Editor,

I have lived on Whidbey Island for 41 years. My, oh my, how things have changed.

Social media is the new bully.

I’ve been shopping at Bayview Farm and Garden since its doors opened, and my how has it changed. I don’t know what happened to doing the right thing and leaving it alone. Why do you have to post and let everyone know what you’re doing, donating, helping and what your thoughts are? Do you need to get patted on the back? Do you need to let everybody know what’s going on in your noodle?

If that’s the case, maybe you should leave it all alone and let someone who makes a difference donate, not cause more anguish for the way you feel about donating and the stipulation on how you are going to donate.

How you received backlash for your post is how you make me feel about what I can and cannot wear, ie a MAGA hat. The reason why I even have money to go into the nursery and buy pretty flowers and support or local business is because of our economy. I am working and making money.

It’s that simple, the more money we make the more money we have to spend. I don’t have to go to Walmart and buy the cheap crap from China. I can actually shop local and help my local community and spend a little more money.

So, that MAGA hat, I wear it with pride. I don’t understand zero tolerance when yourself put a stipulation on what somebody cannot wear in its own community. That’s not zero tolerance. That’s what this movement is about. No judging. Do you want to donate something do it silently go to bed at night and sleep well.

You don’t need a pat on the back to do the right thing. Nobody deserves to be bullied towards you or towards me. So if you have something to post, post a good sale, not a thought.

Julie Kinskie

Clinton