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Shortly before a fourth example surfaced of Justin Trudeau’s blackface compulsion, Mark Steyn wrote the finest piece yet on Canada’s race-switching PM.

Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau

Shortly before a fourth example surfaced of Justin Trudeau’s blackface compulsion, Mark Steyn wrote the finest piece yet on Canada’s race-switching PM:

The Toronto Star, like all good government-subsidized Canadian media, has been doing its best to neutralize the mammy songs. The most potentially damaging of the three (so far) blackface incidents is the middle one – a grainy video from the 1990s showing Boy Justin capering about like an ape.

So the Star set its crack investigators on the story and tracked down a much better version of the video, and conclusively proved that Tories were misleading the public when they claimed that the Prime Ministrel in blackface, blackarms, blacklegs and blackwhatever-other-appendage was wearing a T-shirt with a banana on it.

After all, the banana would imply Justin is a racist who likens black people to monkeys. Whereas prancing around in full-body blackface waving your arms and sticking your tongue out implies no such monkey-like slur.

So the Star's new HD minstrel video is of sufficient quality to show that the banana on the T-shirt is, in fact, the beak of a toucan. Unfortunately, the new video is also of sufficient quality to show that the banana is instead stuffed down Justin's trousers

It’s Steyn, so read on. Meanwhile, in Sydney:

A Sydney mum has called for Luna Park to remove a “vile” caricature from its Coney Island section, describing the 84-year-old artwork as “racist as f**k”.

The sign, which dates back to the heritage-listed park’s opening in 1935, depicts a woman at a fortune-telling machine, which reads, “You will meet a dark gentleman soon.”

How dare she assume his gender
How dare she assume his gender

Standing to the side of the machine is a dark-skinned man with exaggerated features. “Why the f**k is this still on the wall at Luna Park?” the woman wrote in a local Facebook group yesterday. “The caricature is vile.”

Reached for comment via Facebook, the mum said her daughter was “shocked” when she noticed the sign during a visit to the park.

Relax, lady. It was probably just an old Trudeau campaign ad.

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Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/canadas-prime-ministrel/news-story/0076582ca23477f8f796af07eafe4fa0