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23 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Good intro to Stenner’s work on authoritarian personality (33% of people). Useful to understand Twitter discussions +
+ people on here overwhelmed / threatened by complexity, in discussions about covid, gender, Brexit. (Not just one *side* on any of these either.). +
Stenner’s challenge for any of us trying to change minds of others is how to communicate without pushing away all the authoritarian-personality people. +
+ complex / messy / counter-“intuitive” claims especially hard.

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22 Sep
I'll be live tweeting this for those who can't join, speaking now @JC_Hathaway , the dean of international refugee law. Tune in though, he's fascinating!
Nothing in the Refugee Convention says refugees have to claim asylum in the first country they reach. States can chose how they respect the Convention - refugees can choose their country of asylum - JCH
when the Refugee Convention was being drafted, Australia argued refugees should only used legal routes - so the rest of the states made clear that's wrong in the language of the Convention
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27 Aug
Thread by @setoacnna 👇 explaining important U.K. judgement, which rejected long-standing “gender critical” legal arguments as hopeless.

Adding a few comments of mine 1/
‘Legal feminist’ a group / website led by the junior barrister who represented the unsuccessful claimant hopes there’ll be much more litigation by anti-trans people and trans victims of discrimination 2/
I can see why lawyers hope for litigation. AEA took in around £100K from their supporters for legal fees. (The court was told the junior barrister acted for free in this case - so that went to solicitors and the QC) 2/
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20 Aug
Now ‘LGBA’ attack NGOs working for LGBTQI+ asylum-seekers, based on claim that someone can’t find published info about persecution in an *unidentified* country.

Most likely explanation: there *isn’t* reliable info to publish about persecution there. ImageImage
LGBA hasn’t identified the country or missing reliable material or asked NGOs to publish it.

They haven’t done any work. Instead they are trying to undermining credibility of orgs who do. Orgs whose credibility matters for asylum-seekers they claim to care about.
This isn’t how LG allies behave. Real allies would raise problem directly with the - really hard pressed - NGOs who specialise in working for LG asylum-seekers.

Neither original tweeter nor LGBA says they’ve done this. Instead they tweet criticism that can’t be addressed.
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17 Aug
IMO UK immigration strong general policy of refusing to concede first-level Tribunal appeals stems from 2 Ministerial policies:
1. For consistency, only senior case workers can approve positive asylum decisions. (Juniors don’t need approval to refuse tho!) +
2. Net migration targets meant HO would rather fight very weak cases, because they win a few and can blame the others on judges. (Migration targets dropped but culture unchanged so far.) +
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17 Aug
I’d put one thing differently: refugees do have agency. They want to shape their futures.

Refugees aren’t a different kind of human. They’re humans in a terrible situation. Their agency is denied - they want it back.

We are all potentially refugees.
Maybe authors of the Geneva Convention should have spoken of “people in a refugee situation”.

Labelling people as a category can be a powerful device but it also underpins othering.
Some refugees don’t like the label. They want to stop “being refugees” and move on.

But some own the label and that’s fine too.

I’d want to listen to refugees on it. This is great. Ht @michelleknorr
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16 Aug
THREAD. 100 years ago, Britain gave safe haven to 250,000 Belgians fleeing war.

Can UK do the same today for Afghanis?

Does U.K. suspend its anti-refugee policy - or will it abandon British exceptionalism? 1/12
I feel anti-refugee strategies depend on a coalition of:

-the complacent (“world is pretty safe, anyhow they can go back to France”) &

- the scared (“world is dangerous, they’ll all come here”).

1st lot want Gov to do just enough. 2nd lot want Gov not to do too much 2/
Patel’s strategy has been overtly aimed at the complacent - “legal routes & safe countries”.

(While she feeds press to keep the drumbeat of fear).

UK presented as strong, fair - not weak. 3/
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