Not a leftist, woke space

Anyone who expects a newspaper’s editorial policy to exactly match their own political ideology, or is triggered by editorial cartoons, would be better off in a dictatorship. The free press should not be a safe space for those who fear their beliefs questioned. 

The Star’s editorial page regularly features columns by our Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse, and conservative business columnist Don Brunell, as well as local conservatives. It’s hardly a leftist, “woke” space. But apparently, it doesn’t pass some potential readers’ purity test for what is acceptable, and they expect The Star to bow down to their demands. 

And the assertion that members of our community they disagree with should not be able to exercise their right to free speech and assembly is eerily reminiscent of the Soviet Communist regime of Russia and its satellite countries, which were finally freed by the efforts of people like Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa, and President Ronald Reagan.  

If reading opinions from people in our community that they don’t agree with offends them, or seeing peaceful demonstrations somehow threatens them, or if an editorial cartoon puts that person in crisis, they need to realize that not everything is about them, and that being a snowflake is no way to go through life. 

Dan Langdon