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Some observations, reflections and musings on the minstrelsy of a prime minister, in random sequence, and merely as they have occurred, over the past 24 hours:

Well, we still have Bianca. Thank goodness.

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The ferociously talented, indomitable and instantly charming Bianca. How lucky Canada is to have such a face to present to the world. She The North.

It was the prayer of the Pharisee: “Lord, I thank Thee that I am not like other men.”

In the new, revised version for prime ministers deep in the sticky stuff or paddle-less up that famous vile river: “Lord (or Gerald) I thank thee I am not like anybody in the Liberal caucus, or running for a Liberal nomination, for Lo, they would be out on their rump in a flash and selling pencils in the rain, if I caught them in blackface.”

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On Thursday, Mr. Trudeau signed on to the “white privilege” theory of social justice virtuecrats. It was his white privilege that shielded him from seeing how stupid and wrong it is to impersonate and mock other races.

I would argue his privilege doesn’t come from any theorized whiteness. It has a much more narrow individualized base. It is the privilege of “JustinTrudeauness”: being the standout glamorous son of the deeply intelligent, truly charismatic prime minister Pierre Trudeau.