"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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I'm very upset. I've mailed for quite a few years to an American woman
that I knew from my chicken group. We got on pretty well.
Last year she forwarded me a mail that I considered to be racist, but it
was only a few hours before I was due to fly to visit my German friend, so
I mailed a disapproving reply and said I'd like to discuss it with her
when I got back. I never did.

A few weeks ago she started to forward me pro-Bush mails. Well, I'm
sorry, but he seems to be a bit shall we say intellectually challenged, so
I said so.

But now, she is sending what seems to some sort of fundamental Christian
mails to me. Extremely racist, homophobic and right wing. I have
challenged her on every mail and she just got cross and said I was a
stupid liberal. There is more, but I won't bore you with it. I just
won't have her tell me that she refuses to let anyone into America and if
so they must speak English. For G's sake. If she was true to her word
she ought to speak Native American. It isn't her country, after all.

I told her I don't want to have a friend who thinks like this. She told
me she doesn't want to have a friend that is ineducable about what is
going on in America.

It will be painful for me to fall out with her, but I cannot tolerate a
racist and bigot. She thinks she is right, and I think I am right.
I can't see that being a racist and a bigot is right in any country. She
quotes the Bible at me. I told her that I didn't think God was a bigot.
This is hard for me. We have been friends, and we are falling out about
Bush. That was the first thing. I'll never compromise about the other
racism and homophobic stuff.
It might be the end of our friendship.

Tweed


Any friendship has boundaries. Your former friend doesn't recognize that.
But it is very easy to block email from someone you do not wish to hear
from. I'd recommend it.

Jo