I am losing it big time on FB. So many fucking racists, idiots that I've known

[Maraya1969]

all my life and I cannot be civil with them anymore. I'm not calling them names like "Idiot" and "moron" when I post studies about how low their IQ's are but that doesn't matter. I'm telling them they are idiots.

But I'm not feeling so great about myself. And I am just angry and want to scream at them. I want to get off FB altogether but there are people who I really need to see.



These people lack the fucking intellectual capacity to know that they are stupid! How stupid is that?

I need to get a grip.

Who has overcome this?

Plus I am a big hypocrite too because my spiritual beliefs are against attacking people! I am like Buddhist and Hindu and everything in between and I'm acting like ................ I don't know

[Cattledog]

1. Simple, unfriend or block them.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

2. Try stepping away from all social media for 24 hours.

I do that 2 or 3 times a week with television news. It’s helpful for me

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. leaving FB and Twitter last year was one of the best things I've

done. They are toxic.

[hedda_foil]

4. Lock down your account. Block the idiots. Mark your family and true friends as a group.

Set your account so you only hear from the people you want to hear from. Go to Facebook settings to do it. If you don't get their instructions Google your question and you'll find loads of step by simple step aswers.

[calguy]

5. It's only going to get worse.

Social media is trump's ace in the hole. With the help of Putin they mastered the space last time. Let's hope we've learned a few things since then.

[live love laugh]

6. 🤣🤣 I don't think they're going to agree that they're SAF

(Stupid As Fuck).

However I empathize wholeheartedly as I spend lots of time engaging right wing idiots. I make it fun though by using their own stupid tactics against them.

[babylonsister]

7. Block or unfriend. Why bother

if all they're doing is making you angry?

Your blood pressure will go down!

[Skittles]

8. I don't understand why anyone puts up with racist assholes

I don't.

[Tipperary]

14. Yep.

This whole Facebook fighting thing is baffling to me.

[Skittles]

15. yeah

seriously, WTF, I would not care WHO it was, I just do NOT TOLERATE RACISM, NOT AT ALL

[JustGene]

9. Facebook is toxic

To a lot of people.
My view is that when you lose the ability to "read" someone (in person)
you also lose the emotions that are projected, therefore
you get a broken social interaction ie:Facebook
is not "socializing" only communicating
many times poorly

[grantcart]

10. I overcame it

Never joined FB

Seems like a colossal waste of time to me.

[LiberalBrooke]

20. I too never have been on Facebook.

I won’t even let others complain to me about all of The bigoted posts on there. My answer is the same. Delete your account, you will feel better.

[herding cats]

11. Unfriend them.

Let them go, kick them to the curb after letting them know why if you need closure. Seriously, they're not worth your time. That's how I've dealt with racist until the point I have zero left in my social media nucleus. It's a much more pleasant world. They're not 'fixable' because they literally feed of each other's hate.

Let them go, and spend 30 seconds doing a breathing exercise. Then, focus on what needs to be done which you can have an impact on, and then begin implementing a plan of action and follow through.

You'll feel better, I promise you this is a fact.

[barbtries]

12. I have some loved ones on fb

who are as you describe. If they post bullshit I hide the post. If they come into my thread and post bullshit I delete their post. As a matter of fact I just posted about a tiff with my only remaining bona fide lifelong friend. Today I posted food porn and she asked me how I seasoned my cornish game hens. We both know we're not going there again.

I was actually thinking about posting about it as a follow up to the thread from the other day, when I was pretty upset over it.



I only manage fb by blocking people so I don't get a lot of random crap. My fb friends are from my local Democratic party, family, or old friends. And friends from work.

Sorry you're going through this. I keep on posting about politics, trump, racism, etc, because i want to raise consciousness. I have been unfollowed and unfriended, and that's okay. I also had to block a good friend's son because he was stalking me. When he responded on the anniversary of Sandy Hook that it was a hoax that was the final straw for me. I've known him since he was born and we can only speculate what turned him into a RWNJ.

[roamer65]

13. Block them.

I do it here. Block is a wonderful social media tool.

[Maraya1969]

16. Thank you everyone. I am going over there now and blocking a whole bunch of people

[brer cat]

17. Block their posts.

They are not worth the aggravation.

[Maraya1969]

18. Just blocked about 12 people. I feel so much better! A lot of them aren't even

friends. They are idiot friends of friends.

Thank you everyone!

[2naSalit]

19. I don't get why anyone would continue

to use fb knowing that the platform and its owners are our enemy.

[Maraya1969]

28. There are an awful lot of progressive causes on FB.

[Flaleftist]

21. The mute option is useful.

[oswaldactedalone]

22. Just get the hell off Facebook

Nothing good goes on there. I tried it 10 years ago, saw the mental illness of people I knew as a kid, and abandoned it.

