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To never speak to this friend again?

203 replies

ArgyMargy · 15/04/2015 22:31

She has just outed herself on Facebook as a UKIP supporter. I always knew she was a bit racist but she lives in a backwater. What the hell do I do now?! Should I just never speak to her again?

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Icimoi · 17/04/2015 11:50

SuperDroopers, where do you get the idea that we cannot debate UKIP's proposed immigration policy for fear of being called racist? Can you not see for yourself that it is being debated all over the place?

This is what really annoys me about UKIP propaganda - they operate, rather as the Mail does, by inducing a sense of fear which is not based on anything concrete whatsoever, but which all helps to whip up hatred against the dreaded forrins as the supposed cause of that fear.

nickersinaknot · 17/04/2015 12:03

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RuthAaaghhh · 17/04/2015 12:59

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UncertainSmile · 17/04/2015 13:59

I think Super meant Nigel Farage, not the National Front

UncertainSmile · 17/04/2015 14:00

ici think super got the idea it couldn't be debated on threads like this who call ukip supporters thick, and ignorant.

Doesn't really encourage debate does it?

The worst insults came from a right winger actually. He said anyone who voted for Labour was a cunt.

UncertainSmile · 17/04/2015 14:02

What I don't understand is why is it OK for the SNP to be a national party, defending the rights and working for the benefit of the Scottish people only, but when UKIP want to put Brits first, that is racist.

Because the SNP aren't full of the dregs of the Far Right? Because Britain First and the EDL haven't advocated a vote for them?

nickersinaknot · 17/04/2015 14:04

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UncertainSmile · 17/04/2015 14:29

Interesting...

www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/another-ridiculous-error-strewn-ukip-leaflet-5535427

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 17/04/2015 14:30

I'll probably be torn apart for this but although I am and always will be a labour labour voter. I don't think UKIP are a racist party. They just think Britsh people should come first. I thought he made some excellent points. I'll be honest Like N.F I don't think it's fair that British people are being refused cancer treatment yet people are coming here and getting hiv treatment for nothing.

limitedperiodonly · 17/04/2015 14:37

I don't think that English teacher has done UKIP opponents any favours. Certainly not me.

Her approach reminds me of John Prescott's possibly apocryphal story of having a love letter returned with the spelling mistakes highlighted. Or people on MN who leap on posters who write 'loose' instead of 'lose' when they are talking about the death of a friend.

And the Mirror can fucking talk about poor SPAG.

limitedperiodonly · 17/04/2015 14:40

I've just looked again at that Mirror article by Sophie Gadd.

If I could be bothered to comment, I'd write: 'See me.'

RuthAaaghhh · 17/04/2015 16:05

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LunacyPays · 17/04/2015 16:13

For goodness sake, people are entitled to their views.

I am not a UKIP voter, Nigel Farage is a buffoon. But I am sick of the general view that if you don't vote to the left then you are somehow a bad person. I am so tired of Facebook posts telling me about the latest Tory evil-doing - implying that anyone who votes Tory has a heart as black as coal.

Ed Milliband is a wet dishrag, Nick Clegg looks perpetually confused, I know who I'm voting for.

SunnyBaudelaire · 17/04/2015 16:17

YABU - everyone is entitled to their views even kippers.
Besides why is it OK for Welsh or Scots to vote Plaid or SNP but not OK for English to vote for such a party?

MsRinky · 17/04/2015 16:21

Time for a bit of the Specials...

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 17/04/2015 16:23

YY sunny. I've always wondered that but if you were to ask you'd be Branded a racist.

UncertainSmile · 17/04/2015 16:30

I am so tired of Facebook posts telling me about the latest Tory evil-doing - implying that anyone who votes Tory has a heart as black as coal.

If the cap fits!

UncertainSmile · 17/04/2015 16:31

Plaid and the SNP are generally regarded as progressive parties. UKIP not.

nickersinaknot · 17/04/2015 16:32

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Jasmine2233 · 17/04/2015 16:33

My friend wants to vote ukip and she isnt a racist i think she has just brought into the whole 'foreign invaders' thing.
If your friend was a member of BNP or a member of EDL i would say she is probably racist.
UKIP some racist follow it and some dont.
Its really up to you how you feel, if you are really against it then distance yourself.

maliaki · 18/04/2015 08:11

Did the op ever turn up again and explain why she would cut off her friend for voting ukip but not for being racist before that? Can't see any updates using the phone...

Alisvolatpropiis · 18/04/2015 09:54

Jasmine - so your friend is racist, then.

TedAndLola · 18/04/2015 12:10

Same thing happened to me - found out through Facebook that a friend (not a close one) was a UKIP supporter. I had just added them. I scrolled through their feed to find out if they were racist or just misguided and found out they were racist, so defriended them and won't be bothering with them again. I wouldn't have done the same if they were just anti-EU.