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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 18h

Would you agree that Obama showing up is the wrestling equivalent of the Undertaker gong or the glass breaking with stone cold?

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 23h

My second book is on the impact of Dobbs on sex education curriculum theorizing and the idea that the right to choose is an "abstract interest" is just bizarre.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why would this lead to the dismantling of the electoral college?

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think this is a worthy endeavor because after AOC made her comments, there was a good amount of discussion doing exactly this. But there was also all these writers basically dreading the possibility of a woke 2.0. That reaction always caught my attention.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm all about folks doing an honest accounting of Woke 1.0, starting with actually defining it, marking it's beginning and end, talking about successes and failures of the various movements, and the how's and why's of why the larger movement lost political power.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think it's telling how many media outlets have simply refused to press these advocates of colorblind meritocracy who are also openly hostile towards civil rights laws on how they reconcile that glaring intellectual and moral contradiction.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The iron law of bigotry is given enough time and opportunity, a bigot will unam- biguously confirm their bigotry toward groups they deem inferior, threatening, or degenerate in word, action, or both.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At some point, we are going to have to talk about how many of the most prominent advocates for White supremacy in politics and online belong to groups that White supremacists loathe with every fiber of their being. At some point, that contradiction must be elevated to the center of the discourse.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is fact provided the intellectual foundation for the arguments I make about bigotry in my book. When you accept this fact, a great deal about the world becomes clear and many of the narratives are exposed.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never forget how many of the most vocal "facts don't care about your feelings" advocates turned out to be so censorious that they ended up advocating to ban entire academic disciplines because they didn't like what the facts said.

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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 · 28/09/2026

A lot of people forget that in a patriarchy not every man gets to be a patriarch.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While I agree that anti-intellectualism is a huge problem, I think we need to pay as much attention to pseudo-intellectualism.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think we had forgotten how much the mainstreaming of concepts like privilege, marginalization, institutional racism, and systemic racism really upended what was at that point the normative way that people talked about racism. The discourse never went back.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

American popular culture has straight up forgotten the sheer number of outraged opinion pieces that launched a lot of careers that were all accusing Black millennial activists of redefining racism because they started talking about institutional racism over interpersonal racism.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An important shift in in the national discourse that I think gets overlooked is the shift within black millennial culture from talking about racism as a personal moral failing to talking about institutional racism and that shift starts with hurricane Katrina and ends with Obama.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a difference between a diverse school and an integrated school. That difference is the quality of the diversity. The question people should ask: Is the student body actually in community with each other or a bunch segregated racial and ethic groups occupying the same campus?

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you're going to hate an ideology or an argument, understand it on its own terms. Then you can hate it properly.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyone who tells you that there is a single reason that a school does a good job or a poor job in educating students is lying to you. Creating the conditions for learning is a complex relationship between home community and school. But nobody wants to acknowledge that.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It has been wild watching some folks who spent the last decade demanding that people use their privilege to help marginalized communities attack Nikole Hannah-Jones for trying to use her privilege to help a marginalized community.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It really does shift your perspective of American society when you accept the fact that the resistance to desegregation never ended and there is a lot of cultural capital invested in never acknowledging that fact.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every compromise with bigotry is a step towards bigotry.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mills' idea of viewing white supremacy as a consequential ideology in human history is straight up one of the cornerstones of my book on bigotry.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When it comes to white supremacy as an ideology, I think a great many political philosophers are still shook the argument and implications of Discourse on colonialism. So they avoid the subject and chalk up all this horror to simply being the product of ignorance.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With the exception of the most galling bigots, I believe that most white supremacists know that they can't actually defend the historical record of white supremacy without sounding like moral monsters. So, they try to historically gaslight the World by downplaying the impact of white supremacy.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is a national about integration and the access to transformative curriculum in the United States that this essay speaks to but the culture at large simply does not want to have.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why is K-12 like this? Because of two SCOUTS cases that said 1) There is no constitutional right to an equally funded education & 2) segregation by law is unconstitutional but segregation by custom is constitutional. Combine that with how access to curriculum is treated as a commodity and gate kept.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A key part of Louisiana anti Black Bigotry trying to cosplay as philosophy is the classic "it's your fault that I'm this way!" gambit which lets the bigot claim to be a victim.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who do you think has the juice to win?

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When a political movement won't condemn the bigotry done in its name, it is fair to assume that the movement simply doesn't consider bigotry to be a deal breaker. The justification does not matter.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Context is King. Establish the specific historical contexts that puts all the philosophy that you are about to teach them in its proper context because that establishes the limitations but also the long-term applicability of these ideas. Stress that understanding motivations is not condoning them.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My simple demand for anyone who demands that a marginalized community accepts having their political rights sacrificed for "the greater good" is that they tell me which civil right that they currently possess are they willing to sacrifice to pick up two two points in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Considering that all Taylor Sheridan shows are diverse to the point where racist chuds got mad at 1883 and 1923 for having indigenous story lines and the sheer outpouring of grief across America for the death of Dolly Parton, it's obvious this writer has never been to an SEC game tailgate.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The guy who wrote this article cannot comprehend the rosters of any football team at any University in the South and could not find where most of those guys are from on a map.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It is fair to assume that people who will not condemn bigotry refuse to do so because, regardless of professed politics, they simply agree in whole or in part.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A lot of consultants don't realize how rolling over on trans rights is signaling to other groups that the party is willing to roll over on their civil rights to appeal to bigoted voters. That big tent don't stand and I think this concern is helping primary challengers beat incumbents.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

People need to accept that bigotry is a bipartisan malady.

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

My question for the "we have to compromise on civil rights to win" advocates is: "which civil right that you currently have are you willing to sacrifice pick up 2 extra points in Kenosha?" People forget, or ignore, that civil rights are a chain that is only as strong as its weakest link.

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

@polphilpod.bsky.social and I had a hour long conversation a few months ago about why compromising with bigotry never works. Yet, some public figures and institutions think they can do something that has a 100% failure rate and expect different results. www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/bigotry

politicalphilosophypodcast.com

You cannot compromise with bigotry - Nicholas Mitchell

What is bigotry, how should we think about it, and why a strategy of appeasement will never work.

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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 · 11/09/2026

History tells us that folks who roll over on civil rights for one group will inevitably do it to another group. Turns out, throwing communities under the proverbial bus becomes habit forming.

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

Wasn't Obama's 2008 position that he supported same-sex civil unions that had all of the exact same rights as marriage?

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

In the history of politics and society, compromising with bigots has never stopped them from making more deranged demands because they interpret compromise with their nonsense as a sign that those who compromise lack conviction in their own values.

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

Depraved people hated being reminded of their depravity.

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

The antebellum South's obsession with civility and refinement was how the enslavers coped with the reality of their depravity and they HATED when anyone bluntly pointed out their depravity.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I get why people who are concerned with fascism in America constantly look at Nazi Germany as a model, but those people need to look at how Jim Crow governments functioned, the political rhetoric they deployed, and how they used state power to terrorize millions of people for generations.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm always a bit surprised that the demand for reparations for Jim Crow is not louder in America. None of the arguments against reparations for slavery apply to Jim Crow.

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Nicholas Mitchell @nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a Black Southerner, these deaths absolutely are activating historical memory.

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