Warren campaign shows that political correctness does not equal anti-racism

In some quarters it’s being said that 2020 may go down as the year “woke culture” died — if more people start seeing recent events for what they truly are, then we just may get our wish.

As recently reported by Rolling Stone, six women of color have quit Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nod. Among other things, the women complained about being made to feels as if they were there merely as tokens for the sake of campaign optics.

While it’s easy to hang such complaints around Warren’s neck, who herself has a history of shamelessly appropriating Native American culture for the sake of furthering her own interests in law school, it takes an entire campaign staff, and its leadership team, to create such an environment, even if Warren herself must ultimately be held accountable for the climate that is created in her name.

Meanwhile, here in Canada, photographic evidence emerged last year of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau having worn blackface and brownface on multiple occasions, from high school through to his stint as a teacher at a private school in British Columbia. Given that he had grown up with a father who was instrumental in bringing about multiculturalism as a government policy and as a cherished Canadian value (to the extent the average Canadian understands what it actually means), I can’t think of a single excuse for any of the current Prime Minister’s black and brownface shenanigans, especially…