In case you did not know, referring to yourself or others as refugees when moving tech platforms trivializes the many actual refugees in the world and "isn't very cash money of you" as the kids would save these days.
Also, my firewall is named NAT, so NAT is a firewall (fight me)...
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Omnipitaph
In response to this post@catsalad
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I know this is going to be a controversial opinion, but I don't agree that it trivializes the struggle of actual refugees.
I can NOT imagine someone seeing someone label themselves as a "twitter refugee" and thinking, "gee, all the rape and murder those children had to go through in Afghanistan is totally diminished now".
We experience the world through context. Language too. My suffering doesn't diminish the suffering of others— No suffering Olympics, yeah?
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🍄💀Shye Strange💀🍄
In response to this post@catsalad The dictionary term for 'refugee' is "a person fleeing to safety for political reasons." So how exactly does using words with their dictionary definition in one context trivialize an unrelated context? People are leaving those platforms for political reasons as they feel unsafe. You have created a symbolic association in your brain where the neurons have mapped the term 'refugee' to a particular context through repetition, which is firing when you hear it. But it's just a word.
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vinnatron
In response to this post@catsalad yep! It screams privilege.
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Ryan The Red 🖥️🚲🍺🏳️🌈
In response to this post@catsalad I refer to myself as an expat.
Also, my firewall is named "Sol", because it's the pivot around which my network revolves.
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