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I had a friend (who I've known since high school, and I graduated in the late 80s) unfriend me because of a link I posted as a reply to his reply to a mutual fr
by spc476 11y ago
I had a friend (who I've known since high school, and I graduated in the late 80s) unfriend me because of a link I posted as a reply to his reply to a mutual friend's post.
My take: my now unfriended friend can dish it out, but can't take it.
His take (via some third parties): I'm a close minded evil conservative [1].
Yes, I come across posts from friends (and acquaintances) that I don't agree with but I won't unfriend any of them over it. There are 50,000 other channels I can "watch" and I'm certainly capable of changing the channel. Pity more people don't realize that.
[1] Libertarian actually. My friend is, in his own words, "a liberal pinko Commie." Make of that what you will.
- towlejunior 11y agoLet's see that link, baby.
- spc476 11y agoIt was to a medical study that showed a possible side effect of marijuana use is paranoia. The actual event happened some time last year and trying to dig it up on Facebook is a pain.
- rosser 11y agoGiven my own, and many of my friends, calling ourselves some variation on your friend's self-described political views, I think he's being pre-emptively, jokingly snarky, in order to fend off the kind of judgement implicit behind your, "Make of that what you will," from coming into the conversation. If he calls himself a "pinko" or whatever, he's taken its use as an epithet off the table. That's no small part of why my friends and I do that, anyway.