Doug Ford: “You can be racist against people that eat little red apples.”

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“You can be racist against people who have a drinking problem. You can be racist against people that eat little red apples.”

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—Doug Ford, explaining his assertion that East York teacher Joe Killoran (also known as “the shirtless jogger”) was being “racist” toward Rob Ford (the self-professed “most racist guy around”) during a Canada Day confrontation between the two men. In a video of the incident, Killoran, who has become a minor folk hero thanks to all the publicity, can be heard yelling at the mayor, but he doesn’t seem to utter any racial slurs.