Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis says racial slurs directed at her during an online debate last night are not surprising.
OTTAWA -- The litany of racial slurs inserted into the comments section of an online Conservative leadership debate Wednesday was not surprising, candidate Leslyn Lewis said the next day.
"The racist comments during last night's debate which were directed at me, Black people and Jewish people were sadly not surprising," she said in a statement Thursday. "We are thankful to the hundreds of members in the chat who alerted us to these terrible comments and demanded swift action, which we took," he said.
The racist comments weren't mentioned by the candidates or moderator during the event, but screenshots of them circulated online after they were removed. But Lewis' campaign said though the team has held hundreds of online sessions, they've only experienced a single other instance of someone attempting to disrupt the event, and in that one, the commentator was attacking Lewis for her gender.
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