Raul Perez
@raulperez.bsky.social
sociologist and author of The Souls of White Jokes (Stanford University Press) https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30308
FYI, this also happened today while Mamdani and Trump had their heart to heart meeting at the same time
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
FYI, this also happened today while Mamdani and Trump had their heart to heart meeting at the same time
Trump and Mamdani today, and basically all of politics
These Dogs Can Only Act Tough When They’re Behind This Fence! 😂
YouTube video by Infinitix
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Trump and Mamdani today, and basically all of politics
Ok WTF happened between Mamdani and Trump today. This is wild
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Ok WTF happened between Mamdani and Trump today. This is wild
When Alex Jones is supporting a “gen z protest” in Mexico, the people he’s cheering to be kidnapped/deported here by masked ICE goons, you know this is actually a right-wing coup attempt backed by the right in the US and Mexico. That and Vicente Fox sporting a One Piece T-shirt at the “protest.”
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
When Alex Jones is supporting a “gen z protest” in Mexico, the people he’s cheering to be kidnapped/deported here by masked ICE goons, you know this is actually a right-wing coup attempt backed by the right in the US and Mexico. That and Vicente Fox sporting a One Piece T-shirt at the “protest.”
Symposium today on humor and the Right. We will highlight the intersection of humor/comedy/memes etc. with issues of nationalism, race, gender, sexuality, fascism, and more, past and present and around the world. Free event, program and registration info below.
drive.google.com/file/d/17Hmj...
drive.google.com/file/d/17Hmj...
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Symposium today on humor and the Right. We will highlight the intersection of humor/comedy/memes etc. with issues of nationalism, race, gender, sexuality, fascism, and more, past and present and around the world. Free event, program and registration info below.
drive.google.com/file/d/17Hmj...
drive.google.com/file/d/17Hmj...
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Cool, so this means that the average first-time home buyer in the US can now expect to pay off their first home by age 90, which is only about 12 years after the average life expectancy of 78 years old in the USA 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Cool, so this means that the average first-time home buyer in the US can now expect to pay off their first home by age 90, which is only about 12 years after the average life expectancy of 78 years old in the USA 🇺🇸
Woke 2.0 > Trump 2.0
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Woke 2.0 > Trump 2.0
A brown, Muslim, socialist was just elected as mayor of New York City, the largest and one of the most diverse cities in the US. This was a “woke-lash” to white nationalism and Trump 2.0 Amazing
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
A brown, Muslim, socialist was just elected as mayor of New York City, the largest and one of the most diverse cities in the US. This was a “woke-lash” to white nationalism and Trump 2.0 Amazing
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![EPILOGUE
RACIST HUMOR AND THE CULT (URE) OF WHITENESS
"The time may come when [non-whites] and whites can tell jokes about each other in ways which do not reproduce racial categories of the world in which they are told. The time... is certainly not yet arrived."
Stuart Hall, Racist Ideologies and the Media"
OVER THE LAST TWO CENTURIES in the United States, the practice and politics of amused racial contempt has played a significant role in shaping a racist understanding of society. It has played this role across different eras of racial history—from slavery to post-emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow and from the so-called colorblind and post-racial era that emerged after the civil rights movement of the mid-oth century and into the present day. Amused racial contempt is a significant, and often over-Looked, social and affective mechanism that works to link individual, cul-tural, and structural dimensions of racism and white supremacy. It is used as an affective pedagogical tool that aligns and reproduces the ideologies and cultural emotions of whiteness, white supremacy, and anti-Blackness across societal contexts, social settings, classes, and generations. It is used not only by white people but also by non-whites who aspire towards the social power of whiteness and its class privileges.! It is a key feature in the everyday formation of whiteness and racism via a "white racial framing of society. In the current era, racist humor has also served to unite a broad swath of conservatism and white nationalism, in an ostensibly colorblind](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yupjodsb265htel3yennasoq/bafkreifewxc3sf3nsb6nq2jxo3ykdz3kyfieqnzl3sxc6mlgldltpvtu6i@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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With recent headlines and op-eps stunned by the pervasive usage of racist jokes by young republicans, I think it’s worth mentioning a recent book I wrote that might be useful for better understanding the historical and systemic roots of such humor
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
With recent headlines and op-eps stunned by the pervasive usage of racist jokes by young republicans, I think it’s worth mentioning a recent book I wrote that might be useful for better understanding the historical and systemic roots of such humor
With recent headlines and op-eps stunned by the pervasive usage of racist jokes by young republicans, I think it’s worth mentioning a recent book I wrote that might be useful for better understanding the historical and systemic roots of such humor
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
With recent headlines and op-eps stunned by the pervasive usage of racist jokes by young republicans, I think it’s worth mentioning a recent book I wrote that might be useful for better understanding the historical and systemic roots of such humor
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This, from the lawyers who sued the organizers of the neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally, is good. They come to the same conclusion as @raulperez.bsky.social's book on using humor to mainstream racism.
Apparently, it works.
Apparently, it works.
Opinion | It’s Never Just a Joke, JD Vance
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This, from the lawyers who sued the organizers of the neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally, is good. They come to the same conclusion as @raulperez.bsky.social's book on using humor to mainstream racism.
Apparently, it works.
Apparently, it works.
Thanks for sharing @victorerikray.bsky.social It’s good to see more people are finally talking about this, but so often they frame it as something new or novel and can’t seem to make the historical or systemic connections. Would have been helpful if they’d read my book prior
This, from the lawyers who sued the organizers of the neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally, is good. They come to the same conclusion as @raulperez.bsky.social's book on using humor to mainstream racism.
Apparently, it works.
Apparently, it works.
Opinion | It’s Never Just a Joke, JD Vance
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thanks for sharing @victorerikray.bsky.social It’s good to see more people are finally talking about this, but so often they frame it as something new or novel and can’t seem to make the historical or systemic connections. Would have been helpful if they’d read my book prior
MSM normalized the rise of fascism in the US, to the point that politics has literally become shitposting
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
MSM normalized the rise of fascism in the US, to the point that politics has literally become shitposting
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HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is
No kings, no ice, no kkk!!
No racist, fascist, usa!!
No racist, fascist, usa!!
October 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
No kings, no ice, no kkk!!
No racist, fascist, usa!!
No racist, fascist, usa!!
Really enjoyed the opportunity to share and discuss my work today with various students and faculty at the University of Glasgow. Really appreciate the invite/ hospitality from colleagues in @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social and @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
Today! Come along to our co-organised colloquium with @uofgsps.bsky.social Politics & International Relations & @uofgsociology.bsky.social
'The Souls of White Jokes'
Dr Raúl Pérez
10 Oct, 11-12.30
Room 257, Wolfson Medical Bldg, University of Glasgow
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @raulperez.bsky.social
'The Souls of White Jokes'
Dr Raúl Pérez
10 Oct, 11-12.30
Room 257, Wolfson Medical Bldg, University of Glasgow
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @raulperez.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Really enjoyed the opportunity to share and discuss my work today with various students and faculty at the University of Glasgow. Really appreciate the invite/ hospitality from colleagues in @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social and @identitiesjournal.bsky.social