Dear Jose,
I’m sorry your laptop was stolen. While you are right to be angry about it, I don’t believe you are right to condemn 3000+ people (minus your “friends”) for the act of one. All the more so, I don’t believe you are right to weave racism, sexism, socio-economic discrimination and prejudices of all sorts into your written condemnation.
“Rich people,” as a group, do not deserve your blanket hatred. How can you lump all people together? And why is it that “students of color” get the qualifier of “who are economically privileged” but “white students” stand alone in your postscript, as if all people with white skin are economically privileged?
To give you some context, I am a white female from the New England area attending a prestigious university called Wesleyan thanks to heaps of financial aid and governmental loans, and I have never had a laptop stolen from me because I don’t own a laptop—nor have I ever—largely because I felt it would have been an excessive financial burden on my family. So guess what? All us “white kids” aren’t the same after all.
Jose, I am both appalled and insulted by your shocking generalizations and judgments along with your flagrant racial and socio-economic discrimination, and I would be willing to bet my lunch (not money—since I don’t have any) that most of the Wesleyan community shares my feelings if they happened to stumble upon your poorly-written, expletive-saturated Wespeak. But I am willing to forgive you, because I refuse to reciprocate the hatred you feel towards humanity.
Sincerely,
Ashley
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