Winnipeg city council candidate asks voters to accept he's grown since he issued hateful tweets
Omar Kinnarath describes his decade-old tweets as horrible and says he takes responsibility for them.A Winnipeg city council candidate says he takes full responsibility for posting misogynist, homophobic and antisemitic content to social media a decade ago and wants voters to know he has changed.
"I just want people — voters and the general public — to realize that I am a real person. I'm not like the typical politician that tries to hide or shy away from these sorts of things. I do face these things head on."Kinnarath said toxic masculinity contributed to the way he was socialized and he hopes voters in the Oct. 26 election give him the chance to demonstrate that he has learned.
Tara Mann, a former romantic partner who has a child with Kinnarath, says he is indeed a better person. She described him as a good father who does good work in the West End, and said it would be a shame if his old tweets prevent him from getting elected.The combination of the volume of his offensive tweets, and how relatively recent they are, present an electoral challenge for Kinnarath, says a reputation management expert.
"It really amounts to, what emotion are you able to leave voters with? Do they believe you to be real or not? And I mean, that's pretty much an unquantifiable factor, but it is the key one," Housser said in an interview.
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