Democrats Are 3 Times More Likely to Unfriend You on Social Media

&gt; There are a number of possible explanations for the different rates at which various groups unfriended others over politics.<p>Throwing one more on the pile: Perhaps self-identified Democrats were more willing to <i>create</i> social-media links with broader sets of other people in the first place, which now means a correspondingly greater scope for un-friending during controversial periods.<p>It&#x27;s easier to avoid un-friending a person if (A) you have very strong requirements before you mark them as friends in the first place or (B) your friend-set is small in absolute terms.

From my exp I had three hard line Trump supports remove me. I don&#x27;t generally post anything on FB, but I do sometimes point out issues with other peoples posts.<p>One removed me because he posted all these things about how it wasn&#x27;t fair people called him racist, so I told him my personal experience of him calling Mexicans, Native Americans, and other people lazy and that that was racist.<p>Then two others stopped talking to me over chat because I debated them on their beliefs that poor people are only poor because they are lazy, immigrants are not here to have sex with &quot;our&quot; women, Muslims are not inherently evil, and on and on. They quickly grew tired of me poking flaws and not being a &quot;liberal strawman&quot; like they wanted and they stopped talking to me.<p>I&#x27;m not a democrat, but man it was a nasty election...

Tribalism in politics. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

In a discussion on the subject on Facebook I commented: &quot;I&#x27;d wager it was partially related to the fact that conservatives were far more likely to share fake&#x2F;biased news stories than liberals. Note, of course, that liberals were far from immune as demonstrated by sharing the likes of Blue Nation Review, Daily News Bin, etc.&quot;

Good.

Sticking their heads in the sand is part of the reason Democrats are losing ground.

This must be all of that tolerance and diversity that we keep hearing about...<p>Okay, that sounds kinda snarky. But seriously, the level of hatred, contempt, and intolerance coming from the Left these days is a huge turn-off. Not saying there&#x27;s no hatred on the Right, but they don&#x27;t seem to broadcast it and revel in it the way that the Left does. Most of the vaguely hateful stuff I see from the Right is something that somebody on the Left dug up from some obscure place to try and smear the Right. It trips my irony meter pretty hard when they do all this, and then talk about how it&#x27;s the other guy that&#x27;s all about hate, in the most hateful tones of voice I&#x27;ve heard anybody speak seriously in.