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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Real talk. Anytime a group of human beings are described as a debate, problem, or question that is gutter bigotry cosplaying as concern. There is only horror at the end of that road.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Civil rights is a chain that is only as strong as it's weakest link. The SECOND you accept the premise that some communities do not have full civil rights, then you have accepted the bigoted worldview and you have no grounds to stand on when they come to erase your civil rights.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Perhaps a cultural hot take- When it comes to liberation, respectability politics has a 0% success rate. It has never liberated a single oppressed or marginalized group. All it does is turn a bunch of people into Sergeant Waters from A Soldier's Story.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Real talk - The fate of anyone who argues for their own inferiority is betrayal by the bigots currently clapping. It is inevitable.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My hot take is that many Americans do not understand bigotry, so they don't respond to it with their whole chest. Rather than the sole product of ignorance, I believe that bigotry is a moral and political commitment to a society split into those deemed superior and those deemed inferior.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Bigotry loves to cosplay as "concern"

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Labour thought they could compromise with bigots and keep both the opponents of Bigotry and the victims of bigotry in their coalition at the same time. The amount of mental gymnastics required to think that is even possible is astounding to watch.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Anti-transgender bigotry is a classic example of when bigotry cosplays as concern.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It's almost been a year since my first book "On Bigotry" was published by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social . @liberalcurrents.com & @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social gave it positive reviews. This book is for anyone who wants to push bigotry back into the fringes of society, where it belongs. #booksky

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I have an entire section of my first book about how and why bigots cosplay their bigotry as anything other than what it is.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I wrote this lesson about how bigotry works because I read the history of the end of Reconstruction and Jim Crow.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I said it once, I'll say it again. I wrote this book for times like these to help people understand how bigots thinks, how the act, and how they justify themselves.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Read this book as an undergrad and it still informs how I understand culture

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If you don't understand how gender shapes everything, including politics and economics, then you really don't understand the world. So much becomes intelligible when you consider what gender studies has to say.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Power is a prerequisite for oppression. Power is not a prerequisite for bigotry of any variety.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It's also worth pointing out the silence coming from all the factions who scolded all the politicians, advocates, activists, and scholars over the last 11 years for sounding the alarm on attacks on civil rights for " engaging in identity politics" after the New York times published this headline

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Considering how you've been a vocal advocate of cultural moderation, how would you advise people respond to this?

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Once this @nytimes.com transcript gets the country's attention, the discourse is going to get wild in ways we haven't seen since Baldwin and Buckley were debating in the UK.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Never underestimate the sheer brutality that moral panics can unleash on a society because a moral panic will convince people to do horrible things to other people.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

From my book on how bigotry works- The useful idiot has to believe that they are the exception to the bigotry they are directing at their group and that the bigots won't turn on them once they are no longer useful... aka: "the face eating leopard won't eat MY face."

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

If you think of replacement theory as a political ideology that creates policy, law, and political identity, a lot of what you're seeing and hearing in the discourse becomes intelligible and terrifying. Bigotry always tells on itself, y'all.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

It is telling how some of the loudest voices in the last decade who built their profiles dismissing anti-racism have all displayed a sudden mastery of anti-racist thought once the racism that they claimed was overblown started calling them slurs. Bigotry is wild. Wrote a book about it this year.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Lesson 1 and 2 of my book on how bigotry works are what they are for a reason.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

If you ever forget who you are, sooner or later bigots will remind you.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Digging into it, Crockett is leading with Black men, Black women, Latino women, and is at 45% of White women. Talarico is leading with Latino men, White men, and is at 46% of White women.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I wrote this book for times like this.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Published in July of this year by Bloomsbury

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

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