Biting back (no not you people :) )

[Lesley_Roberta]

I am VERY active on Facebook, and I see a lot of 'news items' as a result of some of my friends mentioning things.

I try to avoid news normally. I don't have cable, and don't want it. The weather is not important to me and I couldn't care less about sports, and presto there goes any manner of defending cable as being worth a damn.

But I see items on my Facebook.

Grrrrr some articles, they REALLY make me want to growl, and believe me, I also want to bite.

Some of the utter crap disguised too often as religiously driven dogma (often having almost no rational connection to the religion as well) really sends my hackles up in most cases.

I just read how a radio Pastor thinks Girls Guides promotes lesbian agendas. WTF?

I can just picture how it would go down if one of these mental midgets tried that to me in person.

Oh I can assure you the offender would need counseling after what I'd say back in return.

I am simply not the sort that wants to sing kumbya and wait for these people to grow up and come to their senses and leave all the hateful dogma in the past where all the rest of superstition and nonsense belongs.

My area of expertise is 20th century and the 40s. I am NOT afraid to say, I'm ok with eliminating sources of vicious hatred. And no, I am not interested in the crazy rebuttal that I would be denying 'free speech'. I don't make friends with hate mongers. And I'm willing to play by their rules and seek to wipe them out rather than it be me.

I prefer to bite back.

Look up the actual original meaning of the Hebrew notion of 'meek'. It's not the popular and incorrect notion of the weak and defenseless and downtrodden. There's nothing meek about me.

[Robin Mack]

I get a lot of those, too, less since I separated my "real" facebook persona from the old male one.  If people aren't at least trans friendly, they should *not* be on my page.

The thing to remember, I think, is that these posts are *intended* to provoke reactions.  The more comments they receive, the more "relevant" the original poster (even of a share) becomes and the more likely they are to be seen on more facebook walls.  By fighting this kind of beast in the comments, you are actually fueling it.

So, by all means react!  Just don't post your reactions in the comments sections of the offending posts because then you're only fueling their hate-filled fire.

*hug*

[suzifrommd]

As a teacher, I think it's my duty to point out ignorance wherever I see it. Doesn't always make me popular, but ignorance is the reason for an awful lot of the world's ills.

[Lesley_Roberta]

Actually Robin, most of the articles are being mentioned by others of our TG community so that we can know about them and speak out.

I never permit anything on my FB unless it is from a friend.