Paul KrugmanThis is not the dystopia we were expecting https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/opinion/columnists/elon-musk-twitter-oligarchs.html
daniel s.@pkrugman it's a good article but I hate that you embrace the term "twitter refugee" because switching websites doesn't even remotely compare to the hell a refugee endures
Graham@selfagency @pkrugman that's a good comment but I wish you wouldn't refer to "hell" in your post which is a Christian concept that excludes members of other religions
@[email protected] my father was born in a displaced persons camp in 1945 and his parents saw their entire families slaughtered. they would have fucking loved if all that anyone wanted of them was to switch websites. so please, shut up.
@selfagency if you're gonna police language, you're gonna get a bunch assholes telling you to piss off. This conversation already reached the logical endgame-- insults.
People are going to keep using language in ways you don't like, thicken your skin or stay off social media.
@graham congrats on being my first server-wide block dickhead.
SamuelJohnson@selfagency @graham As a bystander to this discussion I have great sympathy for the sensitivity of child of actual refugees to casual use of the word. However, the manner in which this was expressed and subsequent discourse was sufficiently odious that I have muted the offender.
Mirishuli@selfagency @graham @samueljohnson Well said. I do,not want my timeline to turn back into the toxic bird site feed. I will block everyone and anyone who brings the conversation down like this. There is simply no need to speak to one another in this way. Two to block now.
Taylor Lawrie@selfagency @pkrugman There are thousands of people using the term Twitter Refugee every day. It sucks that you have good reason to feel triggered but your personal crusade won't change anything in how people use this term.
@ttlawrie one tweet = "personal crusade"
jesus christ you fucking clowns are fragile
Kayo@selfagency @ttlawrie Actually you’re the fragile one attacking everyone trying to have a civil discourse with you. Words are borrowed every day and juxtaposed with other words, that doesn’t diminish the importance or cruelty of that word. People just seem to look for something to offend them.
@selfagency @ttlawrie I agree with you on that point. Sometimes let’s just take a breath and chill for our own mental health.
@selfagency @ttlawrie Absolutely right. Sadly that’s the world we live in now. Have you seen legions of people, mostly poor who fastidiously defends inhuman billionaires?
@selfagency Actually I was responding to you telling the first responder to shut the fuck up. However , I take your point. On reflection "upset" would gave been a better choice of word over "triggered". It may take a bit of time for me to come down from Twitter
@ttlawrie i'm pre-loaded against reply guys who tell minorities they're unjustly policing the rich and powerful
@selfagency fair enough but we don't attack millionaires just because they are millionaires. They need to be caught doing something wrong first. Like it or not Twitter Refugee is firmly in the lexicon at this point
@ttlawrie uuuuuuh yeah sorry my dude i'm an anticapitalist and um there are lots of shitty phrases in the lexicon i don't have to tolerate the use of