Mizzou Student: The Real World Doesn't Care About Your Feelings
The following is an open letter from a Missouri student received by The Point.
I am a concerned student at the University of Missouri. I am concerned about the future of my university. I am concerned about the future of my generation. I am concerned about the future of my country. While I am a concerned student, I am not a concerned student of the #ConcernedStudent1950 organization. I am a concerned student of the silent variety. Brace yourselves, Mizzou: I am white, male, and conservative. I don’t have white guilt and I am not sorry for it. I don’t care if you’re white, black, Hispanic, gay, or straight. That’s all your business, and I’m not concerned with labeling people. In my eyes, we are all members of the human race and are no better than any other segment of the human race. Go ahead and put down your protest signs and silence your POWER chants. Let’s all try to be human for a brief moment.
We are a university that has brought racial justice to the forefront of discussion. We have championed the term safe space. We have paraded around with protests and demands to the point that we are the laughing stock of the country. That’s right, Mizzou. We are the undisputed heavyweight PC champions, and the real world is laughing at us. Honestly, I don’t blame them. I would be too if I weren’t associated with this disaster of a university. But I can’t laugh because I’m ashamed. I’m ashamed that my generation is full of fragile sheep.
I often ask questions (silently, of course) in my head to these sheep. Why does everything have to be fair? Why do your feelings matter so much? Why can’t you get over your fragility and deal with the hand you’ve been dealt? It does no good to actually ask these questions, of course. You’ll get a long lecture filled with spotty logic, references to systematic oppression, and something along the lines of “you don’t understand your privilege.”
People will undoubtedly see this letter and share it on Facebook with a caption saying something to the effect of “People like this man are the reason we have a problem.” Consider the source when you see this caption. These people will then go back to their protest stand, smoke a joint, and go to fairytale land with dreams about free college, income equality, market demand for liberal arts professions, and whatever else the sheep dream about.
Enjoy your four years here, #ConcernedStudents (even though you’ll probably make it 5 or 6 by the time you’re actually done). One day, you’ll graduate and enter the job market with the rest of us. I’ve heard it’s hard out there in the real world. Hopefully you gained a marketable degree or some technical skills while you were busy destroying our reputation. Last time I checked, ideology doesn’t pay the bills. Good luck outside the safe space.
I won’t sign my name to this letter because I have no aspirations of making a name for myself. I’m a simple accounting student who has kept his head down and worked his tail off for four years. The disparaging comments I would receive from the sheep would do nothing but discourage the joy of my last days at Mizzou. My joy is not worth your feelings. I’m not concerned with your fragile feelings, and the real world isn’t either
Sincerely,
A Concerned Mizzou Student