(March 11, 2014 at 6:04 am)Stue Denim Wrote: I do realise a more charitable way to read your message is "that you point out that all you ever hear from your righty friends is those points that are in smaller font and under the big ass racism accusation in the image and that they then unfriend you after you accuse them of being repetitive". But then, I'd not write any message condoning anything in a post like that without making it absolutely clear which part I'm agreeing with. Your post is quite ambiguous, clarify what 'this' is maybe?
Thank you for assuming positive intent, but even if I never right out called them a racist, my friends and I knew that they were being just that. A lot of the smaller print gets discussed, and most of those friends of mine remain friends, but the ones that are obviously being bigoted get called out rather harshly. I suppose I should mention that the latest offender was my brother, and I was not the only family member involved in calling him out for his ignorant remarks concerning the current Administration.
Look, I understand that we need to value communication and promote discourse and all that jazz, but when a far right Tea Partying asshole posts inflammatory comments from the Australian Tea Party Facebook page and makes blanket comments that offend anyone's sensibilities, I believe all rational discourse has flown out the window and the hammer of facts needs to be dropped.
But that's just me.