Trolling
Earlier today my mother posted an FDR quote on Facebook: "Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting."
So naturally I replied, "Spoken at a time when most black people didn't have the legal right to vote." Given that several members of her Floridian claque of middle-aged, middle-class Jewish ladies had already liked the entry, I figured that would spark a debate. Pointing out that a "progressive" icon like FDR based all four of his presidential election victories on Jim Crow hegemony would surely offend someone, right?
Except that when I logged back in a couple hours later, the comment had disappeared. So commented again: "Did you delete my comment? That was cowardly."
I'm not sure what to resent more:
So naturally I replied, "Spoken at a time when most black people didn't have the legal right to vote." Given that several members of her Floridian claque of middle-aged, middle-class Jewish ladies had already liked the entry, I figured that would spark a debate. Pointing out that a "progressive" icon like FDR based all four of his presidential election victories on Jim Crow hegemony would surely offend someone, right?
Except that when I logged back in a couple hours later, the comment had disappeared. So commented again: "Did you delete my comment? That was cowardly."
I'm not sure what to resent more:
- my job for being so boring that I have nothing more interesting to do than trolling my mother?
- Facebook for making it possible for me to troll my mother?
- my mother, for doing a better job of raising me to think critically than developing the capacity in herself?