Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.

cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sure actual refugees have more to worry about than whether you’re offended on their behalf, mate

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  • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am certain actual refugees want to be taken seriously rather than have their collective noun watered down by upset internet users.

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Imagine, if you will, being so boring that you have to pick fights about how people word things.

      Listen, he said “refugees” and maybe that wasn’t the right word. But you know what? Both you and I both understood what they meant by that.

      The point of language… any language is to portray ideas between different people. In that context, OP did a fantastic job of that. we understood. Job done.

      Instead of providing any discussion of any value or merit, and apparently having the personality of wet cardboard, you chose to critique his word choice on how to describe those displaced by the issue.

      Nobody was confused. Nobody is going to conflate the struggles of actual refugees with the inconvenience of feddit being unavailable. There’s no confusion here. Fighting to reclaim the word “refugee” when nobody gives any shits about it (except you apparently), is certainly not going to win you any awards. I promise that refugees care less about what they’re called, or who appropriates the term for inappropriate uses, and they care more about migrating to a country where they will be safe from harm.

      Nobody is standing up and being proud of their refugee status, demanding that we treat their term with more respect… I know refugees, and I would think that all of them would have preferred to not have been forced to become one. Nobody chooses to be a refugee, you do it because you’re scared for your life. Scared of your neighbors, government, and national authorities. Nobody wants that.

      I know that refugees are proud of the fact that they now live in a place that’s not like the place that they left, but I have yet to meet one that’s proud that they had to flee.

      I’m pretty sure they couldn’t possibly give less of a shit about someone misusing the term “refugee”.

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      • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lost me at the first line, I’m not even reading that.

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    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sure you think you’re making the world better, but I promise you, you’re not. You’re just trying to make it more about you, and it’s insufferable

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      • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Couldn’t give a fuck about me tbh

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• lucidinferno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Displaced would be a better word.

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