Someone I loosely call a friend - you know, connected on Facebook and LinkedIn and so on and I worked quite closely with them around 20 years ago. Today and not for the first time published a post on Facebook that was offensive and shoutey if there is such a word. So un-friend and un-follow were required. You see, it's like the bloke who rather than discuss climate change his first words were yelled into my face "You're a Climate Denier!!" and also decided to yell at me for my Brexit views.
This chap decided to call me (although he doesn't know this) a "racist" for being a member of a certain political party. So he tarnished everyone of us with a blanket quite outrageous statement and you can't go around doing that and have no consequence for it. I know, free speech and all that, but to blanket bomb people with this now, often overused and I suppose thereby meaningless statement surely shows the way that we have dumbed down society where yelled and thrown about libels are bandied around as facts or truths.
Anyway, I will never have to see or hear from him again which is good, he's turned into a right disgusting mouthpiece for vitriol and rudeness these past few years and if he thinks and acts like this his mind is already poisoned and yo don't need that in your life. I've already been giving him 30 days rest at a time but this is enough.
Ah but what about free speech when you block someone I hear some ask? Well I'm not stopping him from saying and posting what he wants, its up to him. I am choosing not to read it which is totally up to me, his rights are not affected and my rights are not to hear stuff I don't want to which is fully exercising my rights too of course.
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