[2naSalit]

29. +1

[Staph]

23. I was responding on Facebook to a friend's comments about the protests.

The friend would fit in on DU very nicely.

But there were some others who simply didn't understand why anarchists were rioting in the streets. I told one former co-worker that she would feel much better if she stopped watching Fox News, that it would lower her blood pressure immensely.

She went ballistic. And all I could think was that she knows that Fox News is lying to her. She doesn't want to be reminded that she's being duped and that she looks racist.

I am trying oh so very hard not to be smug. No, really!

[Maraya1969]

27. Oh I hear you. Yesterday my brother's SIL posted a New York Post article

about how everyone was lying about Trump and how it was so unfair! And then I see my SIL "Liking" the post along with her mother and I was off!

All three are now blocked.

[JI7]

24. WHy do you need to see these people on Facebook ?

[Maraya1969]

25. It's not those people that I want to connect with. But it is like a damn drug

I start reading down my page and most of the people are Democrats and post progressive things. But they have friends, and I still have friends that post stupid ignorant shit underneath.

But I have gone over like everyone said and blocked a bunch of people, including my brother and sis in law and some other relatives.

But people from my own group that I love and appreciate also post there and I also follow some spiritual teachers, (Ha!) and there are always very good post there that help me. I'm such a hypocrite though because I go to these wonderful spiritual pages and let go of everything and love love love and then I go back to my page and want to blow something up!

But I'm better now thanks to DU. This place is a Godsend!

[Steelrolled]

30. I overcame it.

I did not delete my account because on occasion someone will ask me to check something out on Facebook (a few times a year). But I stopped participating years ago. Not long after that I stopped cable news. I feel better now, and looking back I clearly see how destructive those things are.

[scarletwoman]

31. Welp, all I can say is I'm SO glad I never dove into that cauldron of toxic slug in the first place.

You could not pay me to go on Facebook.

Most especially, why would any progressive-minded person want to add to Zuck's bottom line?

[canetoad]

32. Stop engaging with them

[BlueTsunami2018]

33. This motherfucker has ruined so many friendships and families.

And social media is a big catalyst for it. My family has an agreement that we can go at it on Facebook, even heatedly and disrespectfully, but in person it’s business as usual. Facebook isn’t the real world even though these things are happening in the real world.

I know many people say to cut them off or that they couldn’t possibly be civil to someone who supports the asshole but I’m not going to let him ruin my family or my friendships, I just won’t. That’s what they want, fuck that. I can’t forget that my parents were the best anyone could ask for, that have done everything for me and still will, no matter what. I won’t forget that my brother is my best friend, Hell, there’s no one I’d rather talk about this stuff with. I won’t forget that a lot of these dudes I argue with are people I grew up with, had many great experiences with, played sports with, played in bands with, partied with, fought back to back with or who helped my family without hesitation. I have people I’ve never met in person on there who are on the right and have gone at it heavily with on issues. We don’t agree on a lot of stuff politically but we’ve been doing it for ten years and more in some cases, I consider them friends, I care about them. I see their normal family posts, we’re not different. And honestly, they were the first people to privately message me to ask if my family was ok during these riots.

They’re compete assholes politically and I know they feel the same way about me but that isn’t the entirety of a person’s make up. I know they’re good people by the way they act outside of the political arena. I’ve seen their acts of kindness, of charity, of goodwill to others regardless of skin color or sexuality or whatever. That’s what makes their support of this guy so puzzling and inexplicable to me. They’re better than him and his vitriolic rhetoric, way better. I just refuse to let this clown make me turn my back on people that I love. That’s how fascism works, divide and conquer, and I won’t play that game. And I believe they wouldn’t turn their back on me, not for some two bit carnival barker, if it came down to a choice between me and him.

You have to have an open dialogue with people you disagree with if there is ever going to be an opportunity to come together. There always a chance that a point might get through to help change a view, however slim that possibility may seem. If you cut yourself off and simply live in your own bubble with only people who believe exactly as you do, there’s little room for growth and no chance at all.

I don’t know, maybe I’m being naive and overly optimistic. Maybe I’m a “traitor” or “not a real liberal” because I refuse to cut people out of my life over this but that’s bullshit. My core values do not change because of it. I’m always going to be anti-racist, anti-fascist, pro-worker, pro-equality, on the side of LGBTQ, pro-democracy and most importantly pro-America as it was promised where all people are created equal. We’ve come a long way but there’s obviously still far to go. I’ll always be on the side of pushing us to that place.

[Maraya1969]

34. Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate your view.

[maxsolomon]

35. Don't call them names. Ask leading questions until THEY lose it.

"Where did you learn this?" is often enough.

Or snooze/block/unfriend.

Either way.

[JCMach1]

36. Cleared most out in 2012 and 2008...

So only had to drop 1 or2