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Niet omdat het een vrouw is hoor, maar we hebben toch altijd een beetje een ongunstige bijsmaak bij Lauren. Net iets te close met de Identitairen van Defend Europe en vereerd door net teveel net verkeerde types. Gelukkig heeft ze een zus met een moeilijk dikke reet dus dat maakt een hoop goed en daarbij lijkt het erop dat ze nu zowaar een boeven-NGO omgeduwd heeft.

Even voorstellen: **Advocates Abroad, levert juridische, medische en logistieke bijstand aan aspirant-Europeanen in Griekenland. Wordt gesteund door Cambridge University, Oxford, Georgetown University en de voormalig leider van D66 UK, Tim Farron. Directeur Ariel Ricker verschijnt in het bovenstaande undercover-fragment door de producent van Southerns docu Borderless (transcript en volledige fragment na de breek), en zegt samengevat letterlijk het volgende: 1) Het is een kwestie van acteren en we leren mensen trauma's op zo'n manier te acteren dat het door de European Asylum Support Office (EASO)-selectie komt. 2) We leren mensen hoe je medewerkers ervan overtuigt een christen te zijn door op een bepaalde manier te bidden en feestdagen te omschrijven. 3) Liegen mag, als je maar consistent bent. 

Sindsdien heeft Advocates Abroad hun Twitter-account en Facebookpagina met minstens 138.8K volgers gedeactiveerd of verwijderd. Maar vlak daarvoor liet de organisatie nog de onderstaande reactie uitgaan. "Advocates Abroad was made aware of a heavily edited video version of an informal conversation (...). The video is being used for political right wing effect and misconstrued to fit an anti-refugee and anti-human rights political agenda. This is a shameful act of cowardly abuse." Het enige moment dat op audio-editing lijkt is op 6:14, maar het is waarschijnlijk gewoon een volumecorrectie.

Volgens Southern heeft UNHCR's Associate Communications Officer @Boris Cheshirkov gereageerd met: "UNHCR is alarmed be these reports". 

Detailtje dat het noemen niet waard zou moeten zijn, maar dit wel is omdat er in YouTube-comments op Southern's video weer vrij hard op gegaan wordt: Ariel Ricker lijkt van 't oude volk, en dus valt ze volledig samen met de alt-right Barbara Spectre tropedat joden er middels massa-immigratie op uit zijn het blanke ras te vernietigen.

"So we teach them how to like literally, [maakt betrokken geluid] sometimes it's as simple as this, and then how to tell their story, how to frame it, how to literally explain it. How to keep their private emotions and private trauma private, because all of this acting is a shield. 

Do you have to coach people on like, physicality? Yeah, I see it like, I tell them this is acting. All of this is acting, it's all acting as though this is theatre. So for them to get through they must act their part in the theatre, and that is the refugee trauma. Because these European Asylum Support Office (EASO) officers are so fucking stupid that all they know is what is written on the paper. EASO says "This is refugee trauma, they have these characteristics". So we coach these people how to have these characteristics. 

So like there's a formula we came up with (...). It's like significant events, date and location, answer all the questions in the same way. [Voorbeeld] In December 2017 in Izmir, Turkey, I was threatened for being a Christian, because my boss jumped me when I was leaving church, this is the Bible they tried to tear up, this is the crucifix I was wearing they tried to tear and it made me feel unsafe as a Christian in Turkey, Ba-Boom. And that way you have the event, date and location, so yo've given them a very specific answer (...), it's much harder to refute, because you have all the elements in there. (...) Consistency is the most important thing, even if you find yourself in a position where you have to lie, it's best to just stick with what you've just said.

They put in the decision whether or not you were acting with emotion, so you have to be like [sighing and crying] or crying or stopping or throwing up or asking for a break, so it's becoming an actor. You have to tell people to ask to take a break? Oh we do, we actually do role play. We prepare for them a folder, so like the first role playing activity we do is like us being them, and they're the officer. And then we flip around after they've had some practice to see how I should walk into the officie, how should I introduce myself? How should I give them the folder, and then how do I sit down, and then when do I stand up? When do I show them how to pray?

Why would you need to show them how to pray? Because it's a good way to show honesty. This is done in other places too, like not good places, to see if you're truly what you say you are. If you can't show how to pray... If you're actually a Christian? Mhmm.  Oh, so if you're saying you're fleeing persecution? Then you should probably know how to be, you know, praying that way. They also ask like what's your favourite holiday, but we explain you can't just say this because it's not a sufficient answer. You have to say this in a certain way which is like December 25th, which is Christmas which is the birthday of our Lord and Saviour."