Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

[ijmorlan]

Pulling out a gun at a party and randomly killing a bunch of people is evil and psychotic. Dressing up in a way that is widely, or even universally, considered to be bad taste, is not. Words have meanings, and Trudeau matches none of the ones you used.

You don't have to answer, but are you white? People of colour often do not see things like blackface and mocking certain ethnicities as simply "bad taste" because racism is not nice to witness or experience...especially from your nations leader. When you are on the receiving end of racism, it's a very humiliating experience. You don't get to decide how we feel and see these things.

Your skin colour and my skin colour have nothing to do with whether certain actions are evil and/or psychotic.

We’re talking about dressing in costume, as actors will. This can be inappropriate, and in context could even be threatening (I’m thinking about a KKK rally, for example, or a different modern event designed to intimidate), but in and of itself in the absence of any other evidence of ill will it cannot reasonably be described as either evil or psychotic.

I’m also aware of the fact that I’m talking to the guy who characterized homeless as vermin. So on some level I really don’t know why I’m saying any of this: it’s known that you frequently exaggerate to the point of absurdity, and often say things that are not worthy of a response. But you asked the question reasonably, so I’ve spent some time attempting to come up with a reasonable response that tries to be helpful.