I’ve seen a lot of articles, think pieces and strongly-worded social media posts complaining about how them (or us) millennials are too darn sensitive. We can barely look out the window without being triggered by a stiff breeze! Lord, just thinking of a Trump sticker is giving me the vapors!

To anyone who’s reading, if you see one of those headlines and want to comment about PC culture, please consider walking away from your keyboard. Go outside. Listen to the birds and feel the sunshine and really think about if your opinion is necessary or even wanted.

Because if you truly think that college students are oversensitive whiners, you need to look in a mirror.

Let’s go back to where this comes from. In the '90s, the term “political correctness” became a conservative buzzword to describe the so-called liberal doctrine being taught in college. It exists as a reactionary pejorative against progressive ideas. It has nothing to do with being “oversensitive."

I want you to really think about the last time PC culture silenced brave speech. The last time you wanted to say something before you were censored by the PC police. Not when you saw some headline on Facebook, but a thing that you specifically wanted to say.

I’m going to bet it was an opinion about a marginalized group that you don’t belong to. Be it affirmative action or gender pronouns, you have an opinion that you need to tell anyone who’ll listen.

Once again, I invite you to take a step back and have some perspective. Was your opinion warranted, or was it ignorant, bigoted bullshit? Does it add to the discourse, or was it ignorant, bigoted bullshit?

Of course, you don’t think it’s ignorant, bigoted bullshit. You think you’re telling it like it is.

But that’s the most insidious belief of the anti-PC crowd — that deep down everyone agrees with them, only they’re too afraid to admit it. But you’re not telling it like it is. You’re telling it like how you think it is.

You don’t care about free speech. You think you do, but you don’t. If you did, you would consider new perspectives, a healthy part of discourse and communication. But you don’t care about communication or understanding. You just want to spout your opinions without consequence.

For such a proponent of “free speech," you sure don’t like ideas that challenge you. Not only that, it seems like you’re trying to suppress ideas that disrupt the status quo by labeling them and dismissing them. If you are so genuinely disturbed by the fact that you have to deal with increasingly disparate or new ideas, you’re the one who can’t deal with the real world.

You have a right to free unburdened speech. That means you can say what you want, but that also means everyone else has the right to call you out.

You also have a right to remain silent, so for the love of god, please shut up about PC culture.