Letter: Justin Trudeau ‘Exploited the Culture of the “Woke”’
A former member of the prime minister’s foreign-policy staff encourages Canadian progressives to consider other candidates.
The Woke Will Always Break Your Heart
In September, Time obtained photographs of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in brownface at a 2001 party. After the images surfaced, Stephen Marche wrote that Canadian progressives must decide, as they prepare to vote in Monday’s federal election, whether they care more about Trudeau’s policy achievements or the pursuit of social and cultural change through the eradication of racist and sexist imagery.
“If voters who believe in multiculturalism cannot forgive face paint,” he argued, “the multicultural project as policy may not survive.”
Stephen Marche is always a pleasure to read, sharp in his sentences is misleading and erroneous in the choice it presents for progressives. And its discussion of brownface is especially depressing.
