Phil Robertson Has Made Me Hate Facebook Finally

[Inkfreak]

I enjoy using Facebook to keep in contact with my Mom & Sister. It's a nice easy way to post pics and keep tabs on each other. It's honestly a pleasure to use. I keep my friends list low. I'm not into friending a kid I went to middle school with. But lately, there are a few friends of mine on Facebook who have shown their true ciolors. I'm deluged with memes about how our boy Phil was only speaking the truth. And how we stand with Phil & God. And a few other vomitus shit.

I'm just going thru and hiding the posts as I see em. It's all I can do really. I'm not a confrontational guy. And it's members of my family, like a cousin or an uncle. Or a few people who I know and are "friends" of a sort. You know the kind..it's always pleasant talk about what's been going on, but never serious stuff. Anywho, it's just been irritating me yesterday & today, so i figured I'd rant about what a bunch of shitty people they are.



I FUCKING HATE BIGOTS!!!!!

(whew..felt better, thanks for reading)

[Hoyt]

1. Me too!!!!! I cannot believe the number and intensity of the bigotry being posted there.

[Inkfreak]

4. I've also noticed..

that they are mostly defending his homophobic comments by pointing to his faith in God. No word yet on his comments about how black people weren't "singing the blues" before civil rights. Cause everything was sooo simple & wonderful back then for black Americans.

And one more lil Facebbok nugget for ya. A cousin of mine wrote that he didn't say anything that wasn't true, just politically incorrect. Unreal. He's a cop, btw. Protecting & serving. I know it kinda doesn't matter that he is..but I feel it does a lil bit. Might be my inherent distrust of em.

[Jazzgirl]

10. I had one buddy who has a friend who pushed back really hard and challenged him.

He particularly mentioned the comments about black people but focused on all of it. He did a great job challenging him. I posted to my buddy "what he said". Couldn't have said it better.

[arcane1]

2. I especially hate seeing all the ignorace of the constitution

At least this fool is making the other fools easy to identify

[get the red out]

3. Hide

I hid most of the folks like that back during the election. My Facebook has gradually evolved into being primarily for pet discussion, primarily dog agility, which I have taken up as a hobby in the past couple of years. That evolution has really spared me a lot of grief. But I saw that one cousin I had just resumed contact with was simply aghast when I posted the liberal outcome of one of those online political quizzes, I guess she had no idea she even knew "one of those people", LOL.

[Inkfreak]

5. This is what I've come to do, also.

I tend to post funny (at least I hope) comments. Or pictures of my dogs. I try to keep it as plain as possible. But yea..the shit I've seen, lol.

[get the red out]

13. One RW friend

I even have one old friend from school who is a total tea bagger, but doesn't post a lot of that crap, just a meme here and there, enough to know what his politics are. He mostly posts dog stuff so I haven't hidden him. He's more into his German Shepherd than spewing hate, I can deal with that.

[Hoyt]

11. I would, but I hate to see their crud go unchallenged. I'm hoping they will defriend me first.

Most of the folks are High School types from the early 1960s who never moved on from the 50s southern mentality. Most are surprised at my comments because I was rather reserved back then (not really aware of much more than hating being a teenager).

I lucked up in that my first class at an otherwise conservative college was a sociology professor who came in one day with a big gash on his head -- he had been at a rally for civil rights in Atlanta and the police attacked. He walked in told us what happened and that the course outline has changed, we are going to talk about stuff that mattered. I learned a lot from him, and hope I've left most of those high school f&*kers behind -- they can be just like Phil Robertson if it makes them happy.

[get the red out]

12. As long as it doesn't keep you upset

My problem was that I stayed upset over what these people posted. I couldn't believe the crap, wishing the President dead, all kinds of rancid spew; and I stayed just miserably angry. I finally had to let it go.

As long as it doesn't effect you, have at them. They have it coming.

[Hoyt]

14. Good point. My blood pressure does rise, and sometimes I get really angry.

You are right, it's probably not worth it. They do have it coming, and they like to gang up on people with their right wing BS.

Lately, they've been doing the "it's merry Christmas, not happy holidays" junk. I like to post back, Happy Festivus. That really gets them going.

Sometimes I think if I keep them busy, they won't have time to burn crosses on folks' lawn.

[Vashta Nerada]

6. My sister posted a graphic on facebook yesterday defending Phil Robertson's right to free speech...

(laughable, right?) and I ripped her a new one.

She never replied to me. Haha.

[mnhtnbb]

7. You are not alone. I have now hidden posts from ALL of hubby's Georgia family

who apparently (and I've talked to hubby about it) do not know
that we have two gay sons.

One of the relatives says Duck Dynasty is her favorite TV show and she's 'honored'
to post (bigoted crap) from some of the right wing bloggers.

I told hubby this morning I want nothing more to do with any of these relatives.
In my book, they've just come out as bigots.

[Inkfreak]

8. Oh, wow. It can't be easy dealing with those folks.

You're probably doing the right thing. I can't help but wonder what'll happen when/if they find out about your sons. Good luck & I hope you're boys don't ever have to deal with their bigotry. Or if they do, they brush it off and carry on proud of who they are.

[mnhtnbb]

9. Fortunately, we have little interaction with them.

For the last 5-6 years, hubby has gone alone to be with his family
around an event in which they all participated (celebrating Revolutionary War days).
I always was able to beg off. Now hubby's sister and her husband no longer
are able to travel, so hubby didn't go this year.

Fine with me.

Both our boys are out to my side of the family...no problems. I think
hubby is embarrassed his family is so bigoted. And they don't confine
their bigotry to gays; they are equally racist and hate on Obama, too.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. I actually had a nice "chat" with my niece

who appeared to support the claims that mr. Robertson's free speech had been violated. I explained to her that this was not a free speech issue, that no one put him in jail for saying what he said, but that instead his employer had taken an action that was 100% their right, and that it wasn't so different from what happened to Martin Bashir. She "got it," and I feel happy that I was able to educate her.

She's young, though, and can be reasoned with, unlike the older bigots.

[PassingFair]

16. Fabulous! Drag these beliefs out into the cleansing light of the sun!

Exposing bigotry and putting the bigot (religious or not) on the defensive, publicly
is the fastest way to effect change.