NA> Its a hate-crime in Canada and/or serious consequences to correct the
NA> latter.

SD>> Don't want to offend your Dear Leader while he trams around in blackface.

MP>Maybe that is how he identified at the time?

That incident happened decades ago when he was in college and he went as one
of the old Blackface singers as a costume at Halloween or something. At the
time it was probably not considered racist, more a copy of what Al Jolson was
doing at one time but, like a lot of things, if you look at them many years
later when attitudes have changed, acceptable things may not be that so much
anymore.

It made me think of an old Murdoch Mysteries show where someone referred to
a person as being retarded (was actually autistic). Someone else said that
it wasn't polite to call them that anymore, they should be called Morons..

This was supposedly the acceptable norm circa 1924. Personally I always
thought with truly damaged 'slow' people that retarded was the most correctly
descriptive term for their condition, but that has moved through several
evolutions through terms like 'slow' to currently be 'special' if I am up
to date. That's fine, whatever they want, but it's a bit misleading when
you don't know in which direction a person might be 'special'.
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