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In response to
"When I was in Montreal this past weekend, I heard two white Anglophone middle-aged Canadian men talking about Trudeau/blackface -- (edited)"
by
ty97
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Thinking on this, I can't recall any specific instruction from home or school or church instructing which derogatory things were wrong.
Posted by
Max
Sep 26 '19, 11:04
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There were probably constant messages from PBS shows about treating others with respect, but all I can remember picking up were observations of cues from movies and other people.
I can't recall anyone in school ever putting on blackface but I also don't remember anyone instructing us that it would be wrong to do. That's strange to realize.
If I recall, peer pressure was sufficient that if my class/friends were in a pack and someone said 'okay next we're going to play Little Rascals' everyone would have just gone along with it because that's just what you did to keep playing. Someone calls Smear the Queer and you start running because that's what it calls for you to do. We didn't think beyond the moment until maybe high school.
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