I generally don’t use the term “Snowflake” because it is name calling and I like to think I’m more adult than that. Stop laughing, sometimes I am!
But I’m going to make an exception for this post because there is just no other way to describe what I experienced. A former coworker had a complete meltdown over some of my Facebook posts and said he was going to call out all of my “BS” (he used the whole word) and would be refuting all of my posts from then on.
So I did what anyone would do in that case and deleted and blocked him.
That’s not my normal MO, but in this case, the comments were creepy enough that I felt it necessary to rid myself of this jerk. I don’t need a self-appointed Facebook moral authority censoring fool to comment on my opinion.
The strangest part is what brought on the meltdown. I posted an article in which Kathy. Griffin (you know, the whacko) talked about targeting Barron Trump with her particular brand of crude and cruel humor.
Cue the melting…. Former friend says he couldn’t take my BS anymore and was going to call me out. I deleted his comment from the article and told him that if he couldn’t be constructive then not to contact me. He replied that he was being constructive and that I had deleted his post just because “he didn’t agree with me.”
Then I really geared up. I don’t delete comments I don’t agree with unless they are personally insulting. I’ve had plenty of people make some pretty stupid comments that I don’t agree with and I leave them because I do believe in free speech.
The argument then went something like this. He told me that Trump is going to throw all Muslims in internment camps (because we did that to the Japanese Americans despite studies that said they were likely to remain loyal Americans). He said he didn’t need to get his news from gossip pages. That was his reference to the article I posted….which was the original source of the quote. This guy is a history teacher….I think he should know about original sources…. And so on and so on.
All throughout the “argument” I refused to acquiesce to his “superior” point of view. Which made him even more unhinged and insulting.
I finally told him that I was going to stay “deplorable” and that I didn’t agree with any of his emotional, over the top reaction. Delete and block.
Can’t argue or discuss with crazy. Not worth my time.
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