Day 179: Ignorance Is Bliss

I belong to several groups on Facebook that are for local issues, including schools, and they’re a great way to keep up with what’s going on in my community. There’s one group that deals with all sorts of town concerns, from water quality problems to lost-and-found items. It’s a good group, probably because the administrators are so determined to keep it clean and friendly. But, I always seem to arrive at the page right after they’ve deleted something juicy that everyone else is still talking about, and it leaves me feeling like I’ve missed out on something. So I decided to join the uncensored community group, which is where people post the kind of things that get deleted from the other group. I thought it would be fun.

But I was wrong. It is not fun! There are about two thousand people in the group. I don’t know how many of them are active, but the ones who are post the nastiest, most insulting memes and the worst propaganda and the most idiotic misinformation. And they are not there for discussion. If you try to talk facts, they’ll assume you’re a liberal (which means, to them, enemy) and then the insults will start flying. And they support Trump!

Having removed most of the Trump supporters from my friends list, I haven’t had to see much of this kind of stuff for the last few years. I remember what it was like before the 2016 election, though. I told my husband then that I thought Trump might win because I was seeing so much support for him on Facebook. And it scares me now to see so much support for him in this group.

It’s a small group, though, and because it’s uncensored, it attracts a certain type of person. So I am not going to read too much into it. In fact, I think I’m going to stop reading it altogether. I see now that I really was missing out on things before I joined the group, but they were things that I was better off without.

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