Episode 23: Unfriended

Conversations with People Who Hate Me

Dylan Marron & TED

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jabari and Andrew were Facebook friends until the 2016 election tore them apart and one unfriended the other. Dylan connects them on a phone call for their first extended conversation about what happened.

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Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Rob Wilson (logo designer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:17.6	I don't think we're friends are we you're not friends wait so who unfriended whom oh God I don't even I mean probably me
0:23.0	Are you I don't know it's definitely you Andrew Andrew? Okay, so Jabari, it wasn't you.
0:24.0	No.
0:25.0	Then I guess it was probably me.
0:26.0	Oh my God.
0:27.0	Yeah, but he did send me that really shitty meme.
0:29.0	Hey listener, a quick favor.
0:31.0	We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful
0:34.0	if you could take just a few minutes to respond. Please visit survey
0:37.5	dot PRX.org slash Ted to take the survey today. That's survey dot PRX.org slash Ted. Thanks. Hey and welcome to conversations with people who hate me, the show where I take
1:00.4	negative online conversations and move them offline. I'm your host, Dylan Merin. Now in some episodes I chat one-on-one
1:08.1	with folks who wrote negative things to me directly, while other times I moderate
1:12.2	conversations between strangers who clashed with each other.
1:15.9	Today I'm moderating, but not between strangers.
1:19.8	My guests today are friends, or they were friends. They are unfriends.
1:26.0	Jabari and Andrew had been Facebook friends for over a decade when they clashed
1:30.3	over their political views during the 2016 election, but it's not how you might expect.
1:35.9	They are both active participants on the left.
1:39.1	Andrew is proudly a Democrat, while Jabari supports and even ran for local office with the Green Party.
1:45.6	Their disagreements online, which were ultimately about how to best achieve progress, became
1:50.8	so toxic that one unfriended the other.
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