Friday, October 5, 2018

WILLOWDALE: Freedom of speech

A friend said she was driving her elementary-school kids to soccer practice at UHS on Wednesday afternoon when she came upon a protest at the Willowdale crossroads. There were anti-Brett Kavanaugh protestors on the Sovanna Bistro corner and, across the street, a pro-Trump contingent on the Landhope corner. (The Eckman Dentistry corner was taped off; no protestors allowed.)
Her kids, predictably, wanted to know what was going on.
She explained that the picketers were expressing their opinion, as we have the right to do here in America. The ones on this corner disagreed strongly with the ones on that corner, and that's why there was a police officer standing by.
"They disagree about a politician," she said.
"What's a politician?" they asked (again, predictably; these are bright kids).
By that time they'd reached UHS, for which the mother was grateful, because she told me she had no earthly idea how to even start explaining that one.

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