> so tired of broadscale general refusenik attitudes
You can use whatever software you like on your computers, but you're not entitled to have everybody else follow your choices because everybody else has exactly the same freedom to choose as you do. And if you want to persuade people to follow your lead, name calling is a bad strategy (much less ethnically charged name calling...)
The anti-systemd crowd dishes it out like crazy & gets minimal blowback. I'm done letting them be monsters with small minded attitudes, ragging & raging with old crusty attitudes that refuse refuse refuse.
I have heard people use refusenik numerous times & never once has it crossed my mind or seemed remotely related to any ethnic matters. There does appear to be a definition though. Alas. It's a great fucking word, makes me smile, feels well crafted & spry, & I detest giving it up, relinquishing it: but I hereby renounce my previous usage & give it up. Blast. Now there is only absence.
(Also, usually name calling is bad because your insulting someone for being something. New here, but I don't think refusenik in the ethnic sense is at all slanderous or insulting though? It's a comment more upon the totalitarian state & a contravention of Declaration of Human Rights than it is a comment on the person? So I'm not sure that there's any victims to the modern reuse & repurposing of this word, unlike most terms that had some ethnic aspect. Indeed, the extensive & adaptive history of usage of this word seems to show ever growing rift in meaning from it's original use, & little fear that just because there was an ethnic situation we cannot use it... I begin to think you protest too loudly.)
You can use whatever software you like on your computers, but you're not entitled to have everybody else follow your choices because everybody else has exactly the same freedom to choose as you do. And if you want to persuade people to follow your lead, name calling is a bad strategy (much less ethnically charged name calling...)