It's a long story but no not really. 3 years ago she started with the fascist post sharing on FB. And I mean all the tiny groups, the Infidels, the EVF, the ED, Britain First. And whenever I confronted her or her brother (who also shared their stuff but actually posted on the edl groups pages himself so I just gave up on him) she would say it was all a misunderstanding,, she didn't realise who they were, didn't share their extreme views etc. For 2 years I argued patiently with her over it then it came to a head after Lee Rigby when she was sharing the openly racist repatriate them all now shit. Eventually she calmed down enough to sort of apologise to a young woman friend of mine who is Muslim and had had abuse after Rigby's death. Nobody should be abused just because of their religion she told her. Then 7 days later she was sharing Britain First stuff again about the Burkha! So I told her then I couldn't stomach it anymore and defriended her. Minor action as that sounds it caused ructions in the family and my mrs had to act as go between for months
It all came to a head again last week when I saw through my son's FB page that she was back to sharing BF stuff. And to make it worse was accompanying it with comments like "Patriotism is NO CRIME" (the caps are her's not mine, she shouts, a lot) That was St George's Day. I said I didn't want my son exposed to criminals like BF through his auntie and it all went ballistic from there. She took great offence at me suggesting she was exposing her nephew to criminals (I might also have said child abusers, I wasn't pulling any punches). Her answer on Friday was to go for the full bnp angle. Oddly she seems to think saying bnp is worse than saying BF. Then on Saturday she was back to it was all a mistake line and she'd never knowingly support the bnp. Which would have been more convincing if she didn't 24 hours later stick another BF post under my son's nose.Any way I declared myself a nazi appeaser free zone on Saturday, banned her from my house while I'm at home. Mrs BB is totally fine with me on that and thinks her sister is making a mistake, but obviously she's still her sister and she won't be cutting her off. The trick now is for me to avoid inflaming the family row even more without backing down.
To make matters worse I've seen three other friends of mine with what I thought were robust Tory views but no worse, share BF stuff this last week. Short of defriending them all I've opted for the "come on guys, these pricks upset Rigby's family with their antics in the elections in Wales" line which is having mixed results convincing them to pack the nazi posts in. It's like a fucking epidemic.
