Julien Grayer
@wasabifunyuns.bsky.social
UW-Whitewater Asst. Professor of Sociology | Racial stigma, criminalization, interactionism| Posts are my own and not reflective of my institution so it goes
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Julien Grayer
@wasabifunyuns.bsky.social
· Feb 27
Opinion | Whitewater shows how moral panic distorts immigrant debate
Julien Grayer and others: Despite worry about immigrant crime, we discovered that immigrants have a 60% lower chance of being incarcerated.
captimes.com
Whitewater's been one of the cities that's singled out during the moral panics surrounding immigration (it was named in an EO!). My colleagues and I did some public sociology in Madison's Capital Times where we put facts to paper about immigration and crime in our town.
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Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The idea of white people watching the news and praying the perp is not one of them is SENDING ME 😂
Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox: “For 33 hours, I was praying that if this had to happen here that it wouldn’t be one of us. Somebody from another state, somebody that came from another country. Sadly that prayer wasn’t answered the way I hoped for.”
September 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The idea of white people watching the news and praying the perp is not one of them is SENDING ME 😂
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As batshit as this is, this is also how racists "wait for more information" in the aftermath of police shootings. They really aren't waiting for more information, they're waiting to hear that all the things they believe about the "Other" is true. Cox is just more blatant about it..
September 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
As batshit as this is, this is also how racists "wait for more information" in the aftermath of police shootings. They really aren't waiting for more information, they're waiting to hear that all the things they believe about the "Other" is true. Cox is just more blatant about it..
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the computer is good, continue being on the computer all the time.
Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
September 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
the computer is good, continue being on the computer all the time.
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Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽♀️
September 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽♀️
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When I was young, people adultified me to assign me all tesponsibiiity.
Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.
I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.
Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.
I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.
August 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
When I was young, people adultified me to assign me all tesponsibiiity.
Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.
I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.
Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.
I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities.
Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
July 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities.
Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
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The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department.
mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...
mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...
Glendale to Stop Housing ICE Detainees - MyNewsLA.com
Glendale city officials Sunday stated they were terminating an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security to house federal immigration detainees at the Glendale ...
mynewsla.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department.
mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...
mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...
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There’s a lot of nonsense about George Floyd out there this weekend. If you’re looking for a place to send people who need a correction, here’s my (very long) series addressing all the false claims about his death.
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
The retconning of George Floyd, part three: the great flattening
The revisionist campaign to exonerate Derek Chauvin is about one thing: preserving police impunity
open.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
There’s a lot of nonsense about George Floyd out there this weekend. If you’re looking for a place to send people who need a correction, here’s my (very long) series addressing all the false claims about his death.
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
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you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.
May 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.
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Jesus.
BREAKING NEWS: A jury finds three former Memphis police officers not guilty of all charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, including the most serious charge of second degree murder.
Three Memphis police officers found not guilty in the death of Tyre Nichols
A jury found three former Memphis police officers not guilty of all charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, including the most serious charge of second degree murder.
www.npr.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Jesus.
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This is wild.
Where by “wild” I mean “the sort of humiliating display of racist arrogance that will harm the US’s world-wide reputation in ways that will be impossible to fully repair in my lifetime.”
Where by “wild” I mean “the sort of humiliating display of racist arrogance that will harm the US’s world-wide reputation in ways that will be impossible to fully repair in my lifetime.”
1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is wild.
Where by “wild” I mean “the sort of humiliating display of racist arrogance that will harm the US’s world-wide reputation in ways that will be impossible to fully repair in my lifetime.”
Where by “wild” I mean “the sort of humiliating display of racist arrogance that will harm the US’s world-wide reputation in ways that will be impossible to fully repair in my lifetime.”
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The brilliant @ranitaray1.bsky.social has a new book out. Her first informed my own work so much, and I can’t wait to read this one! Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
April 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The brilliant @ranitaray1.bsky.social has a new book out. Her first informed my own work so much, and I can’t wait to read this one! Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
*opens door*
*MF Doom plays*
*MF Doom plays*
May 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
*opens door*
*MF Doom plays*
*MF Doom plays*
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Hey there! Just circling back
May 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hey there! Just circling back
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Unbelievable pictures from May Day protest in NYC today!
May 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Unbelievable pictures from May Day protest in NYC today!
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Trump take toy.
The two toy policy is the great leader’s year zero plan for forcibly tightening your belt so tight that everything that was ever in your pockets pops out into his and his sponsors’.
April 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Trump take toy.
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The canard of "anti-white discrimination" & "special preference" has been a bog standard argument of white supremacists and anti-civil rights reactionaries going back over 100 years (see Andrew Johnson's rationale for vetoing the CRA of 1866).
They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
April 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The canard of "anti-white discrimination" & "special preference" has been a bog standard argument of white supremacists and anti-civil rights reactionaries going back over 100 years (see Andrew Johnson's rationale for vetoing the CRA of 1866).
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Can’t say there’s disparate impact if you prevent analyses of data from happening or being considered at all. Without data & analysis, you can’t hold people accountable for perpetuating inequalities.
Trump signs orders to promote stricter school discipline, end analysis of racial disparities
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/04/24/trump-orders-stricter-school-discipline-less-focus-on-racial-disparities/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/04/24/trump-orders-stricter-school-discipline-less-focus-on-racial-disparities/
Trump moves to keep schools from examining racial disparities in school discipline — again
The Trump administration said the orders promoting stricter school discipline and a reduced focus on racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions would make schools safer and give teachers more tools to maintain classroom behavior.
www.chalkbeat.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Can’t say there’s disparate impact if you prevent analyses of data from happening or being considered at all. Without data & analysis, you can’t hold people accountable for perpetuating inequalities.
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Saddened by the passing of legendary sociologist Herb Gans. Ethnographer extraordinaire and so generous with his time. Quick to pose penetrating questions about my drafts. Thinking through the answers made my work better. He will be deeply missed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...
Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life
A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Saddened by the passing of legendary sociologist Herb Gans. Ethnographer extraordinaire and so generous with his time. Quick to pose penetrating questions about my drafts. Thinking through the answers made my work better. He will be deeply missed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...
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NEW: A Democratic congressional delegation visited Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE facilities in Louisiana today, to demand their release and observe conditions there. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/n...
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
NEW: A Democratic congressional delegation visited Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE facilities in Louisiana today, to demand their release and observe conditions there. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/n...
I just want to thank @k-till.bsky.social for being able to zoom into my Minorities in the CJ System class to talk about his article on coercive benevolence and carceral liberalism. I think students took away a lot!
April 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I just want to thank @k-till.bsky.social for being able to zoom into my Minorities in the CJ System class to talk about his article on coercive benevolence and carceral liberalism. I think students took away a lot!
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We on the left supposedly look down on Trump voters, but nobody has more disdain for Trump voters than Trump. He hates them and supports policies that will make their lives more difficult.
"46% of Head Start funding goes to rural areas, often in places without any other child care option..."
www.axios.com/2025/04/16/h...
www.axios.com/2025/04/16/h...
Advocates worry over possible cuts to Head Start
The decades-old federal program provides childcare, nutrition assistance and other services to the nation's poorest families.
www.axios.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We on the left supposedly look down on Trump voters, but nobody has more disdain for Trump voters than Trump. He hates them and supports policies that will make their lives more difficult.