Protester Mocks, Prevents Working Mom From Supporting Family
Anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters blocked a New York City mom from driving to work on Tuesday, a now-viral video shows, then mocked her for caring about her job.
Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez captured the maddening interaction at a busy intersection, when a woman got out of her car to reason with two protesters blocking the road.
“I have a kid!” she pleads. “If I don’t get to work…” One of the protesters cuts her off.
“I know. And these people,” the woman says, gesturing to the protesters, “are having their children taken, their parents taken.”
“But what about my kid?” The beleaguered mom asks frantically. “If I lose my job, then what happens to my kid?”
The protester claims she can’t help the stranded woman. “This is what’s going to happen right now,” she placates, like a condescending kindergarten teacher fending off a tantrum.
Later in the video, Hernandez asks the protesters how it feels to prevent a mom from going to work. The man replies, sarcastically, “Oh no, not work!”
He giggles, scoffing, “I care so much!”
You can watch the full confrontation here.
The footage racked up millions of views and thousands of outraged comments across several different X accounts before appearing in traditional news coverage. Clearly, it struck a chord with rank-and-file Americans — and that’s a good thing.
In his Politics, Aristotle asserts families are the building blocks of society. History proves him right — civilizations thrive when parents can fulfill their biblical duty to love, raise, protect and provide for their children.
The protesters on video claim to fight for the rights of families and children. But true family advocates understand preventing some parents from caring for their children doesn’t benefit suffering families.
True family advocates make parents’ jobs easier, because they know good parenting requires immense sacrifice. The protesters in the video not only refused to help a hamstrung mom but told her to get over it.
They shamelessly explained her child meant less than the children they had chosen to champion.
Americans have the right to protest peacefully. They have the right to plead their cause in the common square and persuade others to their view. But they do not have the right to block public roads in service of a cause only they can afford to care about.
Because that’s the grand irony, isn’t it? Only the most “privileged” Americans can mock others for missing work, while spending hours protesting in the street. Only the most entitled can espouse the causes of family and children while actively harming those with different worldviews.
The rest of us plebes — the ones with jobs, children, responsibilities and self-awareness — know better.
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