The article doesn’t quote the family saying that the shirt is racist. So I suppose you could nitpick the CTV title writer there. (Maybe they said it, but it wasn’t included in the article though).
The family is quoted as saying the comedians are racist.
They do seem to have a pattern of joking about dead indigenous women/children.
They’ve also joked about how anybody that complains to HR about workplace harassment is going to have a bad time in the oil patch. While what that comedian was saying is probably true, he was celebrating it, not criticizing it.
They’ve also presented an “explanation” of the shirt in which they claim the shirt is meant as a criticism of the failure of the state to protect indigenous women. If you listen to it it’s not a very convincing argument, it sounds pretty disingenuous.
Edit to add: To suggest Pickton’s victims were all ‘hookers’, is probably the most racist part.
The article doesn’t quote the family saying that the shirt is racist. So I suppose you could nitpick the CTV title writer there. (Maybe they said it, but it wasn’t included in the article though).
The family is quoted as saying the comedians are racist.
They do seem to have a pattern of joking about dead indigenous women/children.
They’ve also joked about how anybody that complains to HR about workplace harassment is going to have a bad time in the oil patch. While what that comedian was saying is probably true, he was celebrating it, not criticizing it.
They’ve also presented an “explanation” of the shirt in which they claim the shirt is meant as a criticism of the failure of the state to protect indigenous women. If you listen to it it’s not a very convincing argument, it sounds pretty disingenuous.
Edit to add: To suggest Pickton’s victims were all ‘hookers’, is probably the most racist part.