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Originally Posted by ChiddyBang
Lol at the posters acting completely clueless itt. It's an international story because trudeau and his party are constantly virtue signalling and acting like allies who care about dumb **** like blackface. This is why people are having a laugh at Trudeau's and the liberals expense, clearly.
That's fine and all, but it's also completely appropriate for major politicians to "virtue signal" opposition to homophobia, racism and the like. Just as it is wrong when trump "dog whistles" the opposite direction. Liberals are correct to point out, for instance, that Scheer hasn't apologized for his homophobic past statements, was using those statements to try and deny what should be basic human rights to gay people, and to this day refused to attend pride parades. These things matter, and labeling them "virtue signalling" is mainly just silly.
And of course the liberals have done many things, rightly or wrongly, that are not just "virtue signalling" one issues related to race. For instance, their first major action after taking power was a big jump in responding to the syrian refugee crisis, and last year canada resettled more refugees than any other country on earth.