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Struggles of Being a White Conservative Girl

Check your liberal privilege.

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With all the crazy extreme views that seem to be occupying the news and conversations everywhere, especially on college campuses, it is harder now than ever to be a white conservative girl. Don't take it as me playing the victim card either because it is actually something that helps me push forward.

As I sit in my most liberal professor's class, who prefers to be called by his first name (which goes against all of my traditional values in a classroom), I have ideas of socialism and black feminism shoved down my throat. When I switched universities I never knew how out of touch people could be in a city. Just because Denver is a metropolis, doesn't mean that people don't blindly follow like a lot of the United States. If anything, I think they do it more because of the constant need for being trendy. Look, I am a trendy gal but when are old fashioned values and respect going to come back in style? No offense to Antifa, (and yes it is a hate group), but you are not the only "minority" out there. I, the white girl am now a minority, especially in thought.

I am over being told I need to have a safe space.

I am over being told to feel bad for people who aren't as fortunate.

I am over being silenced.

Here is the truth, it sucks being a conservative white girl, there are a hell of a lot of stereotypes put on us that just simply aren't true. I would say the majority of us are not white supremacists. Fact is, you're being ignorant by putting that label on us without getting to know the facts on how we feel about specific issues that are not even close to being about race. So next time a liberal of any background asks me to silence my white girl privilege my response will be...


Stop living in your liberal narrow-minded bubble.

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