I think I put my foot in it! You can to!

[Auntie Bush]

I've been getting many nasty, hateful, predigest, racist emails from ReThug family and friends and I finally had enough! Sooo, after getting one that was a full out attack on Muslims (because they think Obama is Muslim) I sent an email (I usually ignore or just comment to the sender) to the whole list of people who forward this stuff...must have been about 50. The email they sent said horrible things about Muslims and if I didn't forward this message to everyone I know...insinuated I was a Muslim or at least a sympathizer!

Here's, my email....

"Well I guess I'm a Muslim, (subject line)

because I would never send out such hateful, trashy emails. You ALL should be ashamed of yourselves!! This email and ALL the others "you people" send around the internet are proof that some Muslim's are less hateful than some Americans!

Why don't you all forward emails about just how Romney and Ryan plans to fix this economy?
I'll tell you why................because you have no idea.....................NEITHER DOES HE !!

I don't mind a good healthy exchange of ideas, articles, cartoons and even taunts...but I can't stand HATE and bigoted email... and neither should you!....It isn't the American way!"

I say I put my foot in it because now I'm getting replies to this email and I can tell you they aren't pretty or polite or nice...in fact a couple were down right hateful! I have enraged a lion!

However, happily I did get a couple that said they agree with me. I dread getting my email now. My letter went to two of my ReThug brothers who's names were on the list. So far they haven't commented and they usually forward several of those nasty emails a day. I have a strong feeling I won't be hearing from them for awhile. I do love them and hope I haven't alienated them. Other than their political views they are really very nice and generous people. I don't know how the hell they can be ReThugs!!!

In spite of this I say you can do it too! If we don't just ignore those emails but send back what you think of it to the WHOLE list we can cut down on this type of hate mail that is also mostly full of LIES. I usually check them out with Snoops and tell my brother it was untrue. But, from now on I'll forward it to ALL those others on the list...no matter how hateful they get. Those people need to be stopped!

[livetohike]

1. Good for you! I've done that before and have lost "friends" because of it.

There is no cure for stupid, but we can try.

[Skidmore]

2. WORD!

[mnhtnbb]

3. I eventually ended up blocking my SIL e-mails in 2008 for precisely the same reasons.

She kept sending me shit and shit and more shit. I would politely tell her
how to fact check and where to go to do it. One of her e-mails I finally
had enough and hit reply all and really gave her hell. Well, one of HER
defenders on the e-mail list fired back and told me how inappropriate I was
to do this to her 'friend'. Fuck off, bitch, she's my SIL and I've put up with
her for the last 30 + years and I've had enough!

I still have her blocked...and she's not a friend on fb--although every one of her
kids (my nephews and niece) is.

Enough is enough.

[Auntie Bush]

6. Wow, that was brave of you!

I hope to don't lose too many friends and relatives because lots of them are Rethugs...also my sister. Tthank God my kids are Democrats. One was leaning ReThug but the Conventions changed his mind and now he thinks they are a bunch of fools.

[mnhtnbb]

7. Fortunately she lives across the country from me (in CA and I'm in NC)

so I never have to see her--except at the wedding of her daughter
in August. Boy, I dreaded it. Stayed away from her--without much trouble--
since as MOB she was busy.

[SheilaT]

4. Reply All is your friend.

I have never hesitated to use it when I receive such crap.

Usually, it takes no more than two such Reply All responses, especially when I link to Snopes, to stop getting such crap. Can't remember the last time I got a right-wing email.

[Sherman A1]

8. Precisely

I had a cousin who would send out that crap (actually it was his wife who never met an email that she didn't want to forward). I did a few reply all with detailed reasoning as to why the email was fully of crap and eventually just blocked his email account.

[SheilaT]

14. I have never had to block anyone.

I'm lucky, apparently. I also for the most part don't keep up any kind of correspondence with the kind of people who forward such stuff. And of course, the Reply All usually makes them take me off their email list.

I did have to block the posts of someone on FB, which seemed more polite than unfriending them.

[Sherman A1]

18. Using the FB block is likewise a good idea

it saves one's blood pressure and they never know that you have done so. Kind of a beautiful thing......

[nc4bo]

5. Sometimes you deserve a little respect. Nothing wrong with that!

If people (family included) insist on sending you stuff they know you don't agree with, they are not respecting you and yea, sometimes you have to put your foot down.

If they want to wallow in negativity, hate and fear despite all you probably do to counter it than that's their problem, it does not have to be yours!!

You didn't simply put your foot down, you stepped up to the line and said ENOUGH.

You've done well!

