Can I ignore a Facebook "friend" request from a relative?

HarrietMWelsch
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:55:04 +0000

spideygirl, here’s the thing in my case. I can (and do) forgive, ninety-times-nine or to whatever extent is necessary. (Ad infinitum, probably, in this case.)

What I will not do is friend a person who is going to post ugly, racist comments on my wall - as she has done on others’ - or muse about how “those homos should all be dead already” - as she has done on others’. That’s two specific examples of what I meant when I said toxic.

Just because I can consider the source, forgive her, and so on, doesn’t mean that I’m doing the world any good by giving her another place to spread her poison.

I choose NOT to have my other friends exposed to gratuitous ugliness, or to see it myself when I don’t have to. I’m very comfortable with that choice, spiritually and in every other way.