.
So just recently some photos of our Prime Minister have surfaced with him in brown-face makeup. These photos are over a decade old, and were taken back during a time when something like that was not entirely acceptable in society, but not so much that people would run around screaming their heads off at being offended. And now, our dear Prime Minister, that bastion of equality and intersectionality, Justin Trudeau, is working to own his past sins and properly castigate himself for something that most moderates would have found mildly amusing when it happened.
And he’s gonna get away with it. Why? One word: Tribalism.
Many are saying that since he’s apologizing for his misdeeds that he should be pardoned in the eyes of the Church of Intersectionality. He’s still a male feminist, still pushing for all the things the extreme left/cancel culture wants, so he’s OK. Yet those same people will look at a guy like Kevin Hart and condemn him for eternity because he’s not one of the ‘cool kids’ like Justin. Ugh.
I sick and tired of kids…KIDS…screaming that we adults have to recognize and acknowledge our privilege and the head start it got us in life. Why? What’s it to you that I was born white, born male, and grew up comfortable as a male and attracted to females? Why must I acknowledge that I own a condo, drive a nice car, and work at a job that allows me to pay for this? Why is it ‘privilege’ that the job came from an education that I took out a student loan to get? What makes me different from any of the others with whom I graduated?
The day no person of color, LGBT, or woman makes more than me in the work world, then I’ll start thinking of privilege.
The owner of my company is a woman. Some of our project managers are women, people of color, and I’m not sure about their sexual orientation because it’s none of my fucking business, OK? Same thing if they’re trans…it doesn’t matter to me. The only time something like that would matter is if I find myself attracted to them, and I”m already taken so again, not relevant.
I’m glad to hear that a lot of people are clapping back at this cancel culture, and hopefully within a few years it’ll all just fade away as the cold grip of reality comes down on these idealistic morons who just want a free lunch. When Trump wins again in 2020 I’m sure nothing’s going to change. It’ll be Russia all over again, as well as trolls, white supremacists, and the like…anything to dodge the fact that the Democrats had no feasible platform from which to kick off a campaign.
No…this will take a few more years to happen. Knowing Trump, he’ll be involved in a real scandal at about year 7 of his presidency, at which time it’ll all fall apart. Stormy Daniels happened before he got into politics, so you can’t equate it with Monica and the infamous blue dress. That happened in the oval office while Bill was president. That was worthy of an investigation, in my opinion. You can be a sleaze-ball on your own time, but when you sit in the big chair, best to behave.
Anyway, if Justin walks away from this, then the left has shown their hypocrisy. Rules for me but not for thee, and all that garbage. They should be screaming for his resignation now, and not just because of this. Diana Davison had a great piece in the Post Millennial about this. Sufficed to say, these photos are just the icing on a cake that should have GTFO written on it before handing it to him.
If your doctrine about past sins is exclusion and cancelling, then it must apply to all if it’s to be taken seriously. If you only expel those with whom you disagree and spare those already in your tribe, then your rules are useless and it is we who should cancel you. The tide is beginning to turn, but we have a ways to go before we can purge this divisive thorn in our sides, and get back to actually moving forward as a culture and as a nation.