This is how it starts.
With fear.
Your boss tells you to scrub the word “diversity” out of all your emails and all your social media postings, even if it says “I want more than mint chocolate chip. Send me a diversity of Girl Scout cookies.”
It takes days, but you do it because you fear you would lose your job.
Then who would pay the mortgage, buy the medications?
Your boss is making you do this because he or she fears the government will cancel the contracts and the business will close.
You wonder what will be next. Erase “disabled” or “people of color” or “rural?”
Will they cancel your social media account? Close down your news sources? What will be the end result?
We have a good model, Nazi Germany in the 1930s. And you know how that ended.
So, make a sign and stand on a street corner. Send a protest postcard to the White House. Contact your congressional representatives. Tell them you fear the next step the government will take.
And the next.
And the next.
Tell them how the actions of the current administration are affecting you.
Lyn Muench
Port Angeles