[quote redcarbluecar]@Linning, where have you got all that from? The OP hasn't said she enjoys racism, nor has she done any bragging. Nor has she said she didn't do anything about it. If anything the OP has been a bit sparse with the detail. I took the scab/irresistible comment in the OP to mean that she HAS been challenging the bigoted posts but is now wondering whether to just hide them instead i.e. questioning whether it's worth it.[/quote]
I took the irresistible in it's literal sense as '' Can't help but be drawn to them'' and her OP as an, ''what do I do, do I unfriend her or continue to enjoy the show while inwardly raging''.
As a person of color, when people see racist folks online and/or offline but are like ''can't be bothered to confront them'' BUT ''might keep them around for entertainment purposes though'' I find it extremely hurtful.
Those people, whoever they are, are through their words attacking and spreading and preaching hate towards real people, people like me and my family, and the fact that some people have no qualms looking the other way and fail to acknowledge that what they (might) see as entertainment is a system where those people continue to participate and give power to a system that, to this day, continue to oppress people like me, is highly problematic.
It screams of privileges. It doesn't matter that this person wouldn't change her mind, the goal isn't necessarily to have her change her mind but it's when you see something wrong, CHALLENGE IT, don't let those people go unchallenged and continue to cause damage. Silence can be as deadly as active racism, most people in Germany during WW2 probably didn't take a stance either way because they thought what they did at their scale and thought wouldn't matter, their silence is in part responsible for the 6 millions Jews who died.
For me if you can't be bothered to fight racism at your scale because ''you don't see the point'' and ''she won't listen anyway'' and would rather not try, then you aren't that bothered by it to start with and are actively complicit.
I genuinely don't understand the point of threads where people come to get a pat on the back (not that they would say they do but it always seem to be the spirit) because '' Saw a racist/xenophobic/homophobic prick today, didn't confront them but managed to hit the unfriend button successfully, phew!"
Like cool you now don't have a racist person in your friend list, you still work with her and she still doesn't know you disagree with her view and might assume you don't mind. How is that success? Nor a good thing? Nor worth a thread? (though I guess the last one could be said for most of AIBU)