1/ It's hard to find words that don't cheapen, belittle, glorify or dismiss what happened during the Holocaust (Shoah). It's also hard to find words that make sense of the numbers involved. 6 million Jewish people, murdered. Entire families, gone.
#HolocaustMemorialDay #Holocaust

2/ Their property, land, art, culture & achievements stolen and erased. Many are still fighting, 75 years later, to regain what was taken from them - physically and mentally. It is almost incomprehensible, yet it happened. But it didn't start or end there.
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3/ Another 11 million people were murdered throughout the Holocaust era. Others targeted included the disabled, the LGBTQ+ community, Black people, Roma, Poles & other Slavic peoples, Jehovah’s Witnesses, prisoners of war & members of political opposition groups.
#genocide
4/ If we held a minute of silence for every known victim of the Nazis we would be silent for over 32 years.
5/ Sadly humanity didn't learn & there have been further genocides by a variety of groups claiming purity, religion or territory as their reasoning. So how do we respond to this? How do we try to be better?
#Darfur #Cambodia #Serbia #Rwanda #Rohingya
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6/ I don't claim to have the answer to this. All I can do is share my response. I try, every day, to be watchful for the warning signs. Genocide doesn't come from nothing, it builds like a landslide from tiny pebbles. I see some of those pebbles right now, in the UK.
#Fascism
7/ The demonising of 'other' - refugee, Muslim, Black, poor, disabled. The dismantling of the welfare state. The cries of 'herd immunity', the devaluing of life because of 'underlying health issues', age, life-limiting illness, disability or ethnicity - eugenics by another name.
8/ The rallying behind flags & myths of Empire, pristine & free from the slavery & death that built it. The dream that everything will be better if we follow the 'vision' of a pompous, incompetent clown of a statesmen who's become a rallying point for the far right & extremists.
9/ We have concentration camps, though they're known by other names, where we imprison not just adults but children, torn away from their parents, where they're dying scared & hungry & alone. The world is dark, so what can we do?
#Refugees #Detention
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10/ We need to not look away. We need to see it & we need to challenge it. So how do we do this? Together. We stand & raise our voices together. We support & love each other. We raise up & protect each other. We remember that when they come for one of us, they come for all of us.
11/ We amplify each others voices to call out the systems, policies, practices and people who perpetuate suffering & inequality. We also acknowledge that we're human & sometimes we need to rest today so we can keep caring tomorrow.
#BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
12/ We strive to keep seeing the beauty & wonder of the world & the people in it. We remind each other of the joy & love & laughter that make living worthwhile. And above all, #WeRemember.
#NeverAgain #LightTheDarkness #togetherwearestronger #HolocaustRemembranceDay #Shoah

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Two things can be true at once:
1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues
2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action to bully colleagues into silence is not a good faith champion of the free speech cause


I have kept quiet about Matthew's recent outpourings on here but as my estwhile co-author has now seen fit to portray me as an enabler of oppression I think I have a right to reply. So I will.

I consider Matthew to be a colleague and a friend, and we had a longstanding agreement not to engage in disputes on twitter. I disagree with much in the article @UOzkirimli wrote on his research in @openDemocracy but I strongly support his right to express such critical views

I therefore find it outrageous that Matthew saw fit to bully @openDemocracy with legal threats, seeking it seems to stifle criticism of his own work. Such behaviour is simply wrong, and completely inconsistent with an academic commitment to free speech.

I am not embroiling myself in the various other cases Matt lists because, unlike him, I think attention to the detail matters and I don't have time to research each of these cases in detail.
It is simply not correct to point fingers at wind & solar energy as we try to understand the situation in TX. The system (almost) had a plan for weather (almost) like this. 1/x


It relied on very little wind energy - that was the plan. It relied on a lot of natural gas - that was the plan. It relied on all of its nuclear energy - that was the plan. 2/x

There was enough natural gas, coal and nuclear capacity installed to survive this event - it was NOT "forced out" by the wind energy expansion. It was there. 3/x

Wind, natural gas, coal and nuclear plants all failed to deliver on their expectations for long periods of time. The biggest gap was in natural gas! The generators were there, but they were not able to deliver. 4/x

It may be fair to ask why there is so much wind energy in ERCOT if we do NOT expect it to deliver during weather events like this, but that is an entirely different question - and one with a lot of great answers!! 5/x

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