Someone has suggested I create a thread containing some of my explainer threads. A meta explainer thread, if you will...😁 They cover both science and UK politics. I hope others continue to find them useful. I'll update this as and when I do more of them👍 🧵of 🧵s

🚨🇬🇧 Look, Lucy Connolly is not the brightest button, so let's help her understand why she went to prison for her tweet, and why Bushra will not go to prison for her's. Bushra Shaikh is not saying: “Go and burn white people’s houses down.” She is making a sarcastic point about the racist double standard at the heart of these riots. When a Muslim, Black, brown, or migrant man commits a crime, the far-right does not just blame the individual. They blame the whole community. They march on mosques. They attack hotels. They threaten families. They burn infrastructure. They turn one person’s alleged crime into a licence for collective punishment. When a white man commits a crime, nobody asks whether we should burn down white neighbourhoods, attack white families, or terrorise random white people in retaliation. Why? Because most of us understand the basic moral principle here: individuals are responsible for their own crimes. Communities are not collectively guilty because of the race, religion, or immigration status of an offender. That is Bushra’s point. Lucy Connolly’s tweet was different. She did not ask a sarcastic question exposing the absurdity of collective punishment. She targeted migrant hotels - the exact infrastructure already being demonised by the far-right - and wrote: “Set fire to all the fvcking hotels full of the bastards for all I care.” And then mobs did exactly that. That is not a clever point about hypocrisy. That is not anti-racism. That is not “free speech absolutism.” It is language directed at a vulnerable out-group, in a volatile real-world context, approving or encouraging the destruction of the places they were living. Bushra’s post says: “Why don’t you apply your own logic when the offender is white?” Lucy’s post said: “Burn down the hotels full of migrants.” If you can’t see the difference, I can't help you.

One shining light on this hellsite is Emma, whose informative and well researched debunks are essential reading given all the misinformation floating around. She’s well worth a follow.

Another excellent thread from one of the best lie detectors on this toxic misinformation hellsite

I love that we now have video evidence in the man vs Bear debate! 😁

Brilliant debunking of a poisonous report in certain "news media".

Maybe you need to read this @ZiaYusufUK - you moght learn something. Wonder if some unconscious bias training for you might help? Thanks to @MonkEmma for another excellent debunk of RW pure, cold rage…… And well done Thames Water - they get some stuff right

Thank you @MonkEmma for exposing the absolute tosh that’s peddled by those that seek to divide for their own benefit.

Emma on the case again. Sharing to do my bit to get the truth into the world

Emma nails it again

Every day someone on the New Right makes some big claim that 'indigenous' people are being disadvantaged. That claim is often amplified by journalists who ought to know better and before you know it the lie has become a meme. Emma is invaluable in countering these falsehoods.

Emma should be employed by @ofcom I don't think of anyone better to bring the out of control UK media to heel.

Once again, another excellent debunk by Emma! So damn sick of Reform rage-baiters and lazy, biased media giving them a platform! Unfortunately, a BA in English Lit does not a decent journalist make! 😠

@reformparty_uk is costing the country money when it spreads lies. Here @ZiaYusufUK talks shite, engages a client journalist, posts an article in a newspaper that ought to do better topic background. Money that could be better spent actually helping our youth. Read this 👇