Nicholas Mitchell

I think that a lot of people have went to great lengths to ignore the fact that the decades old progressive multicultural coalition imploded in the aftermath of the 2024 election, so all of this interracial discourse is happening in a post-solidarity sociopolitical environment.

Something that I think gets lost in how King is remembered is how he was thrust into the Civil Rights Movement right when African-American culture experienced a profound shift political thinking following Brown v. Board and the murder of Emmett Till. He had to figure it out.

Ah. The new version of woke right vs woke left arguments just dropped.

Grace is what you get at the end of atonement.

Contrary to popular belief, Grace has to be earned & part of that is being confronted with the full scope of the harm you have caused.

Hanania's transgression was that he cosplayed bigotry as philosophy & science to make life worse for millions. Earning that grace is going to be an odyssey for him

@jamellebouie.net is pointing out that grace is not a free pass. It requires accountability.

One of the iron laws of all forms of authoritarianism is that the oppression tactics they perfect in the ghettos will inevitably be imposed on Main Street.

This is true of all forms of authoritarianism, including fascism.

It's the same motivation that reduces Jim Crow to separate water fountains rather than the state sponsored sadism that it actually was.

This reminds me of how the self described anti-woke writers and public intellectuals started talking about "the woke right" rather than admit that "woke people" were right in their predictions about what was about to happen.

The reason there is no mass movement against what's happening is that the liberal (includes self described progressives, leftists, and marginalized communities) coalition in the US imploded in the wake of the 2024 election.

I find it odd how this fact rarely gets brought up.

Want to learn how to respond to fascism? Study Black history. It’s perplexing how Americans, when discussing the dangers of fascism, invoke the memory of German Nazis and not American segregationists.

There is a reason that bigots have gone to great lengths to suppress Black history and thought in the popular culture.

All knowledge is power.

www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

History tells us that granting anyone with any amount of power anonymity and legal immunity always leads to them abusing people increasingly horrific ways.

This is an iron law of civilization.

Well. Guess this is what I'm listening to over lunch.

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

The first question is " where does this leave the 3rd of non-white voters who voted for Trump and whose entire quality of life in the United States is the product of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?"

My second question is "How will the cultural moderation & identity politics is bad advocates respond?"

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

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.

I'm glad you are enjoying it.

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.

Evidence is pointless when the goal is to vice signal.

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.

How do you reconcile this position with the success of the Civil Rights Movement, which was an explicitly and multigenerational Black identity politics movement, over Jim Crow Fascism?

Bigotry warps the mind.

The impact of mass deportations on American race relations.

Everything makes perfect sense when you think of toxic masculinity and replacement theory as ideologies that create law, domestic and foreign policy, and political identity.

Opinion | The fight between Vivek Ramaswamy and "heritage Americans" Nicholas Mitchell: Like all forms of bigotry, the "heritage American" idea is an incoherent concept.

My latest essay with @ms.now on the rise of heritage American rhetoric and that it means.

www.ms.now/opinion/heri...

I'm surprised that no one has brought a mandamus action against the DOJ for refusing to encourage the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which contains the explicit disparate impact enforcement under title 7.

Replacement Theory when it becomes an ideology that produces Policy, law, and political identity.