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That meant viewers didn’t know exactly what question Trudeau had been asked to elicit his eye-brow-popping response, which begins at about the 4:47 mark in the link above.

“I don’t know where exactly to point my finger,” said Trudeau. “I think there’s probably an awful lot of factors that come together to shape societal behaviour — whether it’s certain types of music? There’s a lot of misogyny in, you know, certain types of music. There’s issues around pornography and its prevalence now and its accessibility, which is something I’m really wrapping my head around as a father of kids who are approaching their teen years. And there’s also just the shifting parental roles as well. There’s a lot of communities in which fathers are less present than they have been or they might be in the past, and there’s more need to have engaged positive role models.”

For Toronto journalist Desmond Cole, all that talk about “certain types of music” and certain “communities” was code.

Is it a coincidence that two of the three factors Trudeau cited about violence against women are well-worn stereotypes about black people? —

Desmond Cole (@DesmondCole) September 22, 2015

Of course, here in Alberta, one could equally well hear those words as a reference to domestic violence in the aboriginal community.

It turns out, the Up the Debate editors did Trudeau no favours. The question he’d been asked wasn’t about violence against women in general, but specifically about the bad behaviour of today’s generation.