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No. Nobody with even half a brain cell on the left would do that if they were aware of the historical significance of Caucasian people painting themselves into #BlackFace. (gollywogs etc) So it's clearly something @JustinTrudeau did before he learned what it meant.
To anyone accusing me of being biased or inconsistent, suggesting that I'm only taking this position on blackface because I Iike Justin Trudeau.... Here's a thread I made over a year ago about people I'd never even heard of...
Honest opinion:
Blackface to imitate black people in general has historical connotations making it racist AF.
Blackface as an homage to a character/celeb you love doesn't make you racist... but unless Spielberg does your makeup it won't look good enough not to look disrespectful.
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If Brexit happens, there will be a new relationship negotiated between the UK and the EU.

It will be a relationship that literally nobody will have voted for...

...At the expense of one that 16,141,241 people voted for.

That is objectively undemocratic.
It's like if 10 people are watching a film.
6 vote "Let's see something else" so everyone leaves that cinema room. And then because the blonde con-artist and the nicotine-soaked racist of the 6 shout the loudest, they all end up in a film that only 2 people like.
This is why "Leave means Leave" is such a pointless statement. Leave means change from one treaty to another treaty.

Democracy cannot function if we treat "Give us *something* else" as a binding democratic mandate.
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Femi
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Forget which side of the Brexit debate you're on for one second, and can we all just agree on this:

Voting on whether to keep our current relationship with the EU and then giving politicians total freedom to choose ANY new one, is not a democratic process.
And based on everything you've seen for the past 3 years, what are odds that the politicians negotiate a new relationship between the UK and the EU that has a higher approval rating than 48%?
That's why the idea of No-Deal ANNOYS THE **** out of me. Nobody's arguing they want permanent no-deal. They're saying we'll get a better deal after as if the last 3years taught us nothing.
It's a cynical attempt to take the relationship 16 million people voted for off the table.
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If we had a referendum on #NoDealBrexit, would they sell us permanent no-deal? No. They'd sell us it on the promise of negotiating a new deal.
They'll say "we'll hold all the cards", "We're the 5th biggest economy", "They need us..."
Are you stupid enough to fall for that twice?
What happens when we're another 3 years down the line, still unable to negotiate any deal with the EU that Brexiteers like... Meanwhile Trump's looking at our vulnerable NHS with hungry eyes & grabby hands, knowing that we've just economically isolated ourselves on our continent.
You think we'll still be saying 6 years later: "This is what the people voted for"?
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