I only use FB for light contacts. I treat it like the dinner table: no sex, no politics, no religion. I'll ignore occasional minor transgressions, but repeat offenders get thrown in the electronic shit can.

Some of my relatives are in that shit can. You've got to be fair.

Everything on my page is just food pics, jokes, and pictures of my dogs. Someone tries to engage me in debate on my page, I quickly shut them down. I have friends, relatives, and ex-coworkers connected to me. I'm ambiguous as far as my political or any controversial issues on Facebook and in real life except with people I trust or I know won't be able to affect me in any way.

I have facebook groups to engage in various topics including politics where I am free as much as FB allows me to be free.

I also set my profile page to be visible only to friends.

You know you can delete comments people make on your posts, correct?

I would delete any such accusatory comments, unfriend and block.

If you don’t interact personally anymore, no reason to maintain an abusive digital relationship.

I'd just unfriend. At this point if you quit FB it just reinforces their behavior.

Unfriend ...Block ...Write her off . Don't worry about how it will look , etc. She's just there to annoy and harass you .

If you haven’t been called a racist then you’re not trying hard enough.

I have a FB account that I use for a few discussion groups on guitars, astronomy, electronics and for each group political discussion is prohibited.

I like that. I have 9 groups that I follow and 1 friend.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
If you haven’t been called a racist then you’re not trying hard enough.

I need to reconcile the fact that the accusation means much less today then it did 30 years ago. Now its just another political football that gets kicked around on a daily basis.

The poster who said "race to the bottom" nailed it.

It has become a wasteland of broken dreams, anger, and stalking.

none of my 20 year olds use it.

All of my 50-60 year old friends do. Why ? to live in the past.

You can archive your account.. My advice if you don't miss it after a month leave it archived.

John

Remember... if you are not paying for the product you are the product.

I've heard it said: "Racist is a label applied by people who can't win an argument with logic".

BTW, I dumped Face Book a couple of years ago.

I think there are some universal truths for all people. One of them being that we all adhere to some level of stereotypes, prejudices, racism.

I think what's meaningful is the level and also what manifests as actual behavior that matters.

And I'm not sure that any of these, in the absence of malice, are bad for society. Simple perspectives similar to laziness and greed. Sinful concepts, yet can be motivating to drive great things (great innovation, great efforts, etc).

People that call me racist w/o knowing me: 1) to some degree are right but that's just because racism is ubiquitous, 2) are projecting levels based on themselves, 3) are irrational for making conclusions w/o data.

I was thinking about this while I was mowing yesterday.

I keep reading cute little things posted on social media that says “we can disagree and still be friends”

We can disagree about who has the best pizza in town and still be friends. We can disagree about Ford versus Chevy and still be friends. We can even disagree about 9mm versus .45 and still be friends.

But people like this chick who have been radicalized in a religion of hate, we can’t. Let’s stop pretending we can. They hate our very existence. She would be just fine with you being loaded on a rail car. There is no “friending” people like that. The racism claims just mean she doesn’t possess the ability to debate with you. It’s how you know when you’ve bested a liberal.

No, we can’t still be friends.

Boot her! Unfriendly her. No need for her crap to invade your page.

Stereotypes exist for a reason.

Unfriend her

Social media CAN be useful, unfortunately, it's also honey to the emotionally vulnerable and the pathologically reactionary. The social media game is one of what you 'like', the more you click on political/social posts, the more it's going to feed you. My pages are simply there for family interaction, food, travel, cars, airplanes, ships and home improvement...and a few dogs. The socio/politcal stuff comes up but, never click on it or, expand to read the comments.

Its unfortunate that your friend has descended down the rabbit hole of political haranguing; as others have posted, people change, sometimes NOT for the better. Her using near ad hominem is proof-positive that she can't articulate her position, she doesn't have a clue about her position, and/or, she just doesn't respect you as a friend. A friend would recognize your boundaries and if not work to understand your position, respect it and not look to antagonize. IN her mind, her position is more important than your friendship and she's willing to throw anything against you to establish her position, to include the implication that you're a racist. Some friend she is.

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
Snooze or Unfollow, not worth wasting oxygen or keystrokes on. She won't know you aren't reading her shit.

Yep, this is the right step, cut the tie and move on, the one thing SM has done is let people out themselves, now you know how she really feels, so that's all that happened.

Unfortunately , there are still people that wet their pants at the thought of being called a racist . Most politicians are terrified of the label .