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Begging for it: Ole Miss prof urges people to stick their hands in Republicans’ meals
The National Sentinel ^ | 10/18/18 | USA Features

Posted on 10/18/2018 12:31:07 PM PDT by SleeperCatcher

Not Smart: A professor at the University of Mississippi has called on people to desecrate the meals of Republicans by “sticking” their hands in their food and stealing the rest of it because they don’t deserve “civility.”

“Don’t just interrupt a senator’s meal, y’all. Put your whole damn fingers in their salads. Take their apps and distribute them to the other diners. Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out. They don’t deserve your civility,” James Thomas, an Assistant Professor at Ole Miss, tweeted Oct. 6, the day Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: academia; doubleblogpimp; incivility; jamesthomas; olemiss; postedseveraltimes; republicans
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What makes these people think this is okay? Seriously?
1 posted on 10/18/2018 12:31:07 PM PDT by SleeperCatcher
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To: SleeperCatcher

Isn’t that theft? Shoplifting?


2 posted on 10/18/2018 12:32:27 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: SleeperCatcher

They are begging for a proper ass kicking.


3 posted on 10/18/2018 12:33:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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To: erkelly

“...whole damn fingers in their salads...”

Does purfessr dipstick know what a Buck Ranger will do to those finger?


4 posted on 10/18/2018 12:34:19 PM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: SleeperCatcher

He’s still ‘teaching’ after making this statement?
He should be committed to an asylum.


5 posted on 10/18/2018 12:36:02 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: budj
Does purfessr dipstick know what a Buck Ranger will do to those finger?

How about just a serrated steak knife?


6 posted on 10/18/2018 12:37:50 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Yeah sure and get both of your eyes knocked clean out of your heads. Go for it.


7 posted on 10/18/2018 12:40:00 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: erkelly

The police in Oxford MS only care about parking tickets and DUI’s. Everyone needs their cut. The police need to make quotas, the tow truck guy needs his cut, the attorneys need their cut. Restaurant offenses don’t hit enough palms to grease unless it’s underage drinking.


8 posted on 10/18/2018 12:42:18 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Magnum44

I repeat what I posted yesterday-—
“But,OFFICER, As I stabbed my fork into my salad I turned my head to speak to my wife. Thus I didn’t see that hand digging into my salad. Gee, I hope the hospital can restore his hand.”


9 posted on 10/18/2018 12:43:52 PM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf ( N.Y. Times--We print the news as it fits our views)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Professor Asswipe...stick your hand in my meal and you won’t have a hand to stick in the next meal.

Of course, you’re too pussy to do this. You’re just hoping to stimulate some moron to do it for you and you won’t have to suffer the consequences. That’s what you think...


10 posted on 10/18/2018 12:44:03 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: SleeperCatcher

These Leftist twits like Prof Useful Idiot here don’t have real civility to offer.


11 posted on 10/18/2018 12:45:53 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: erkelly

Where does this idiot eat?


12 posted on 10/18/2018 12:46:26 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: SleeperCatcher

jmthoma4@olemiss.edu

Here is his email, it seems.

It would be a shame if someone messed with him. He’s “begging for it”, if you ask me.


13 posted on 10/18/2018 12:51:04 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Sticking their hands in my food would promote a totally new meaning to the word fork in hand...


14 posted on 10/18/2018 12:51:05 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: NEMDF

https://jamesmichaelthomas.wordpress.com/

This would seem to be his “personal website”.


15 posted on 10/18/2018 12:52:34 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: SleeperCatcher

James Thomas, Department of Sociology

https://socanth.olemiss.edu/james-thomas/

Courses
Soc 101 Introductory Sociology
Soc 311 Social Problems
Soc 345 Population Trends & Problems
Soc 403 Empire and Revolution (cross-listed as Anth 403)
Soc 413 Race and Ethnicity
Soc 427 Social Stratification
Soc 451 Topics in Sociology

Biography
I was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, about three blocks away from the historic ‘red-line’ of the central city, 63rd and Troost, which was used by real estate and government officials to demarcate white and nonwhite neighborhoods. My mother was a leader of a neighborhood coalition that stretched across this historic dividing line, and I was often struck by the contrast between the interracial social space of the neighborhood meeting, and the intra-racial makeup of the block where our home was situated. In addition, riding the Metro (our city bus system) everyday, I grew a strong appreciation for the diversity of urban life – economic, social, cultural, and political. My mother, a college librarian for thirty-seven years, helped cultivate my interests in reading, writing, and activism.

