Ordinarily I'd post something snarky, but nah. This is really shitty.

Disagree. If you unfriend them their Facebook feed will have one less non-racist, and will just continue to reinforce their own racist thoughts.

I like to bring up John Crawford a lot for this reason. Dude picked up a pellet gun in wal-mart, was wandering around minding his own business and was shot by cops. Neither the guy who called him in for threatening people (which video footage does not support, Crawford was killed while on the phone with the mother of…

This same people probably didn't say a word against the parents who let their young daughter fire an Uzi, and subsequently killed the instructor.

It's incredibly difficult to have a teachable moment about racism in general and I think facebook is particularly ill-suited for that. I also think people are less ashamed when called out for racism these days than they were 20 years ago (this is actually a sign of progress in that we're moving closer to discussing…

Same thing here — oh but Mike was shoplifting! My white ass shoplifted all over town at his age. Did I deserve to be shot? Because the worst I ever got was they made me sit down and called my parents.

+1 except don't unfriend them. Call them out. If you weren't bothered anyway and have discovered you actively dislike them because of their beliefs, why would you care if you upset them?

I have a friend who just had to block her own brother in law- he posts some bullshit pictures of him and his 6 year old shooting cans and stuff with real guns and talks about the right to carry his guns here and there or wherever he wants and that if the kid wants to carry his gun he should be allowed to, dammit. Two…

I agree it's highly unlikely that ladymidnight was intentionally friending racists, but if she's got a full bingo card it seems safe to say she's at least negligently doing so. I used to think it was funny when I saw people post things like she did — how clueless these people seem to be that the information reflects…

Or the Open Carry shit stains that walked into Chipotles with their AK47s?

Gee, I wonder why all the kids with real guns in rural areas never get the Tamir Rice treatment?

I don't think it's necessarily actively friending racists so much as it's suddenly learning that people you went to high school with whose friend requests you halfheartedly accepted and were too lazy to unfriend before are racist shits.

Thankfully (!?!) here in Houston I haven't heard a single soul question why he had a gun, just why the tip was off, and why he was pointing it at people. So there's that?

My favorite is someone who put up a screen cap of a bunch of bullshit Fox statistics, one of which was that killings of black Americans has gone down 70% in the past 50 years. I don't think anyone is surprised that there has been a precipitous decline in the murders of black men since 1964, the middle of the f'ing…

Stop friending racists.

Don't worry. Bono and Band Aid are on the case :/

My husband lived in Sierra Leone and we're still connected with folks there. It is a country full of extraordinarily resilient people who, despite the outbreak, are still building schools, sourcing safe water, develop agricultural programs. I only say this to emphasize that despite the civil war and the Ebola outbreak…

If only there was some kind of loving and all powerful god behind the christmas holiday to worship who could step in and save the day.

Your final line ruined the joke I wanted to make. This both pleases me that you know your audience, and displeases me in that I can't make this thread about my wit and cultural insensitivity.

They shut down all their bars? There goes my holiday plans :(