to have deleted a FB friend for this status update?

[Diziet]

I had to double-check it, I doubted the evidence of my own eyes.
She'd been sent a joke, which she'd put as her status, and it went as follows:
"No wonder they call it a funny bone, I just elbowed a Paki in the head" she then added to this that SHE'D thought it was funny!
So racially motivated violence is amusing, huh?

I deleted her.
She wasn't really a 'current' friend: someone I used to go to school with.
Have I been rather quick with the 'delete' button or would any of you have done the same?

I'd have messaged her saying she was a cunt first. And then deleted her.

yanbu
but you know that

I'd have deleted them without a second thought.

You need to tell her why you've deleted her or she'll never learn that this is unacceptable.

But YANBU.

YANBU.
I deleted someone once, an acquaintance who claimed "I'm going to rape my husband when he gets back"

I would have commented first, then deleted her once I'd highlighted to her friends what a twat she is.

I'm still flabbergasted, TBH!!

Delete, absolutely.

Facebook is such wank - gives twats the perfect opportunity to air their ignorance... and there's never any shortage of other twats to lol hun

You're right, I should've commented. D'oh!

That was the other thing... most of the comments were laughing along, although one of her friends gently chided her.
Perhaps I should have reminded her what century we're in...

How revolting. Agree with others though - you should have posted something on her wall telling her why you no longer wanted to read anything she had to say.

YANBU.

Let's hope somebody else does comment Diziet. I probably would have deleted first in disgust too!

I don't blame you. People should know these days that racism is not acceptable. I don't understand why people put racist comments on Facebook, because surely they know that even if they privately find them funny, a lot of people won't?? I don't know, I think most of them are just too ignorant to think it through. I hve to admit that I have a 'friend' on Facebook who is out and out racist. I went to school with him, and we were never actual friends, but he added me a year or so ago and I accepted. He writes some awful stuff on his page. I don't really know why I haven't deleted him other than that it's so bad I feel I have to keep him on in case he ever mentions anything that I might need to tell the police about! What's worse is that he has 2 sons who I expect are growing up listening to his awful prejudices. He also has other, vile, presumably real life, friends who comment on what he says with things like 'good one mate' and 'you should be Prime Minister.'

YANBU and think I would have told her why as well.

This is a bit like asking AIBU to refrain from poking babies in the eye with sharp sticks, isn't it?

YANBU

I probably would have commented "The 1970s called. They want their racist joke back." And then deleted her.

But I am immature.

I would have told her that she was a braindead moron first.

Yanbu. But, if you leave a comment and then delete the friend, won't your comment disappear from their status update also?

It will Bugrit. It's only if you block somebody that they wouldn't see your comment. I tend to do that too with fuckwits.

at MackerelOfFact!
Good point, Bugrit.
X post, BarbaraSeville - IKWYM, but in my defence, I was in a state of shock and wasn't really thinking straight!
Call me naive (sp?) but I always seem to think that people don't think things like that anymore, even though I am often disappointed.

YANBU!

I deleted a woman from my FB this week after she told me to "shove a firework up my arse and see if i still liked fireworks" - all because Id posted that id enjoyed the fireworks display (her status had said she hated bloody fireworks as they make her dogs bark).

OK, just had an idea for a status update of my own:
'Do you think jokes about racially motivated violence are amusing? If you do, then I'd delete me off your friends list if I were you as it'll save me the job of deleting YOU.'
I DO have a sense of humour, it generally involves me laughing at something that's actually funny.

Nice! Do it.