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#BC HE DIDNT CONVINCE THE ASYLUM AGENCY THAT HE SPENT SUFFICIENT TIME AND EFFORT TRYING TO LIVE AS A GAY MAN IN IRAQ
todaviia
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#ive spent the entire day doing volunteer legal help for refugees who cant afford lawyers
#and theres something so INSANELY fucking alienating
#about spending hours writing an appeal for a gay man whos asylum claim got denied
#BC HE DIDNT CONVINCE THE ASYLUM AGENCY THAT HE SPENT SUFFICIENT TIME AND EFFORT TRYING TO LIVE AS A GAY MAN IN IRAQ
#(from his very asylum hearing on he described his homosexuality being discovered
#by his family member and how he could flee the house in the time it took his father to get his shotgun
#and the physical violence he suffered from another family member
#and how one of his uncles took ~pity on him bc he was only 18
#and gave him money to leave the country
#under the condition that he would never return or contact the family again)
#and seeing all these dehumanising and heartbreaking things in his file
#including super out of line questions etc
#and then go out and see the buses and trams of public transport all have these like cute rainbow flags
#like i cant imagine how it must feel like for him
#(or all the other lgbt afghans iraqis ugandans etc that i know)
#but it literally makes my fucking blood boil
#like actually one of the biggest arguments that get used against lgbt iraqis
#(and other non-western lgbt ppl)
#is the argument that lgbt rights are just a ~western degeneracy
#and then these people come here
#(the ones that manage and don't die either in their home countries or on the way)
#and then they realise that yeah we're all so proud of our lgbt rights
#its not just legal - it's also an advertising gimmick and a state sponsored party
#except for people like them
#we're completely comfortable sending them back to their deaths
#and like his chances for appeal are actually quite good
#but it's literally down to volunteers to even write that
#and there are SO MANY cases like that
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