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A month after it famously deemed a 30-second Tonight Show comedy clip to be an act of racist “microaggression,” the McGill Students Society has now admitted that it got it wrong.

Rather than calling out racism, the Students Society of McGill University said in a recent motion, it “trivialized” it.

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“I feel that we need to realize that we made a mistake, then move on from there,” student councilor Élie Lubendo told a Thursday meeting of the SSMU, according to the McGill Tribune.

In February, the SSMU forced one of its own, VP Internal Brian Farnan, to publicly apologize and undergo sensitivity training after he circulated a seemingly benign video of U.S. President Barack Obama.

First broadcast during a monologue by Tonight Show host Jay Leno, the doctored clip appears to show the normally reserved U.S. leader kicking open a door after a press conference.

“Honestly midterms get out of here,” wrote Mr. Farnan wrote in an email attached to the clip.