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Has anyone else changed their social relationships (Original Post) cilla4progress Mar 2017 OP
Yes. I am no longer strong enough to socialize with or Lint Head Mar 2017 #1
oh my yes..... chillfactor Mar 2017 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author doc03 Mar 2017 #5
Yes Rorey Mar 2017 #3
Have Adult children who Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #4
So sorry for cilla4progress Mar 2017 #8
I try to avoid the people that I know voted for Trump, you can't doc03 Mar 2017 #6
I cut off all contact ... NanceGreggs Mar 2017 #7
No, but that's because I'd purged the right wingers PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2017 #9
no, I was never friends with racists Skittles Mar 2017 #10

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
1. Yes. I am no longer strong enough to socialize with or
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 11:45 PM
Mar 2017

try to reason with bigots or racists. Life is too short. And believe me I've known many. BIG LEAGUE. Born and raised in racist South Carolina.

chillfactor

(7,573 posts)
2. oh my yes.....
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 11:49 PM
Mar 2017

I had a"friend" who wished someone would shot Hillary dead during the election process....she would hear nothing negative about the orange one.....I finally came to the conclusion that she was as brain-dead as the orange one and ended our "friendship" right after election day. I want nothing to do with a person who hates any minority and wants innocent people dead but claims to be a Christian. She certainly has enveloped the deplorable moniker.

Response to chillfactor (Reply #2)

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
3. Yes
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 11:49 PM
Mar 2017

Quite a few. And I resent it when people tell me that I should just leave politics out of relationships. Their politics tell me who they are.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. Have Adult children who
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:21 AM
Mar 2017

believe every word that comes out of the POS's mouth. Both being Professional's and well educated should know better and see through the Lies and Hatred. What is really troubling is,couple of the Grand Kids thing it is cool to spout hatred towards non Whites. Needless to say,it has been months since speaking,will not tolerate Hate speech and lies.

doc03

(35,324 posts)
6. I try to avoid the people that I know voted for Trump, you can't
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:29 AM
Mar 2017

talk to them no matter what he does or says they still think he is god.

NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
7. I cut off all contact ...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:30 AM
Mar 2017

... with my youngest sister. She was a daughter of my father's second marriage, and we found each other through FaceBook about nine years ago, after having been estranged since we were in our early teens.

I ignored her racist-tinged remarks for years - we live 600 miles apart, and it's not like I had to deal with her on a one-on-one basis. We kept our communications to family news about our kids, grandkids, etc.

I cut her out of my life when she praised Trump's election, and his plans to "get rid of those people".

We never talked politics - but I should have known she'd be a Trump supporter - she is dumb-as-a-brick, has never read a book in her life, and is so illiterate I could barely decipher her emails.

So now she's out of my life - no regrets.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,839 posts)
9. No, but that's because I'd purged the right wingers
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:41 AM
Mar 2017

in the years before.

Back before FB I'd get some stupid RW mass email and I'd ALWAYS do a "Reply All" debunking and pushing back. I never got more than two such emails from anyone person before they took me off the list.

On FB, I've unfriended people who post garbage, or at least blocked them from my page. And when something does show up, I push back. I won't let such crap go unchallenged.

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