how to lose friends and alienate people

January 7th, 2009, 9:36 pm

this guy in my program that i talk to maybe once every two months updated his facebook status to say “is tired of all the blatant antisemitism. try living in Israel for a month and having your friend blown up on a bus, that will change your perspective.”

obviously he thinks the protests and commentary regarding all that israel-gaza stuff recently are antisemitism. not surprising that somebody somewhere would reach that conclusion, but someone in university? there’s no excuse for being that dumb.

i have a lot of acquaintances on facebook that post ridiculously stupid things which i ignore, but this one topped it so much that i had to reply :
“the discrimination is not against a religion and by definition is not antisemitism”

this made him so angry that over the course of 15 minutes the following happened:

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he deleted that and replaced it with:
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he then deleted that AND my original comment, replacing them with:
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4: he defriended me.

i love that it made him so angry he didn’t remove me from friends right away – he replied brusquely, then accusingly, then with open anger before he took The Final Measure.

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