It’s not hard: If you’re a politician at a public function and someone approaches you wearing a T-shirt bearing a highly offensive message in big bold letters, you walk away.
If you can’t make out the words on the T-shirt (maybe because you recently ditched your eyeglasses in an attempt to appear more relatable), then surely one of your staffers has vision and sense enough to tell you to walk away. What you don’t do is stick around to pose for a smiley photo with the guy in the offensive shirt and then proceed to claim — as if Canadians are a uniquely stupid people — that neither you nor your staff noticed the homophobic nonsense printed in enormous block letters across his chest.
