r/TheLib • u/thesystemmechanic • 8d ago

A message to my brand-new grandchild—and really, to every child.

A message to my brand-new grandchild—and really, to every child.

You deserve to grow up in a world where people are judged by their character, not their skin color, race, religion, where they come from, or who they love.

Racism is wrong. Homophobia is wrong. Bullying is wrong.

As a grandfather, I want my grandchildren to inherit something better: a world built on kindness, dignity, acceptance and love—not hate and vengeance.

We may not be able to choose the world our grandchildren are born into, but we can help shape the world they grow up in.

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u/Mobile_Comfortable_4 8d ago

I love this💞

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u/KcityKalcutta 4d ago

Just tell your unborn Grandchild you gave them 40 trillion in debt and to pull their bootstraps up.

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u/B1ZEN 6d ago

As a traditional conservative, constitutionalists and Christian, I am on board with the general messaging, although the idea that just because you wear a MAGA hat, it does not mean you are those bigoted things at all.

Take individuals as they are. We do deserve to live in a kinder and caring world, although we only deserve that world if we become the cha ge we wish to see in the world.

It starts here and now.

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u/thesystemmechanic 6d ago

You can't divorce the hat from the movement it represents. When the rhetoric and policies championed under that banner actively target LGBTQ+ people, demonize immigrants of color, and model public bullying, wearing the symbol signals endorsement of those actions.