Ancestors

Written by Charlotte Walker on 2025-01-19 at 09:21

For the love of God, all you did was switch social media platforms. You are not a “refugee”

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Written by Amber (deilannist) on 2025-01-19 at 22:08

@purplepadma@beige.party yes ffs!

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Written by Amber (deilannist) on 2025-01-19 at 22:12

@purplepadma@beige.party if I had to pick a specific part of that post

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Written by Charlotte Walker on 2025-01-19 at 22:14

@puppygirlhornypost2 This is the point I was trying to make but I have been told today that I just don’t understand the seriousness of it for the people affected; that it’s just a metaphor; and that it’s just a meme

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Written by Amber (deilannist) on 2025-01-19 at 23:09

@purplepadma@beige.party I was personally impacted by Matt mullenweg’s increasing transphobia towards transfeminine individuals and his moderation mishaps. I migrated here, I was upset at the fact I lost my community, the people I cared about and so on. It felt very real to me. The problem with this is that in comparison to what refugees have to experience that is only a sliver. I had the real world, I had ways of communicating to my tumblr friends off platform through discord, cohost and other spaces. To put it in perspective - refugees do not have an escape. From where they come from their family may not have a cellphone. something we all take for granted today. Even if they did, it may not be feasible to take a phone with you on the journey, and when we get into international calls… there’s a very real chance that refugees say a final good bye to their families under the assumption they will never see each other again. Families get split apart during the journey, and it’s a one way street.

I could have made another tumblr account and tried to reunite with people. Refugees don’t have the opportunity to go back, not for years to decades after the fact. When they do go back there might be nothing to return to. The experience a refugee has a difference in several orders of magnitude to what someone who was kicked off of Twitter and went to bluesky has experienced. It is not the same thing, it’s still a hard to process thing but it is nowhere near the same. I didn’t have to navigate a foreign country, learn the laws, the currency, live there for years in low paying jobs that exploit refugees who can’t find work elsewhere. To make someone’s experience as a refugee a "meme" or to "joke" about the hardships refugees face is well to put it lightly disrespectful.

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Written by Amber (deilannist) on 2025-01-19 at 23:19

@purplepadma@beige.party I really wonder if the people who continue to use the term "refugee" in reference to someone migrating from Twitter to Bluesky or any other combinations of social media sites would understand it if i used a different word. I guess, the closest comparison I could draw would be if you replaced the term "canceled" with "lynched". Imagine if you will, people saying "They want to lynch me" instead of "They want to cancel me". I wish I could explain to you the discomfort I felt writing that. In highschool, when I was studying US history as a junior... kids in my class used that word in an inappropriate context and my teacher reacted in a way i'll never forget. She stopped class, full on stopped class told everyone to be quiet. We had a 15+ minute lecture about how it is inappropriate to joke about lynching, to use that word. How it is our job not to water down words like lynch because it erases history. It removes the severity of that word, the background. The people who died from lynchmobs, who lived their lives in constant fear of that one word. who watched violent mobs string up their family members in trees. If you wouldn't make lighthearted remarks about lynching, why is it okay to call yourself a refugee for the simple act of moving social media platforms.

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Written by Catlys on 2025-01-20 at 03:19

@puppygirlhornypost2 @purplepadma@beige.party we’ve learned the best thing to do is accept loss as inevitable and try to always make space for that which is coming into your life. We hope that soothed rather than hurt..

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Written by Amber (deilannist) on 2025-01-20 at 03:20

@catlystacia @purplepadma@beige.party I've channeled most of that hurt in providing for this instance. I like this instance, and the people on it. I like the fact they feel safe here.

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