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In reply to the discussion: DJT has cost me 75% of my "friends". [View all]Richard58
(239 posts)Since Trump took office I have unfriended a dozen people who were my Facebook friends. Most were acquaintances or coworkers. I had thought they were good, decent people. But once Trump got elected I started seeing some really nasty Facebook memes coming from their pages. It really appalled me! I kept seeing posts that were virulently anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-BLM. They started showing their true colors and didn't feel the need to hide their abhorrent opinions anymore. I argued with many of them and called out their BS. A couple unfriended me saying I was just a "socialist dupe" and "anti-White" and "anti-American". The rest I unfriended on my own. I told most of them why I was unfriending them. I told them they weren't the good people I thought they were and have given in to hate and bigotry. Most didn't respond but some said, "Goodbye and good riddance." I don't need people like that in my life and you don't either.
Frankly I am proud that you did what you did. It is amazing how people can fool you and pretend to be someone they are not until they feel "safe" to say how they really feel. Trump gave my ex-friends that permission. I have found out the hard way that there are a lot of nasty, hate-filled people out there and I refuse to be friends with bigots.