On Tuesday, May 22, Tomi Lahren was verbally and physically attacked at a restaurant in Minneapolis. As she was walking by a table leaving the restaurant, an unnamed woman threw her water at Tomi and proceeded to verbally attack her in front of the general public and her parents. While Tomi has taken the support and the hate very well in the 24 hours after the incident occurred, it is sad to say that occurrences like this do not surprise me.

In her own interview on Fox News about the incident, Tomi also said that it was something that she was used to.

There is a problem that this is normal. That in interviews and on Twitter, people have repeatedly had to say that it is okay this happened because they are used to it. Why are we used to be being harassed for having different political views and being outspoken about it?

It is one thing to disagree with someone on an issue and how the government is run. It is a completely different one to harass someone for their opposing views. Civil dialogue has seemed to almost completely disappear from our everyday discourse, and instead, Twitter fights and lashing out have replaced how we deal with others who disagree with us.

Just this past week, the founder of Lone Conservative, Kassy Dillon was booed as she walked across the stage at her graduation. A moment that should have been happy and celebrated was disrupted by people who were too ignorant to care that Kassy had just graduated from college with Honors and a successful organization that she had started by herself.

We talk so often about how we need to be tolerant of others and accept that not everyone agrees on everything. Yet, when it comes down to accepting this, people struggle to just let it go. We need to begin pushing for civil dialogue through remaining calm in discussions, not insulting others during the discussion, and reminding people that everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Kathy Griffin, a woman not many on the Right respects, even gave her two cents on the issue surrounding Tomi, defending her and saying what happened at the restaurant was disrespectful. Someone who has repeatedly been called out by Tomi came to defend her despite their differences because what happened as wrong.

Why can't we as a society see that these incidents have begun to go too far? How can we expect to accomplish anything in our country if we can't even stand being in the same room as someone who has different views as us?

Having different views is what makes our country so amazing. Our amendments and rights to free speech and freedom of thought cannot be forgotten if we want society to advance for the betterment of all people.