Racist friends

I've thought a lot about this. Neither of my friends has responded to me. Once has continued to make borderline racist comments on his social media.

I've unfriended both of them. One is more of an ex colleague than a good friend so is less of a loss. The other though, I went to university with and I used to be very close to. It hurts.

Gagajo it really upsets me too that the BLM protests is showing up the racist in some friends and family, but not of course my immediate family, AC and their spouses.

So I’ve adopted a range of strategies. Those that are the worst and I don’t regard very highly anyway I’ve unfriended. I simply don’t need to read their disgusting posts.

Those who are closer to me, some of them basically nice people, but uneducated (in the wider sense of the word) I have responded by calling out their racism and putting the facts to them, and others who are somewhere in-between I have responded by asking them not to include me in their racist posts or tweets as they offend me.

Social media has a lot to answer for, as was pointed out earlier in the thread. Perhaps it should be reported to FB and they should be taking steps to delete these inflammatory posts.