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

spideygirl
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:10:21 +0000

Wow - I have never seen e-mails sent by God and country-loving, troop supporting people which also spread hate. I am surrounded by folks like that, and have never heard a peep of that sort of negativity. I guess I always thought it was some kind of political stereotype baloney, but I believe you - it happens. I have to add, though, that people who are TRULY God-loving would or could not be doing anything of the sort.

I have seen hate speech coming from people who pretend to want “change we can believe in”, but then engage in hate talk against women (i.e. Sarah Palin and her “unfitness” to serve because she is both female and a parent of a child with health challenges - and a pregnant teen) and certain religions (the Mormon Church, the Catholic Church). I could go on.

The bottom line, I guess, is that there are people out there from both ends of the spectrum who need to have their e-mails cut off, if hate is what they are spreading.