[Cleita]

9. You may find yourself a bit lonely after that, however, in the long

run getting all that hate and ignorance out of your life is a positive thing. Go make friends with a Muslim. You could find the company more satisfying than that of those who hate them. I once lived in an Iranian neighborhood in LA. Well, my DH and I were there first and they sort of moved in after. We didn't move out until my husband retired. They took over the businesses too as well as the residential. We found them to be very good neighbors. This was after the hostages that were taken that got Ronald Reagan elected. They were treated like trash by the Americans, but they too were people who had escaped the Ayatollah and were persecuted in their own country. Every single one of them was a better person than the hate filled Americans who tormented them.

[DonRedwood]

10. The good news is, you are AWESOME!!!

The bad news is, we all have some of those peeps in our families.

[Scuba]

11. Folks in my circle of acquaintances who send such crap long ago removed me from their lists ...

... knowing that I will respond to almost every one, providing the actual facts, with links and citations as necessary. They hate that.

[Liberalynn]

12. Good For You

My cousin used to send me those type of forwarded e-mails. One contained a very racist joke which I found offensive, not funny at all. So though I didn't use "reply all", I sent her a personal email telling her that equality was something that I believed all human beings are entitled to, and that I didn't just believe it politically but with all my heart and all my soul. I then sent her a link to a You Tube clip of Garth Brooks singing "We Shall Be Free."

It was strained between us for awhile but I found out from her brother, whom I am much closer to, that she was really bothered that she had upset me so much. I am normally the quiet little mouse in our family who never says boo and stays out of controversy. I shocked her. He and his wife, both told her, she should feel guilty. She claimed to him she didn't actually read the stuff, just passed it on. Not sure if I buy that cause why pass it on, if she didn't read it herself?

We are back talking and occassionally she will send me cute pictures of animals which we both love but she dosen't send me any political stuff any more and we never discuss politics in person either.

[RevStPatrick]

13. Luckily, I never get that stuff anymore.

Mainly because the few people who ever tried that with me got the full reply all treatment.
Accompanied by long bits of well-written text including links to refute whatever bullshit they were selling.

Those people don't want to read, they want to vent.
And they stopped venting at me when their friends started questioning their crap.
Works like a charm!
Happily, none of the people who ever did that were family members, since we all pretty much agree on everything...

[riverbendviewgal]

15. I orphaned myself a year ago

Let me explain.
I was was born American but now I am a Canadian citizen.
Living here in Canada for 43 years.

I still enjoyed reading and watching American news. Rooted for Gore..watched the chads counted with my dying husband. Upset Bush got in. Watched 9/11 and was devastated seeing the towers go down and the other attacks. I had been up those towers on the observatory deck with my husband and sons a few years before that. I grew up in sight of those towers.

Watched the Iraq war with concern, not believing the neocons lies about WMD.

My mom had been a widow since 2000 and lived in SC. She would hang up on me when I mentioned Obama. She died in 2010. Two brothers are very uninformed and my closer third brother was into sports and drinking .. He married his 2nd wife in 2003. and went from being called "Happy" to Bubba. and not the Clinton bubba.....the ugly bubba. I got all kinds of hateful emails from him. He absolutely hated Obama because he was black. I realized the whole family was like that. Bubba's daughter worked for Martin Lougheed and she told me she did not want to pay for any kids health care, no matter how poor they were. She is a real Romney girl.

So after many snopes searches and returning with sensible, kind explaining and still getting back capital letter racist emails I gave up and don't send anything anymore. I de friended him in FB and his daughter. He still sends me some emails which I don't answer and file them in a email folder under his name.

Hopefully Obama will win and also get a Senate and House majority. I will sit back and feel good but I will not send any emails...The ties are broken and severed forever. Blood is not thicker than water. I will not have anything to do with racist people.

[malaise]

16. Nice

[treestar]

17. It's funny how THEY do it and we don't

Maybe we should start left wing email chains. Passive Aggressive, but it is what they are doing. It's like they assume everyone agrees with them and will like what they like.

[Auntie Bush]

19. I noticed that! ReThugs are racists, lying, propagandist. Dems don't send out lies that I know of.

The problem is, I think they actually BELIEVE their lies...even though they KNOW their lies.
I think the main reason is because Obama is black...they can't come out a say it so they find all kinds of other reasons not to vote for him...lord help them if they voted for a black man...even though they know Romney is a stupid fool. I think if he got caught molesting a child they'd find a way to excuse him and still vote for him rather than a Socialist black man as Romney would still be the lesser of two evils. I can't believe how vehemently they hate this good and decent man.

[rustydog]

20. Check the ugly ones and have thier mailings sent to your trash file rather than read them.