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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    1 year ago

    Why don’t you let refugees speak for themselves instead of assuming you know how they feel or what they want? I’m sure they have much larger concerns in life than worrying about whether or not someone uses the evocative term “refugee” as a metaphor to describe their process of fleeing from Reddit to sites with a more palatable leadership and rules.