Remember that old Latin dictum: “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto?” In my case, there's one thing I do consider alien, and that's being afraid of the unknown, and especially of unknown, different people.
I'm reading a thread where someone is expressing their fear of a massive migration to Fedi from Twitter. It all feels xenophobic and egotistic. “I liked it when my world was just my own little bubble, but, with every expansion, it became less and less my own, and I hate that.”
Well, I don't. I like meeting new people, visting new places, listening to new languages and exposing myself to different points of view. And, yes, I still use the mute button more times than I'd care to count, because I'm also aware that 95% of everything is shit, but you have to expose yourself to it if you want to discover that 5% that's really worth it.
I despise people who are not open that way. You don't have to like everything (I certainly don't), but why would you preemptively close yourself to it? It feels narcissistic: “I have never left my tiny village, but it's obvious to me that there can be nothing better beyond its border walls.” Smol brain, if you ask me.
@josemanuel doesn't sound like xenophobia to me... "I'm not like them at all and I despise them" does though.
@namark No, in my case it just means I'm a bad person, but I don't hate people just because they come from somewhere else or don't belong to my group. They do.
@josemanuel I look up, I get "Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange". I guess you meant it in a more primitive sense of some sort of location (even though virtual?). Still, the quote doesn't sound like it.
@namark I didn't quote anything. Whatever I said, it was all an interpretation on my part. Let me get you a link to the thread. Here it is:
https://shitposter.club/objects/56abfaf2-33bc-401c-bf05-a8742fed1394
To me it sounds exactly the same as when European xenophobes talk about “the Christian roots of Europe” to justify their rejection of muslim inmigration, but YMMV.
@josemanuel You misunderstand, I'm qoto's resident points-out-your-logical-mistakes reply guy, so what you wrote is the only thing that matters to me, really...
@josemanuel To clarify, what you described seems more like a "fear" of crowds. In any public space the more people there are the less that space is yours. That is obvious. Egotistical perhaps to hate that, but not xenophobic. The OP in the link does not seem to identify any specific "foreign" people either. It's seem just "more people = bad" as you described.