To the weak and spineless minority of millennials,

Well, you’ve done it. You’ve made fools out of all of us.

Not a week goes by without you making the rest of us look ridiculous. With your silly demands for protection against opposing viewpoints and cold hard truths (safe spaces), your overreactions to slights (microaggressions), and your perpetual victimhood, you make the rest of us millennials look terrible.

For the last month, all we heard about was Mizzou. We saw a group of whiny children carry out tantrums across that campus. Their “fear” for the life of a rich kid on a self-imposed hunger strike. The worry of the KKK on campus, which actually didn’t happen. Their hypocrisy of physically preventing a journalist to practice his first amendment rights while protesting under the protection of that same amendment. These silly protesters were a pathetic sight to behold.

But the worst was yet to come. In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, most rational people reacted with grief. But the special snowflakes of Mizzou and their allies reacted with fury. "How dare the rest of the world care that over 100 people were killed in Paris? We had to deal with a poop swastika. How dare dead Europeans try and overshadow our suffering?" And just like that, Ghoulish hastags like #FuckParis popped up across social media as these poor souls tried to take back their victim status from the injured and the dead.

I would like to say this is nothing new, but in reality, it has become a modern part of our society. We have Anita Sarkeesian on YouTube making poorly researched videos lecturing the male dominated industry of video games on how terrible it is for women. We have third wave feminists attempting to insult the evil patriarchy through social media (#MasculinitySoFragile) while crying foul because a scientist wore a “sexist” shirt. We have social justice warriors drawing new dividing lines every day, based on everything from class to race. Everybody is a victim and the world owes them for that.

It’s a shame to see what we’ve become. America used to be a place where people would kick ass and take names. Our forebears fought two world wars, survived a depression, and toppled a Soviet superpower. Many of them dealt with various problems, from poverty to prejudice. They took it on the chin and powered through. Nowadays, one wrong look and a millennial can end up in tears. Everything offends everyone.

Now, this isn’t all millennials. But the few rotten apples are loud enough to make us all look bad. Toughen up. There’s no safe space out in the world. It’s a crucible. Either you survive the elements or you fizzle away.

With love,
Al