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.