TW: violence, hate crimes, sexual assault

So what the entire Internet seems to know at this point is that "The Daily Show’s" Trevor Noah just interviewed I’m-not-racist-sensation Tomi Lahren. Personally, I’ve been putting off watching the interview to spare myself the angry, white apologist, POC-have-no-right-to-complain-about-anything-ever-because-we-gave-them-their-stupid-rights-already rhetoric. As anyone can see, I’m not Lahren’s biggest fan.

But I figured I had to watch the interview if I want to call myself an open-minded liberal.

Now I wish I had left the door shut and swallowed the key.

This woman is something else.

Her favorite phrase seems to be “so-called-protestors.”

What the fuck do you call people who protest, Tomi???

The English language and Webster’s Dictionary like to call them protestors so I’m just gonna take their word for it.

And it’s pretty fucking funny that you keep bringing up the “complaining” that protestors are doing when you are literally making a career out of complaining on the Internet. You’re a glorified 4Chan thread with a nice camera and a Facebook account.

(Right down to commenting about Bill cheating on Hilary, which is just the stupidest way to get the last word in, dude. If you’re going to do it, say something useful, not a Yo Mama joke one of my middle-school-kids would use on me).

You say you look past Trump’s “pussy” comments because they don’t affect ‘your’ taxes or immigration. But what about the women being assaulted? Do they not matter because they have nothing to do with you?

I’m having a pretty hard time figuring out what does matter to you besides pointing out all the wrong ways people can bring attention to the injustices in their country (especially since you seem to think all the ways are wrong).

Oh, and by the way, calling attention to something worse going on somewhere else does not make the issues at home just disappear (no one was talking about Saudi Arabia, so whyyyyyy bring up Saudi Arabia? WHY????).

You’re right about your audience, though – they do largely come from the “fly-over” states. But why are you blaming the coasts? I’m from a coast (West Coast Best Coast). We have our own problems to worry about. California thinks about California; we’re not over here going “Gosh, New York is just so great. Why don’t we talk about them more?” Nah! Each state puts itself first. I’m sorry South Dakota isn’t getting the national spotlight you think it deserves.

And another thing (I’m going to try to really drive this home now):

BLACK LIVES MATTER IS NOT AND CAN NEVER BE THE NEW KKK.

We are not a hate group. We are not burning crosses on people’s lawns. We are not preaching to our children that people are lesser than us, less than human, or less than alive because of the color of their skin. We are not going out in black hooded cloaks and dragging people from their homes and their jobs and their families to string them up in trees, watch them choke, and then burn their bodies beyond recognition, dead or alive.

We are not the KKK. And for you to sit there and compare a movement built to spread the idea that a group of people are human and that their lives are worth something, to a movement built to spread the idea that that same group of people is more useful for target practice, is sickening.

“Not making yourself the victim” and not speaking up about any violence committed against you does NOT absolve that violence. It “emboldens” the people committing violence against you. If we didn’t protest, we’d be dead. So, please, finally answer Trevor’s question and tell me HOW Black people should protest if not by sit-in or riot or march or sitting in a corner in silence. Because at this point I don’t know what you want or believe in.

You’re 24 freakin’ years old. You have no experiences that even come close to relating to the stories you go on and on about. And you have nothing to call sympathy residing anywhere in your body.

So why am I sitting here listening to you make vapid, insensitive arguments on one of my favorite shows with one of my favorite people?

I like learning. I like seeing the other side of things. I like putting myself in other people’s shoes and coming to my own conclusions after hearing the whole story.

I don’t like shutting myself in a room with a camera after watching FOX News and talking to my “Long Live the Confederacy” commenters about an issue I know nothing about then spewing a hateful spiel to post on Facebook and get tons of likes.

But you do.

And I don’t get it.

You’re intelligent. People to listen to you. You’re capable of doing great things.

But you’re hateful. You’re willfully blind. You’re perpetuating a system of spreading bigotry and stewing in racism that this country was built on and is gladly evolving. You’re the new paperboy, Tomi. Congrats on your high-tech “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” It’s really quite impressive.

I wish you would do more with it.

You could start a revolution.

And I’d pat you on the back if I wasn’t so sure your army would be lynching me before I could even lift a finger.