HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth
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"...fled myself from the #BorgSite after #QLoon's takeover, I did see myself as a #TwitterRefugee of sorts. And, even with hindsight, it was. #Twitter and connecting with my big network there, though not my home, had become a big part of my life.
In a global #townsquare, it is impossible to not alienate someone verbally or photographically portraying people (e.g. girls/women not wearing a headscarf with users from many #Muslim countries)...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth
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I can see this point very well.
At the same time, language is and always has been fluid and constantly evolving.
Humanity is ever more, for better or for worse, migrating into the digital space.
If you have no choice but to leave your digital home, and for a lot of people the social media sites are their 2nd home, then it is ok to apply the language to the same concepts.
IMO, this (serious) use is not a "watering down" of the language....
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth
(2/4)
...but the application of it to a new area.
If you have to leave your home at short notice without the possibility of ever going back (in particular, if it does not exist anymore), you flee from it and, thus, become a (digital) refugee.
In this case, however, it is not even a new use. It is just not the limited special use, according to webster.com:
"REFUGEE:
one that flees
especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or..."
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth
(4/5)
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This clearly shows, that finding the lowest common denominator would virtually eliminate the freedom of expression.
The "politically correct" movement that led to making it next to impossible to voice some thoughts cannot be applied on a global level. Fortunately, because this can only lead to an #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime.
Like the travelers of old, we need to be more tolerant of...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth
(5/5)
...what and how people are expressing themselves and not be offended right away if they say things in a way that might offend us, if it came from someone from our culture.
(This does not apply to users deliberately insulting others, of course.)
So, live and let live, instead of #IanFleming's "Live and let die".
Or, as Jeremy E. Sherman, phrases it: "Be intolerant of intolerance!"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy/201501/be-intolerant-intolerance
These are my two cents.
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@HistoPol @david @darren @Bluedepth well in this case its more about being specific and understanding what the words we use mean and where they come from.
This matters because if we water down language so much until all words can mean the same thing, it also becomes hard to express ourselves accurately. And marginalised experiences like in this case that of refugees become even more invisible.
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