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Julian Go
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Professor of Sociology & Faculty Affiliate, Committee on International Relations & Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago https://voices.uchicago.edu/juliango/
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Louise Nelson @llnelson919.bsky.social · 5d
I will say this
ICE is asking for retaliation
The ppl of Chicago will not sit back in silence
A civil war is what #45 wants
To declare martial law
To stop future elections so we can't vote their asses out
I hope the ppl see this for what it is
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Joshua Lenon @joshualenon.bsky.social · 5d
Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social · 15d
Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.
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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) @aissr.bsky.social · 16d
🚨 AISSR Lecture Series kick-off! 𝟭𝟳 𝗢𝗰𝘁 | 𝟭𝟰:𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬

With @juliango.bsky.social on how imperialism & colonialism shaped today’s militarized policing in the US & UK. Aftertalk with Rivke Jaffe (Urban Geograhpy)

Open to students, researchers & the public

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Militarized Policing and the Imperial Boomerang in the US and Britain - AISSR
Join the first AISSR lecture of the 2025-2026 series, that will be kicked off by professor of Sociology Julian Go (University of Chicago), exploring social dynamics, structures and the impact of empir...
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Aug 28
These counter insurgency units have long existed in local police in the US. What is unprecedented is that now Trump is creating one in the NG, which gives him the kind of direct control he does not have at the local level. This is now a militarized national police state.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Aug 28
More boomerang effect: Trump brings colonial fascism home, creating a new "specialized unit" in the NG: a national level SWAT unit under his direct command. Such units originate in America's early 20th century colonial wars & counterinsurgency campaigns

www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
An Army National Guard veteran says Trump's specialized unit is 'quite dangerous'
Army National Guard veteran Christopher Purdy says President Trump's executive order to create a specialized D.C. National Guard unit is a workaround to use the military as a domestic police force.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 25
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Aug 24
And Chicago isn’t even in the top us cities in terms of violent crime rates.

And even if it were, such a deployment would still be an abuse of power.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Aug 24
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.”

— Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967.

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Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 14
ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.

I am not making this up.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Aug 14
Don’t forget: “crime” by black and brown folks has long been the pretext for bringing the boomerang home, militarizing our streets, & deploying the tactics of colonial control on citizens.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 14
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Aug 6
AI is not inevitable. everyone is talking about it only cuz big tech invested billions and need to monetize it. It’s also why big tech turned on the dems and went for Trump: they hated Biden’s attempt to regulate it.

Follow the $. And policy.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
11/11 If the paper even insinuates that their study says anything about indoctrination, it betrays the authors’ own biases, & unveils the paper’s lack of objectivity. To get back to my point 2: I might assign this paper but not to praise it, rather as an example of poor science.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
10/11 I agree that controversy in scholarship should be taught. But this paper says nothing about whether it is or is not being taught.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
9/11 The paper can be commended for trying, but the only thing we can learn from the paper’s data is that certain texts tend to be assigned. Absolutely nothing can be concluded about what viewpoints are taught, much less anything about indoctrination. Nothing.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
8/11 The authors dismiss the idea that certain texts might be assigned to offer a counterpoint to dominant narratives in the world. They treat the classroom as hermetically-sealed, & as the only class students will ever get on the topic. Who thinks this?
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
7/11 The “two sides” of criminology is Sharkey vs. “radical” Stuart? I love Stuart’s work but it’s hardly “radical.” It’s rooted in deep scientific & ethnographic study, unlike this paper; there are definitely properly “radical” alternatives to Sharkey. Again: the paper is biased
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
6/11 Same with Said’s book. The only counterpoint to Said, according to the paper, is Huntington? There are countless critiques of Said, from both the right & the left (abdel-malek!) but they only bemoan the right (and the most discredited book among them, i.e. Huntington)
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
5/11 The paper assumes what the ‘both sides’ are & what a ‘scholarly controversy’ is. Of all the critiques of Alexander’s book they only bemoan the fact that conservative critiques are not assigned, not the critiques from the left. Scientific study is not Fox News.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
4/11 The paper does its own ideological readings of texts & then assumes that that reading is being taught. Re Said, e.g. they read Said as if he fails to recognize reverse orientalism. What? READ THE TEXT AGAIN.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
3/11 The paper has no do no data on what ideas from the book are discussed in class or why that book is assigned. Said’s Orientalism is important not because it is pro-Palestine but because it showed how ideology and imperialism are linked.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
2/11 It looks at what’s assigned not how it is taught. But we assign texts to critique not just praise them. That’s the whole point when you assign a text. But the paper assumes that just because it’s assigned it's uncritically praised. Is that bc that's how the authors teach?
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 23
Just read this paper discussed in @chronicle.com reported by
@EmmaJanePettit. It purports to show ideology in the classroom but is itself ideology masquerading as objective 1/11

www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
These Scholarly Topics Are Hotly Debated. So Why Don’t Syllabi Reflect That?
A new working paper suggests that many students are given only one viewpoint to consider.
www.chronicle.com
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 22
Of course Kirk doesn’t want sociology majors. He just wants laborers who he can hire to do labor for him and his rich friends and boss them around, not people trained to understand and call out wealth inequality or systems of control.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · Jul 18
6/6 and they despite young adults who have learned to question power structures, i.e. THEM. Smell the fascism; i.e. the authoritarianism of capital.