But heres what Facebook comments are good for: revealing data about whether you want your friends to be your friends any longer. That is, of course, if you believe, as I do, that the way someone responds to other peoples pain and mistreatment—including the systemic mistreatment of entire groups of people—is a perfectly fine way to decide whether he or she is someone you like or want to continue to interact with. Call me intolerant, but my view is that, if someones reaction to an unarmed black teenager being killed is to announce that he probably deserved it, that person is not someone Im interested in being associated with, and I wont miss him or her a bit after I hit block. There are too many compassionate and smart people in the world for me to waste even a fraction of my social media scrolling time on interactions with people who are either racist or unintelligent and insensitive enough to appear so....But heres the thing: Each and every person making comments that rub you the wrong way has access to the entire Internet, live feeds from Ferguson, materials on the entire history of American racism generally and violence against unarmed black men specifically. They are choosing to think the way they do because it works for them and makes them feel good. theroot/articles/culture/2014/08/how_to_deal_with_friends_racist_reactions_to_ferguson.html
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:43:40 +0000
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