Is anyone else seeing this on FB

[anodyne]

Or am I just the lucky one with assholes for FB friends?

Let me preface, I am from STL so Ferguson and race are a big topic on my FB.  I'd say I have a good mix of different race/LGBT friends.  The two most vocal people for Wilson are gay men.  The shit they spew is really pissing me off.  I literally have one post about accepting gays followed by a post calling everyone in Ferguson thugs (which in my mind is the new n-word).  

You'd think one oppressed group could see past the few wrongs that have been done to see what the real fight is about.  

I am losing faith in humanity.

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Is there supposed to be an image or something?

I defriended someone yesterday because she posted one of those statuses that suggested no one gives a shit about veterans because omg black people. I didn't have the energy to engage and I really only know her via the costuming sewing world so yeah.

[sparrowsong]

Still pretty much crickets on mine. One friend who is married to an African and is raising a biracial daughter is the only person I've seen post something pro-protesters. Oh no, one other friend said she was "so sick of hearing about Ferguson." That one pissed me off and made me lose some respect for her. It was like 10 days after mike brown was killed and she was sick of hearing about it. Ugh.

On the other hand I have a cousin who is a cop. He's posting all kind of anti riot stuff and criticizing "cop haters." I want to post something about how thoroughly he's missing the point. This isn't about hating cops. Quit being so fucking defensive and try to grasp a bigger picture here and stop making this about you, you privileged middle class white man. His wife commented on one of my posts saying she hopes I'm not anti-police. I just replied that I believe most cops are good, I just don't support an obviously corrupt dept and that I wished more good cops and good depts were actually speaking up against ferguson's actions. By not I think it does encourage distrust in police across the country and does put good cops in more danger.

I'm pretty mistrustful of Fb though since reading about their algorithms and filtering that May have really limited how many posts about ferguson were actually viewable on people's friends list. Maybe my friends are talking about this and I just know because Fb predecided that I don't care. Makes me wonder if Fb and media work together to control the info the public sees to try to put a lid on a possible revolution movement. /tin foil hat

[sparrowsong]

Aug 31, 2014 14:08:50 GMT -5 anodyne said:

Or am I just the lucky one with assholes for FB friends?

 I literally have one post about accepting gays followed by a post calling everyone in Ferguson thugs (which in my mind is the new n-word).

I said the same thing somewhere in the monster thread, calling someone a thug is new objectifying way to dismiss a black victim as "just a n*****" and think you're not actually being racist. Read the comment section on any news story and you'll see it.

[lasagnasshole]

Aug 31, 2014 16:51:00 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

Aug 31, 2014 15:48:29 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

Still pretty much crickets on mine. One friend who is married to an African and is raising a biracial daughter is the only person I've seen post something pro-protesters. Oh no, one other friend said she was "so sick of hearing about Ferguson." That one pissed me off and made me lose some respect for her. It was like 10 days after mike brown was killed and she was sick of hearing about it. Ugh.

On the other hand I have a cousin who is a cop. He's posting all kind of anti riot stuff and criticizing "cop haters." I want to post something about how thoroughly he's missing the point. This isn't about hating cops. Quit being so fucking defensive and try to grasp a bigger picture here and stop making this about you, you privileged middle class white man. His wife commented on one of my posts saying she hopes I'm not anti-police. I just replied that I believe most cops are good, I just don't support an obviously corrupt dept and that I wished more good cops and good depts were actually speaking up against ferguson's actions. By not I think it does encourage distrust in police across the country and does put good cops in more danger.

I'm pretty mistrustful of Fb though since reading about their algorithms and filtering that May have really limited how many posts about ferguson were actually viewable on people's friends list. Maybe my friends are talking about this and I just know because Fb predecided that I don't care. Makes me wonder if Fb and media work together to control the info the public sees to try to put a lid on a possible revolution movement. /tin foil hat

No.

Maybe it's just the wine, but I cannot stop laughing at the bolded. 

I can just see Brian Williams and Mark Zuckerberg having monthly anti-revolution summits. 

LOL. Someone hold my wine glass so I don't spill it while I'm doubled over in laughter. 

[sparrowsong]

LOL

Ok. I'm a little paranoid.

[KB]

Someone got unfriended today after posting something about a march coming up this weekend on a major highway in St. Louis/Ferguson. The comment was "how is this helping anything? These people have only made things worse since day 1." These people? Nope. See ya.

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Aug 31, 2014 15:56:32 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

Aug 31, 2014 14:08:50 GMT -5 anodyne said:

Or am I just the lucky one with assholes for FB friends?

 I literally have one post about accepting gays followed by a post calling everyone in Ferguson thugs (which in my mind is the new n-word).

I said the same thing somewhere in the monster thread, calling someone a thug is new objectifying way to dismiss a black victim as "just a n*****" and think you're not actually being racist. Read the comment section on any news story and you'll see it.

Agreed. IDK if you saw my recent posts about the issues my sister has in its suburbs but recently, there was a fight that broke out at the skating rink in my old town. Nearly all of the online comments blamed "thugs" from *that* side of Savannah, clearly in town to cause trouble. Other comments blamed it on the influx of people who rent (aka also black people.)

The older I get, the more I see it.

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Aug 31, 2014 18:07:55 GMT -5 Stan said:

I've seen the we don't care about the troops if we care about Michael Brown. It made me sad because it was a friend from military nesties who became an IRL friend. I engaged but didn't get a response.

Yes, that's what I defriended someone over, those exact sentiments. It was couched with a tepid, "I don't think the officer was right, per se but I thought this was an interesting viewpoint." My immediate thought was fuck you and I unfriended them.

[racegrrl714]

Aug 31, 2014 14:08:50 GMT -5 anodyne said:

Or am I just the lucky one with assholes for FB friends?

Let me preface, I am from STL so Ferguson and race are a big topic on my FB.  I'd say I have a good mix of different race/LGBT friends.  The two most vocal people for Wilson are gay men.  The shit they spew is really pissing me off.  I literally have one post about accepting gays followed by a post calling everyone in Ferguson thugs (which in my mind is the new n-word).  

You'd think one oppressed group could see past the few wrongs that have been done to see what the real fight is about.  

I am losing faith in humanity.

Yes, one of my gay friends has been very vocal about supporting Wilson. It's kind of weird but yeah, whatever.