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• Commented on They Heard The News Today, Oh Boy: Blackface Edition
  "Wrong-headed as some of these comments may be, I'm uncomfortable to see them lampooned by the folks who should be hosting the discourse. How useful is that?" Very useful, actually. One of the reasons that people can get away with...
• Commented on A Lesson on Blackface
  "Was the black student dressed as John Candy discussed in a town hall meeting of the White Students Union? Nah, didn't think so." It's categorically different. Since the colonization of Africa began, white people have caricatured black people, and those...
• Commented on A Lesson on Blackface
  There's a difference between intent and content, though. One can easily say/do something that is racist in content without having the intent of saying something racist. But it's also worth pointing out that ignorance is itself a race-based privilege. People...
• Commented on Rude Bwoys
  It's a historical precedent, Jessica. Blackface has been used, and is still used, by white people as a form of racist humour. More than a century of precedent is difficult to ignore, and - in response to Facebook User -...
• Commented on Torontoist vs. Torontoist in… Tamil Protests
  Just because CP24 calls it a 'human shield' doesn't mean that those women and children were compelled to participate against their free will. Or do you simply believe that (brown) women and children are incapable of acting of their own...