Just A Reminder That Its Okay To Be Offended. Being Offended Does Not Make Your Argument Invalid. You

Just a reminder that it’s okay to be offended. Being ‘offended’ does not make your argument invalid. You are allowed to be upset at their bigotry, hate, and lies. It’s okay to have and express these emotions, and you are not being irrational, crazy, oversensitive, or stupid.

The woman at the small boutique says she can’t afford to lose money “in this economy.” The nurse at the doctor’s office for my mom’s back complains that they’re in need of workers and that “everyone’s complaining about money, but no one wants to work!” The local McDonald’s line barely moves because there are barely any workers. I see a headline that says there’s an abnormally high amount of unhoused people in California, as if there’s a “normal” amount of unhoused people there can be. My sister wants a new house but can’t buy one because it’s all so expensive. A Wendy’s worker online complains about how everything is going up in price except their wages. All this is happening around me and I’m powerless to stop it. I don’t want to act like I have the secret that others are unable to see, but I can’t help but think everyone has been brainwashed until thinking we have to live like this. There just has to be a recession every ten years, there just has to be constantly changing gas prices, there just has to be bad seasons for buying a house. We have to deal with this as the price of freedom, we have no other choice. But I think we do have another choice, and I think even if there’s not answers to every question about how this ‘other choice’ would work, we have to try. We can’t live like this anymore. We just can’t. People are being killed by this.

i feel like for a lot of people, childhood is just… doing something that feels natural, the people around you getting extremely angry, not being able to defend yourself without more anger directed your way, and then being expected to forget about it and never mention it again 10 minutes later. And put like that… it’s easily understand as something an abuse victim would go through, but it’s just a general childhood experience. Or is it? Is it just me? I think it’s worse for neurodivergent kids but not exclusive. And I think most people forget how this felt as they age, and ultimately continue the cycle with their kids or others kids, but I just… never forgot. Yes I’m only 19 but I don’t think I should remember this well. How it felt. The confusion and sadness

I hope Stephen Hawking’s anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist politics aren’t erased from history, or obscured in our collective remembrance of him.