AIBU to remove MIL from Facebook?

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MIL added me to FB years ago. Like many older people, she uses it a lot to post pictures etc and I use it very occasionally for personal reasons but follow local groups etc, which I find really useful. Hence, why I don’t want to take myself off.

Anyway, increasingly, MIL shares awful, racist posts. Often shares Britain First memes etc…it’s horrendous.

Partner is not like this at all. Years ago we had a big sort of discussion/argument with her at Christmas where he said that demonstrated how he would never change her mind.

Anyway, fast forward to now and I’m
getting so angry with some of the things I see. I tried to ‘hide’ her so I wouldn’t see her posts but it hasn’t seemed to work. I said to other half that I was going to remove her and send her a message along the lines of ‘sorry I’m going to have to remove you but I find many of your posts very upsetting but no hard feelings’. To be clear, if this was anyone else I would have done this ages ago!

AIBU to do this? Do I have to put up with the awful racist behaviour so as not cause any issues? I just feel like if you see this you should call it out, but equally do understand his unease.

Help!!!

I'd have no qualms about deleting anyone from my FB who posts racism or anything similarly bad, or the nosey lurkers for that matter. 😬

I'm going through similar with my family. Working in gojng extremely low contact in life.

I don’t use Facebook so I may be wrong but….

I think if you are a friend of or otherwise linked to someone’s Facebook book account there are ways other users will see that you are linked. If that’s correct I would want to do whatever was necessary to stop being linked to a racist, even if that meant she wasn’t happy about it.

I realise many FB users will know she is your MIL and that you are linked in that way, but sharing that link online feels different to me,

I don’t see the need for all the drama/sleeping on it/sending her a message. It’s Facebook, you aren’t going no contact. Just remove her.

Why say anything? It's social media not a business contract. You have lots of options. Just mute or hide. That way they stay on your friends list but you don't see there posts. There is no flouncing out or drama. Your conscience is clear, you have pulled her up on comments in person. You are not breaking up with her, stop over thinking, you don't have to make Sunday awkward.

My DH muted me on Facebook because. I was liking too many standard poodle photos and he got a notification every time I clicked. It took me months to notice. I had posted a rare photograph of something and asked if he had seen it.

Just mute her. It's nothing to do with what phone you have. Facebook is the same for everyone. Unfollow her and you'll not see it.

It's not a big deal.

Thanks to everyone who bothered to comment. The range of replies mirrors what’s been in my head - terrible racist, remove her to silence her and don’t cause drama.
As explained, I had unfollowed her and some posts have recently slipped through, and another person said this had happened to them.
I’ve reported a few of her posts so that was really useful to know.