From Kansas City, I attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, where I graduated with my B.A. in both Psychology and Sociology in 2004. For the next year, I worked as a Youth Specialist with Missouri’s Division of Youth Services, counseling juvenile felony offenders in a minimum-security group home in Columbia Missouri. In 2005, I re-enrolled at the University of Missouri as a graduate student in the Sociology program. Falling in love with the process of critical inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge, I decided to continue my studies after obtaining my M.A. in Sociology in 2005, sticking around for my Ph.D. in Sociology, which I finished in 2011 along with a graduate minor in Women’s and Gender Studies.

My dissertation research focused on the role of stand-up comedy venues in the production of contentious politics. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork at three different sites where stand-up comedy took place: a professional comedy club, a self-described punk/rock/horror/sci-fi bar that hosted a weekly amateur comedy show, and a popular drag revue at an LGBT nightclub. Upon finishing my Ph.D., this research served to frame my first full-length book project, Working to Laugh (Lexington Press, 2014), in which I situate the stand-up comedy club within the larger context of urban nightlife. Taking what Michael Ian Borer describes as the “urban culturalist perspective”, I interrogate the dynamics between space, power, and cultural practice within these scenes. Drawing conceptual strength from Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, I frame the work involved in the production, distribution, and circulation of collective feelings of ‘good times’ within stand-up comedy clubs, and urban nightlife more generally, as a form of affective labor. I then argue that it is affective labor which contributes to, and contests, the reproduction of racial, class, and heteronormative orders within urban nightlife.

Speaking at the 12th Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Since completing my dissertation research, I have embarked on two other projects that reflect my interests in race, racism, their histories, and their contemporary practices. The first project seeks to uncover the complex and contested meanings of diversity, inclusion, and civil discourse that exist within American higher education. Specifically, I ask the following questions: How might colleges and universities, conventionally understood as sites where diversity and inclusion are valued, actually contribute to exclusion based on race, gender, class, and sexual orientation? What kinds of messages about diversity and inclusion matter most to colleges and universities? Finally, how do the students, faculty, and staff tasked with the informal and formal work of diversity understand this work within the context of the messages about diversity and inclusion produced by their institutions? A preliminary design for this project was awarded funding from the ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award in September of 2013. A second project, for which I am a co-author, examines the genealogies of race and racism as psychopathological categories from mid-19th century Europe and the United States up to the present day. Examining scholarly journals, speeches by civil rights leaders and politicians, and mass media, this project aims to account for how the 19th century ‘Sciences of Man’, including anthropology, medicine, and biology, used race as a means of defining psychopathology at the beginning of modern clinical psychiatry, and, subsequently, how these claims about race and madness became embedded within claims of those disciplines that deal with mental health and illness. Finally, this project looks to illuminate the post-World War II shift in explaining racism as a social, political, and cultural consequence to that of a pathological byproduct. This project is currently under contract with New York University Press, and we expect to have a completed draft by October of 2015. When not conducting research or teaching, I enjoy spending time with my family, cooking, and consuming massive quantities of television through Netflix and Hulu. I’m also a gym rat, spending roughly an hour every weekday morning lifting weights, jumping rope, and generally trying to relive the athletic glory days of my younger years.

Recent Publications
Books & Monographs

Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

Sander L. Gilman & James Thomas
New York University Press
2016

Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

Lexington Books
2015

Affective Labour: (Dis)assembling Distance and Difference


16 posted on 10/18/2018 12:52:44 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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Why cant this leftard asshole just do it himself...to show us what a “tough guy” he is.

And just like any wuss, he wont do it himself and that’s why he’s telling other people to do it FOR HIM.

However, I really. really wish he would do it while Im eating so my wet dream of actually strangling a POS liberal would come true.


17 posted on 10/18/2018 12:52:57 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Pelham

So he went to college for like ELEVEN years. He must be pretty proud of himself for how smart he thinks he is.

Must make him an expert on creating potentially violent confrontations in public places, over political issues.


18 posted on 10/18/2018 12:56:46 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: SleeperCatcher

James M. Thomas Assistant Professor of Sociology Ph.D, jmthoma4@olemiss.edu

19 posted on 10/18/2018 12:58:59 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: SleeperCatcher

They’ll be drawing back a nub.


20 posted on 10/18/2018 1:00:55 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Very sporting of the little black duck.)
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