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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Twenty-eight years ago today, we got hitched at the Camberwell registry office in South London. Our love sure brought the racists out of the woodwork. We were treated individually to comments like "But you're soooo different..." and "Ew, White people are filthy...". Idiots!

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Owning Up: No responsibility, No Justice open.substack.com/pub/subrena/...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/beyond-mel...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

At bottom, pseudo-philosophers are bullshitters, in Harry Frankfurt’s sense of the term. Frankfurt distinguishes bullshitters from liars. Liars have got to keep an eye on the truth, because they’ve got to avoid it. But truth is irrelevant to bullshitters.

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Conversation with George Makari on "Humanity on the Line: Resisting Dehumanization, Erasure, and Atrocity Amidst Divides" at the MLK Jr branch of the Cleveland Public Library, an event for the 90th anniversary of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

In the Americas and Western Europe, the paradigmatic form of racism is anti-Black racism. In central and eastern Europe, the paradigmatic form of racism is antisemitism. Magda Teter argues that they have a common root.

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

What the mailperson brought. The Lebanese edition of my book Making Monsters

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Excellent discussion of how dehumanization transmutes people into monsters. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dil...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

My newest Substack essay. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/.../from-hum....

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

As Halloween's coming up, and horrors are unfolding in the world, I'm reposting this essay. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/i-am-the-w...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Like weeds, races are not biologically unified, and also like weeds, races are hostage to changing historical contingencies and cultural practices. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/weeding-ou...

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