Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
Let's be honest the Liberal Left political correctness world is simply fed via the internet, and it's such an easy platform to produce quick shock and horror stories like this .

It was 20 years ago for God sake it's just nasty politics at work.

I worked in a socialist type environment all my life and as RB points out nearly every fancy dress type event produced a Hitler some of whom were really decent folk with a strong sense if inclusiveness, not right wing militia .

These new parties are just trolling the internet for any chance to expose any event or stupid mistake drawn from simple youthfillness naivety.

What a sad trolling world we are in , and it does seem to be gathering favour amongst the Liberal, Left ,Green political world
This one is tougher for you, but I reckon you'll be able to start blaming Jeremy Corbyn for it in a post or two's time.

I've not been to many fancy dress parties in my life, but there's never been anyone dressed as Hitler, or a Nazi, or blacked/browned up at the ones I have been to. That said, I tend to agree that people are going well over the top with this and I can't help thinking that as someone whose natural political enemies would be on the right, this is probably driven by a feeling of hypocrisy against Trudeau because, rightly or wrongly, it is felt that he would be joining in with the condemnation if it was someone else who had been involved.

I must say mind that most, if not all, of those who have contributed to this thread are of an age whereby they can remember a BBC television programme, which went out at a peak time, that consisted of men who had been blacked up singing songs. I used to ask myself what is the point of the Black and White Minstrel Show and hardly ever watched it, but it was all part of a culture around in the 60s to 80s which shaped the type of people we became.

In light of that, it's hardly a surprise that us of a certain age react like we do to stories like this, but we have to face the fact that there are a substantial number out there who have not been brought up during an age where mocking minorities, sexist and/or racist behaviour etc. was commonplace and they find the thinking behind something like the Black and White Minstrel Show offensive - who's to say that it is not those who are, say, under 30 who have got this right and us who have got it wrong?