CARTOON: ‘Time to Unfriend’

From cartoonist Clay Jones about ‘Time to Unfriend’ and unfriending not based on supporting Trump but definitely for Star Wars spoilers

I made comments about making a Star Wars analogy this week, but I honestly didn’t plan to. What do you know? I got one in anyway.

There’s been a social media trend over the past few weeks to ditch friends on social media who support Trump. I’ve seen posts stating, “If you support Donald Trump, then go ahead and unfriend me now.” A lot of people don’t have patience or tolerance for the Trump Trolls.

I think most people don’t like to hear anything they disagree with. But c’mon. It didn’t take Donald Trump to reveal which of your friends are bigots, racists, homophobic, xenophobic jerks.

Yes, it’s hard to tolerate someone who supports a candidate who runs a campaign like a school yard bully without any specifics. It’s hard to reason with someone who supports bigotry and can’t grasp nuance. But I take the position that it’s good to know which of my friends are idiots and support the total and complete destruction of the United States of America.

I’m not unfriending anyone for supporting Trump. It goes the other way too, and if they’ve spent all these years tolerating my liberal views — which they hate — then I can put up with their being a troll. Well, at least the ones who haven’t blocked me yet.

Sloppy, hateful politics I can tolerate. If you spoil Star Wars for me, I’ll kill you. Not literally, but in the virtual world I will do to you what Obi Wan Kenobi did to Darth Maul. Yes, I will chop you in half and drop you down a seemingly bottomless energy shaft on Naboo.

In fact, anytime I see “Star Wars” in a post, I continue scrolling. I won’t finish reading the sentence. I will not read a “Star Wars” review, no matter how bold the text claims it doesn’t contain spoilers. I’m going to see the movie anyway, so no review can influence whether I see the movie or not. The bad thing is, I might be the last person to see the movie. I need to find a way to go into a Facebook/Twitter carbonite freeze until I see the movie.

From claytoonz.com