I know I get smart with you guys a lot, but I really want you guys to read through this and try to understand what I’m saying. Social justice really makes me sad for several reasons that I’m going to get into. I remember reading about the civil rights movement and thinking about how brave those people were to face circumstances that were stacked against them, but they did it. I also remember reading about feminism and the women’s suffrage movement of the early 20th century thinking about how brave they were for facing their circumstances as well as being proud of being a woman and being grateful that someone faught for me to have rights. Now I look at these movements and I get really sad because of what they’ve become, the anti racist movement instead of promoting racial equality is now trying to get minorities more and more special treatment, instead of empowering them to work hard for what they want, they just try to guilt the rest of us into making more programs to get them advantages that some of them just don’t need. Not only that, but it promotes racism against white people as well as a level of discomfort for them when they are around people of color. Instead of the anti racism movements going by Martin Luther King’s idea of what race relations should be, they just make white people feel guilty for being born with a different skin color. They make us feel guilty for what our ancestors did or even just people that looked like them. They make it so schools withhold certain information that would take some of the guilt away from white people. For example, the fact that the Arab traders that sold the African slaves to the Europeans, also had white slaves or that most white people at the time of the Civil Rights Movement, wanted black people have equal rights and then all of the segregation was really only going on in the south in the North didn’t really have much prejudice at all. Or even that the noble Native Americans that are in our history books, raped women and enslaved white people. It’s really sad that they make it so all white people have to feel so guilty for all there ancestors crimes or the crimes of other people that looked like them. Not all of us have European ancestors. An entire race shouldn’t be held responsible for something that only some of them did because, if that were the case every race would forever have to deal with the guilt of their ancestors. not all white people are racist, you don’t know what they are thinking or what their lives are like, please stop trying to pretend that you know what they’re thinking and stop trying to demonize them. You’re setting us back by doing this . Because, not only does this movement promote racism against white people and intense white guilt, but it encourages white people to be afraid of talking to somebody of another race. As a white person myself, every time I meet somebody, particularly of another race, I get afraid that they’re going to hate me because of my race. I get afraid that they’re going to accuse me of being a racist or that they’re going to think I am committing microaggressions against them by just having a normal conversation with them. As well as thinking that I have some sort of unconscious bias that just isn’t there I’m also friends with a lot of people of different races and ethnicities and I get paranoid about either offending them or seeing them get indoctrinated into the cult of social justice. It all makes me so paranoid because I see how prevalent it is. Two of my best friends are black and one of them happens to be one of the only people that I’ve ever let myself get emotionally close to. I would be crushed if he started looking at me the way that you guys do, he’s had such an amazing impact on my life and has helped me through so much! If it weren’t for him, I don’t know where I would be. Feminism also scares and frustrates me in similar ways. As I mentioned before, I used to look at feminism with a sense of pride and agreement because I thought that all feminism ever wanted was equality for women and obviously, that’s a great cause! But watching it evolve into something different over the past few years has also been painful for me. It used to be a movement that was meant to empower women in to show them that they can do things just as well as a man can and that they didn’t need to be treated any differently! Now we have all these crazy feminists giving all women a bad name! They make all meant to be scary sexist pigs and that just isn’t fair! I have two brothers that I know would be very respectful to a woman and are very deserving of a good one. This is not the type of world that I want them to live in, and it’s not the type of world that I want to live in either. I want to live in a world where I know my brothers will have an equal opportunity to get what they want in life and where I can prove that I don’t need any special treatment because I’m a woman. I am a strong independent woman and I want to be treated as such. My dream has always been to go into the STEM fields and I don’t want to get into stem because of some quota of affirmative action program, I want to get into stem because my boss sees my credentials and thinks I’m worthy of the job. I don’t want people have to walk on eggshells around me because they think everything is going to offend me either, and I’m aware that you majority of women in the West want the same thing. But the minority that are feminist is ruining our chance at true equality. I don’t want that to happen! I do have a lot of disadvantages in life because of other reasons, but I want to work my way up by myself to prove that those disadvantages don’t matter. I want you all to be able to do the same thing, regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation or anything else! I’m really not a judgmental person, even though I’m white or whatever. The truth is, if we could look past our differences, I'm sure we would all get along because I judge you on your character and not your looks or differences. The truth is, I don't want to fight with you guys the way that I do, I wish that we could all just get along. I just can't stand to see the way this is affecting our society anymore, so I wanted to take a stand against it, which I am doing and will continue to do. I just want you to know that is nothing to do with your race gender sexuality ability level or anything like that, it all has to do with how you carry yourself and how you judge other people. So if you take anything from this letter, I hope that it is but it's wrong to hate an entire demographic or something a part of it did. Men have mistreated me in my life but still have women, so it's not fair to hate hey demographic for something one or a few people did. I wish you all the best in all that you do. Sincerely, Blair the egalitarian.