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Let's Not Throw The Word "Refugee" Around To Describe Having To Switch Social Networks (sea-watch.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dumpsterlid@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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We live in a world where 500+ refugees just drowned off the coast of
Greece while the global north took photos from afar and just let it happen.

We live in a world where even a democratic president in the US is shutting the doors to asylum seekers in the U.S. and not receiving any significant political blowback for it.

We aren't refugees for having to find a new website.

I am NOT saying this to scold people or to talk condescendingly down from some high horse as if I am more righteous than others, I just don't want this word to catch on because there is so much pain and suffering happening to refugees in this world.

Imagine you were a refugee and you joined the fediverse because you were curious about it and the first thing you saw was people calling themselves refugees for having to... make an account on a new website. Would you feel welcome or like this place was for you?

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[–] NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Okay, I'm fine with borrowing a term from post-cyberpunk transhuman works - infogee. We're leaving one place and seeking something still. Rather than physical refuge, we seek information. We could also be called commugees, as many of us seek community. If you wish to retain refugee to mean "a person seeking physical refuge", I understand it; but understand that the connotation will still be understood, and we all understand that our hardships are not theirs.