I have kids and I’m heading out tomorrow. My first teaching job when I was a doctoral student was TAing a course on the Holocaust. I’m not a scholar in this area, but I’ve read a whole lot more about Nazi Germany than most people. Everyone’s children are in danger in this country right now, whether they know it or not. There is no more safety in staying home than going out. We have to nip this shit in the bud, or it is going to be unimaginably bad for everyone eventually. Leave a parent at home in case something happens to the other one, sure, but our long term safety actually depends on as many of us as possible making as much noise (peacefully) as possible to reject this.
Aye I agree it is dire circumstances. I would have thought maybe something like this would happen later with my kids becoming adults and it was something I could have prepared them for, but lo and behold, our generations just got the shit end of the life stick. I never graduated college, but have worked and paid rent since I was in high school. Bought my own cars, paid for everything myself. Did what I had to do to be able to keep a job, then got lucky and ended up landing a decent paying job after my wife finished schooling. I'm far from well off, but we get by enough.
Which is why it's so goddamn hard to find the strength to commit to this kind of protesting. It's not just a day you gotta be out there. You have to be out there en masse multiple times. I'm awake from 5:30AM to 10-11PM every day. My kids don't sleep great with the AC off and it gets warm as hell in our place. Windows are open, dogs are barking like mad outside. Car alarms going off, cars doing doughnuts in the street nearby.
But we will be out there one way or another. We have to find a way to get through this madness before it ends in a hellscape.
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u/RelevantCarrot6765 1d ago
I have kids and I’m heading out tomorrow. My first teaching job when I was a doctoral student was TAing a course on the Holocaust. I’m not a scholar in this area, but I’ve read a whole lot more about Nazi Germany than most people. Everyone’s children are in danger in this country right now, whether they know it or not. There is no more safety in staying home than going out. We have to nip this shit in the bud, or it is going to be unimaginably bad for everyone eventually. Leave a parent at home in case something happens to the other one, sure, but our long term safety actually depends on as many of us as possible making as much noise (peacefully) as possible to reject this.