Had to flush the Facebook toilet

[angrychair]

Had to unfriend a couple of people on Facebook tonight and followed it by posting this:
Let me be clear to anyone that is "friended" with me on Facebook, if you call our president a "terrorist" or compare him to a terrorist or advocate for the murder of human beings based solely on their religion, or lack thereof, that think it is best to leave Syrian refugees, many innocent women and children, to be killed by ISIL, that think that we can bomb, shoot or kill our way to peace, I advise you now, UNFRIEND ME.

See how that goes over.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I guess I must be lucky; my friends do not think like that.

I'm sorry that you had to do that.

[angrychair]

4. Thanks, politics aside

A couple were long time friends, this attack on Paris has seem to give them carte blanche to be go full racist xenophobic asshat. So be it but I'll not stand idle and do or say nothing.

[flygal]

9. My friends don't either - my relatives on the other hand!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

2. I had to stop myself from doing the same thing about two hours ago. Instead, I just...

...logged off.

Please let us know how it turns out.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Yes, I read tonight that Obama is a Muslim

and is denying Christian Syrians refugee status.

It's amazing how idiotic some of these people are.

[MiniMe]

5. I have "unfriended" several "friends" lately

I just couldn't take all the BS. I play some games on FB, and most of those "friends" were friends only because of those games.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. yes.

I know someone who put up a pic of Obama on facebook and it said I don't know what I will do about Isis. I will check at the next family reunion. The person who put this up thought it was funny. I said it was dangerous because millions pof people really believe he is a Kenyan Muslim and some of them want to kill him. She doesn't get it. I told her to look up stochastic terrorism and hate radio. And she is a step relative. The more time I spend on the internet the more depressed I get. It is not a good substitute for face to face contact. It's not funny. It borders on hate speech if it is taken seriously.

[davidpdx]

7. I had one long time friend go on a rampage starting the other day

on Facebook. She has something like 5,000 friends. She's been screaming because some of her "friends" are saying bad things about Barack Obama. I told her "you know if you don't like these people unfriend them."

[Tipperary]

8. I have never had problems like that on facebook.

But I generally keep my politics out of it anyway. I do have right wing friends and I have no wish to argue with them on social media. They have as much right to their beliefs as I do to mine.

[angrychair]

10. While I tend to agree

I had let a lot slide before this but when they 'liked' and reposted some gif that made our president out to be the leader of ISIL and talked about "removing" him to destroy ISIL, that was a bridge to far.
The other, different person, was about Syrian refugees getting beaten, raped or killed was something they deserved, so I couldn't take it anymore.
While we have always had friends we don't agree with politically, this racist, xenophobic hate speech is something I don't have to force myself to look at or interact with and something I can't just let slide without comment.

[trumad]

11. I have mine tweaked pretty good.

I still have a few who push the envelope with me...you know---the old---hey there are homeless vets---let's take care of them before the Refugees---those type--- I let that slide....or just delete the meme picture they posted.

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. The thing about the "Impoverished children and homeless vets first"

The same people who hate Syrian refugees have been against funding those things too. Something about "Takers".

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. Just a personal observation of FB posts I've seen this week

The anti-refugee posts are getting trounced and the posters humiliated. Repeatedly. They post their pathetic, snarky JPEG that thought was SO CLEVER! and are completely unprepared for the storm that awaits them.

But that's just in my little FB universe.

[Hortensis]

14. I admire that, angry chair. More people should. I blocked all but

our smallish family and a few close friends long ago, so haven't been forced to make that decision.