Dear Tomi,

I hope you take time to read this without any of your commentary, and just listen. Your clips on Facebook were something I’d watch just to laugh at. Your opinion was sharp and cutting to anyone who dare say something different. Your words focused on objects rather than people, actions rather than ideas, and you took things at face-value without looking beyond the façade of why.

Your Daily Show segment with Trevor Noah actually made me take you seriously. For once, I was the one who listened to your words. I got to see your side, which any seasoned journalist must do in order to get the whole story. I began to understand your words, your ideas, and even though I didn’t agree, I began to think about other views. It was a fantastic segment of worlds colliding and I respected you for taking the time to explain your side while remaining calm and poised in the face of opposing views.

Then you did a Final Thoughts - totally demolishing any respect I had growing for you. So let me give you a dose of your own medicine in hopes you expand your mind. People have been calling you “alt-princess” or the voice of conservatives, but all I see now is a girl hiding behind a party to scream your opinion to anyone who will listen. Your anger and so-called facts have given you an audience of riled republicans and people who tune in for a good laugh. You cannot say your opinion is for everyone when all you have done is use political ideas as a shield.

And what would this millennial know about adversity and debates? The one things that differs between you and I is that I take time to listen to the other side. I am from a small town and my family follows republican values. I am the odd one out. But the difference is that when my family and I get into a healthy debate, when I can see how they feel and they can see what I have learned from being out of town, we listen. After our spats, I don’t run to my “liberal” friends and tell them how wrong my family is, or how they’re hypocrites for their views. I don’t belittle their ideas, or call them cry babies, and they don’t call me names and tell me I am wrong for my views. And it’s not because they are my family. It’s because we respect each other’s sides. It’s why I can talk to my grandfather about Trump and the Dakota Access Pipelines without feeling like I did something wrong as much as he doesn’t think he's that odd one out. And we don’t go back to our groups and spew about what the other one have said.

You said you wanted a world where having an opposing opinion isn’t a bad thing, but how can we when you can go back to your studio and ram on Noah and his audiences for showing their opinion in contrast to yours? How can you say you’re not the bad guy, but treat people so poorly on such a grand scale?

You can have your opinions, and you can preach them with or without the sugar coating you say our generation needs. But at the end of the day, while people are having this conversation you say we need so badly, only one of us is left screaming in a room, while the rest of us are saying things worth listening too.

Those are my final thoughts, Tomi.