I just unfriended a person who is much more of an acquaintance than a friend. We have several mutual friends and go to some of the same events, but she is very vocal about her right wing politics and two days ago, she said that Brett Cavanaugh’s accuser can’t be believed, because it “supposedly” happened 35 years ago, and she said that length of time made the accusation not credible. That was the last straw for me. I’ve put up with other awful things she said, but this one really hit home.
I have several friends who have been raped, and most of them were afraid to talk about it or go to the authorities (most of these happened 10, 20, or 30 years ago). One of my friends has never even mentioned the situation to her own mother, because she was afraid that her mother would view her as irresponsible or unclean. This woman is 32 years old, and one of the smartest, kindest people I know, but being raped was something she has only told to a select few people. Another friend was raped when she was about 14 by a kid who was a year older that lived on our street. This kid was a bully and was really mean to almost everybody. I never found out about it until about 5 years later, because she was too ashamed to say anything, because she thought she must have done something wrong to provoke this jerk. She never told her parents. Another friend, one of my co-workers, was raped by a friend when she was a teenager, and then by her husband when she was a young bride. She was an abused wife for 10 years before she had the courage to leave him. She’s now approaching 50 and she is now just dealing with this situation in therapy.
So I felt compelled to unfriend this acquaintance because I think she is an idiot, and seems to be proud of her “knowledge” even though she is completely clueless.
I also had to unfriend a relative about 2 years ago because she is a right wing zealot, gun loving, Trump supporter who doesn’t believe that people in the United States should have health care, even though the fact that she had to buy into Obama Care was the main reason she is alive today, because she has had to have several surgeries that she never would have been able to afford without insurance, and she has a mean temper and a big mouth and she is always trying to tell people how important it is that we all carry guns, because the gov’ment is coming to get us. She recently moved to Texas so she could take advantage of the open carry laws. She also has a tendency to post memes that suggest “forgiveness”, but what she really means is that she is pretending to take the high road in “forgiving” people who have wronged her, when in reality, she was the person who created the problem and did the damage herself. This is in between her posts about the newest gun she just bought and the “true meaning” of the 2nd amendment. I got sick to my stomach reading the responses from her other like minded Facebook friends, so I had to unfriend her, and I don’t have any relationship with her anymore.