YEP.

If we go with the pop cultural definition of working class, which excludes post secondary education credentials, then every single trade school/vote graduate is not working class.

Noah is correct here with bigotry. People are more comfortable labeling bigots are ignorant than immoral because labeling something immoral requires direct opposition which is uncomfortable. Ignorance simply requires instruction to be fixed.

I did my first international public lecture about my book last week! Special thanks to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social for making the lecture and the book happen. If you have an hour, check it out "Hate is who I am: Bigotry as Identity Politics." youtu.be/ypUKujG_c1w?...

I'm honored to be a part of the Bloomsbury lecture series. I wrote On Bigotry for times like these and until we confront that bigotry is more than simple ignorance, we will never escape the shadow it casts over everything. #academicsky #booksky #academia #racism #bigotry

Join us next Thursday, as Nicholas Ensley Mitchell talks about bigotry: how it works, how it spreads, and what we can do about it. Register here: https://bit.ly/42pc6bZ

I wrote this book for times like this.

Yeah, the first time I saw that I was cited in a book it freaked me out a little bit.

Wrote a whole book on why thinking bigotry is just people being uninformed is a mistake because it's deeper than that.

Bigots cosplay their Bigotry as philosophy, concern, and science for a reason. It works. Wrote a book about it.

Any analysis of African American political and activist culture in the 21st century that leaves out the impact of Hurricane Katrina should not be taken seriously.

Something that @jelaniya.bsky.social said that is true is how hurricane #Katrina had a similar impact on Black America that 9/11 did on the country as a whole. It really changed how Black culture saw America & was the impetus for millennial Black activists to discover critical race theory.

A theory: As a movement, wokeness was not destroyed by the right. Rather, the center left & left destroyed it because they did not want to be political accountable to woke folks who wanted to move away from class only politics. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social does this pass muster in your view?

It is astounding to see how many people have convinced themselves of the opposite but the statement " all politics is identity politics" is simply factual. When you accept this, observing and studying politics becomes so much easier.

The audiobook book version of my first book "On Bigotry: Twenty lessons on how bigotry works and what to do about it" comes out on all audiobook platforms August 26th. Narrated by me.

I had history professors at my Southern University who would describe chattel slavery in all of its horror and students would cry and say "they had not been taught this before."

A plain text description of the middle passage and chattel slavery reads like a horror movie. I have never seen a museum or a history textbook do a plain text description.

As a southerner, I look at these images and they are unrecognizable as elite because, I think, respectability has a regional aspect that complicates how Blackness is understood internally. Dr. Jefferson raises the critical question: How does Black culture want to be seen by the world?

I don't know when or why the idea of colorblind law became frowned upon in the world of critical thought....but I think we should take it back and rediscover the Houston-Pauli intellectual tradition. #academicsky

Bigotry is it's own political and economic ideology.

Bigots will cosplay as leftists, progressives, liberals, conservatives, and anything else they think will help them sell their bigotry as anything other than what it is. Do. Not. Fall. For. It.

One of the lasting impacts of hurricane Katrina is that it really changed how African American millennials understood racism in American society. Terms like institutional & systemic racism entered the pop cultural lexicon & a generation of future advocates discovered critical race theory.

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Something I notice in the entire discourse about the male loneliness epidemic, the crisis of masculinity, and the manosphere is the absence of male voices that are not lonely or in a crisis of masculinity. It seems to me that exploring how these dudes feel about all of this is a good research line

One of the more interesting aspects of the entire discourse of how society should teach men to be masculine is that it is also an admission that gender is not innate. It's a formal, hidden, and social curricula This entire moment is one giant cultural fight over what the curriculum should teach.

I agree. This is why the first mental faculty that bigotry destroys is morality...it's easier to brutalize people if you think it is morally required.

I think people forget about the John Marshall Harlan-Earl Warren-Charles Hamilton Houston-Pauli Murray intellectual tradition of colorblind law and the colorblind constitution. #academicsky

A question that rose in my mind after reading this engaging retrospective on wokeness as a social movement, which was once so powerful that it got Biden elected in 2020, is how does African American culture view the global sociopolitical life of a philosophy it invented to survive Jim Crow sadism?

I think more people should look at the historical and contemporary discourse around masculinity in African American culture for frameworks of how to have these conversations.

How DARE YOU.... describe the process of writing a book.

Real talk - Critical theory only works if it is grounded in moral and ethical considerations. Without it, critical theory goes intellectually sideways with a penchant for justifying cruelty quickly..

Real talk - sometimes, you have to go into the intellectual archives to find insight and solutions for current social problems.

I got my start as a public scholar publishing with the conversation. I love this.

The sheer amount of people who fall for #bigotry's disguises is astounding. #booksky #academicsky

As much as I value debate, I have to agree with the last positivist. From my book:

"To be certain, collective guilt sits at the heart of bigotry because it holds every member of a community responsible for the actions of an individual or group. Collective punishment flows from collective guilt in the sense that the whole must be punished for the actions of a few." #booksky

From ancient temples to seminaries to every successful political movement across the political spectrum, this is tested and validated praxis across time and culture. There's always, as Dr. Cottom points out, folks dedicated to teaching the new cohort the basics.

I will always be confused at the identity politics versus class politics discourse because, last time I checked, class is a form of identity politics. Why are folks acting like class, race, gender, region, ECT can be detached from each other when folks don't exist in silos? #academicsky #politics

#bigotry is more than simple ignorance. It is a political and economic ideology and moral worldview. No community is immune. When folks accept this, they will stop underestimating it. #booksky #academicsky www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-bigotr...

Reading @victorerikray.bsky.social "On Critical Race Theory" and thinking about the archive of African American jurisprudence before Brown v. Board, specifically what unconsidered doors Yick Wo v. Hopkins opens in 2025.

True because #bigotry of any variety destroys the ability to morally discern and to think in those foolish enough to embrace it.

The table of contents from my first book- On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #bigotry #racism #booksky #sexism

TAKE. CARE. OF. YOUR. GLASSES. and congratulations!

One of my favorite things is to discover a new term that describes something I've been seeing in the world. Shout out to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @nberlat.bsky.social for introducing me to the concept of "vice signaling."

Before @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social decided to give me the opportunity to write a book, I published multiple essays with @msnbc.com. Here is a sampling: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

My first book, "On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It" came out a week ago and is now available in hardcover and e-book edition with an audiobook version coming out in August! #booksky www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-bigotr...