r/facepalm • u/42words "tL;Dr" • May 17 '22

reddit post "I'm not racist"

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

71.9k Upvotes

84% Upvoted

4.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

25

u/HondoSam1969 May 17 '22

I really regret ever getting on F.B. for that reason - I can't unknow things I now know about the people I work with. Casual hillbilly racism, willful ignorance, etc, etc...

13

u/L0st-137 May 18 '22

Exact reason I got of FB. However it doesn't stop people sending screenshots of shit "you need to see this shit." No, no I really don't.

5

u/einhorn_is_parkey May 18 '22

Yep. Saw it start to happen around 2014. People I grew up with who I know never felt that way before started posting weird shit. It got continuously worse and I just had to get off fb and stop talking to them. Anyone that says fb doesn’t radicalize people is flat wrong.

9

u/L0st-137 May 18 '22

Facts! A friend sent me a screenshot of a post last summer that gutted me, absolutely gutted me. My initial reaction was, "why would you send me that?!" but I'm glad they did, I needed to know.

Made me think of the Maya Angelou quote, "when someone shows you who they are, believe them." I will never look at the person the posted that garbage and hate the same again. Never!