If you get on social media at all...you know who Tomi Lahren is. The radically conservative, blonde-haired, 23-year-old is currently the host for "Tomi" on TheBlaze. Her "final thoughts" are shared on Facebook by the thousands each day. She speaks her mind, and sports a "I don't give a flying flip" attitude. For that, many respect her. Even I. Or, at least, I did.

I respect the fact that she has the courage to say what she feels "needs" to be said. I respect her early success. I respect that she has sculpted such a strong public identity for herself, and that it wasn't based off of scandals or her looks. She has built her life on her journalism alone, while incorporating herself, ideas, and values into her work. As an Odyssey Content Creator, I respect this on so many levels. The world of journalism is changing, and she's taking it by the horns.

I can appreciate a strong and successful young woman. I can also appreciate a young journalist who has made a name for herself. I cannot, however, appreciate someone who uses that power and success to do more harm than good.

Lately, it feels like each video of hers gets more and more absurd. There was a point in time where I enjoyed watching her videos, despite disagreeing with a majority of them, because it gave me a differing opinion on American and political issues. An opinion that I knew would naturally be much different than my own. An opinion that could show me the "other" side-- but now? With every new video she posts, I get more and more concerned.

When I come across one of Tomi's videos, I am always enticed to click on it. I'll admit, this is partially because I want to hear what ridiculous thing she is going to say next. The primary reason, however, is because I value other people's opinions. Even if I disagree with someone, I know that their opinions and voices matter. I know that I can learn from them and become a more understanding person by trying to really hear what the "other side" has to say. Since Tomi is extremely conservative, I tend to disagree with a lot of her statements. Despite that, I used to appreciated her videos and opinions.

With each video I have watched, I have become more and more aware that Tomi does not hold this same respect for others or for the "other side's" opinion. She seems to think that her radically conservative ways are the only way. She seems to think that the world should only run the way Tomi would run it. And for anyone who disagrees with her? They're "whining" or "lazy Millennials."

Funny though, isn't she a millennial who has, no offense, made a career off of "whining" (and yelling) in videos about the things she does not agree with? Yet anyone who disagrees with her is lazy or ignorant? That's no way to convince people of your opinions, Tomi.

Tomi has made her career off of fueling the fires that social media and news outlets begin. She takes bits and pieces of stories to twist them for her own agenda and "message." She's bending the truth and fueling stereotypes and stigmas. That is not what real journalism is about.

Journalism is about spreading the truth and educating the world on current events, social and economical issues, and so much more. While Tomi is definitely entitled to her own journalistic approach, I think it's still important to ensure that journalists are being held accountable for telling the entire truth. Not just parts of it. Adding your own opinions and emotions into journalism can be powerful and moving. However, when your "opinions" turn into rude sarcasm, stereotypes, and generalizations...it's time to take a step back and look in the mirror. It's time re-evaluate your journalistic approach.

Tomi, you're intelligent, beautiful, and a well educated woman. You are better than the recent videos you have been making. The rudeness, sarcasm, and yelling may earn you views and fame. It may even bring you money, or give you acknowledgment. I'd like to remind you, though, that words have consequences. You're teaching tons of conservative girls that it's OK to be mean to people if they're a democrat or think differently than you. You're teaching people that it's okay to be mean to others in the name of journalism and politics, simply because you have the freedom to do so. You're fueling the media's fires with your words instead of truly investigating the events or situation entirely. You take your quick-to-judge opinions and find whatever "proof" you can to support that. Ignoring the evidence that works against you. That's not a form of journalism. That's a form of dishonesty.

Tomi recently attacked Jesse Williams for his Black Lives Matter speech at the BET awards, and this video really opened my eyes to her motives and message. She bashed the celebrity for making an "anti-white" or "anti-police" speech, but that is not what I heard at all. I heard a successful black male sticking up for the young men and women who are being beaten and brutalized on the streets by police every day. I heard the voice of a man who cares about his people and wanted to empower and uplift them. Tomi turned his speech into a "blacks are better than whites" power hungry speech and that's not at all what Williams was saying.

President Barack Obama explained it best: "When people say that 'Black Lives Matter,' that doesn't mean 'Blue Lives' don't matter."

She also attacked him for using his award speech as an agenda to "spread war on law enforcement." She never once mentioned why he was winning the award though -- which was mostly for his work with 'Black Lives Matter'. I'm sorry, but if that is what he won the award for, can you blame him for speaking about it at the awards ceremony? I am sure that is what anyone else in his shoes would have done. If he had won the award for feeding the homeless, he'd speak about poverty in his acceptance speech. That's how these things work.

The most disgusting part of this response video, though, was about the color of his skin directly. She commented on the fact that Jesse is half white, and asked her viewers to "ponder" if that meant he was "half racist." Really, Tomi? Since when does being mixed, make you a watered down version of yourself? If he is half black, he is still black. He does not lose his credibility or a part of his identity because someone in his family knew that love is much deeper than skin. That was a low blow, Tomi, and you lost a lot of my respect for this.

She also recently made a video in regards to the Baton Rouge shooting of Alton Sterling. She used her platform to speak ill of the dead and bash him for his previous crimes. Whether they are true or not, did it really need to be said? Did the officers know all of this while they were firing a bullet into his chest? Or did they use that information to lighten the blow that Baton Rouge law enforcement were going to be facing? To make the media believe that he was a bad man who 'had what was coming' to him? To push our minds away from the real issue of law enforcement's accountability to protocols?

Tomi also used this video to say that the Alton Sterling case is, "not for the court of public opinion to decide," and that it is for the Justice Department to decide. She explained that this "isn't something a sketchy cell phone video" should decide, that again, it's for the Justice Department to decide. At first, I agreed. Until I started thinking about all of the things she was ignoring. She described the events depicted in only one of the videos that have been released of the incident. She completely ignored the video that proved Sterling's gun was pulled out of his pocket after being shot by the police officers. That his right arm that she claimed was not visible was indeed visible and empty in the second video. She said things like, "of course" he resisted arrest, and other subtle hints of social stigmas. She was literally screaming her biased and unreliable opinions into the camera, while telling everyone else that it's not their place to assume what happened. Sounds like the pot is calling the kettle black, to me.

Perhaps the most comical part of her Alton Sterling video was when she declared that, "this is how the law works. It's the same law that let Hillary Clinton off of the hook yesterday. That's how this thing works." I'm sorry, Tomi, but isn't that just a reason for us to doubt the investigation further? That those in law enforcement, and our political leaders, get off with a slap on the wrist every day? That cases, such as this one, are never taken seriously?

After rattling out every bad thing the man has ever done, she concluded her video by saying, "If you grieve the loss of Alton Sterling, I'm with you. But do it based off of what you know, not what you think you know."

Well, Tomi, I encourage you to do the same.

"Those are my final thoughts. God bless, and take care."