Thread by @HueroProfe

Yesterday afternoon @ASAnews had security eject me from the conference because earlier in the day I dared to critique Brittany Freidman's presentation on the book she's working on about BGF. #ASA2022

I used to be tight with B I even had her crash at my pad when she was in LA doing her fieldwork. She a out of towner of course. For years I had shared copies of my work with her pre-publication even though she had never shared anything she was working on with me. 2/

When my Invisible Hand article got published in 2020 after 3 rounds of R&R&R I emailed her with the good news and to congratulate her after seeing her interview in Jacobin. 3/

She responded to my email accusing me of plagiarism because I hadn't cited her work on BGF that she never shared with me and hasn't been published. She doesn't share her work because she clearly sees scholarship as a form of private property not as a public service. 4/

She said I should have cited her conferenve presentations but I had only seen her present once before at ASC and frankly I didn't even remember that because she didn't say anything that I didn't already know. 5/

At ASA she gave an inflammatory presentation on the Hugo Pinnell murder that may very well provoke racialized conflict in prisons after 10 years of peace between racialized inmate organizations resulting from the 2012 Agreement to End Hostilities. 6/

I rightly objected to her disingenuous narrative in the Q&A for the session. About halfway through my critique she and all her allies in the room started to shout me down to shut me up from critiquing her presentation. 7/

Then apparently they all went after and threw the snitch card and complained to ASA to get me banned from the conference. Appealing to authority to silence critics is how these people maintain their status in the field apparently. 8/

They even went so far as to tell ASA that they felt threatened by me because I and my students in the session were gang involved and have been in and out of jail our whole lives. I never once got up outta my seat or assumed any threatening posture at all. 9/

Imagine someone writing a book on gangs in prison and then throwing snitch to academic authorities and using gang criminalization to demonize a critic to get them to have security eject their critic from the conference entirely. That's exactly what she did. 10/

Conference security treated me and my students like we were a threat to the conference because we're associated with gangs and pulled me aside with a phalanx of security surrounding us to physically acost me if I refused to be ejected. This is what @ASAnews has come to. 11/

Is this the #BureaucraciesofDisplacement that @ASAnews President @menjivar_ceci planned for the theme of the @ASAnews conference? More like #HypocrisiesofEffacement using security to silence a perfectly righteous critique of a colleague's work. Sin verguenza! 12/

Little do they realize they just added another level to the legend that my career is shaping up to be. I'm gonna keep critiquing these disingenuous ethnopolitical entrepreneurs who callously perpetuate the racialized conflicts that my work seeks to mitigate. Sorry not sorry. 13/

Brittany Freidman's only defense of her work was to racialize me, a man of MENA descent, as "white". Maybe @nedasoc can break down for her why that is so fundamentally wrong on so many levels. Not the 1st time that happened and won't be the last... 🤦🏻‍♂️

Who wanna interview me about this, along with my work on gangs and prisons and the critiques I have of the work opportunistic careerists are doing that's potentially putting the lives of inmates in peril? Tag your favorite platform... @jacobin @contextsmag

Here's me shining earlier in the day @ASAnews with my two students from @HomeboyInd @glenn_lj1 and @Jayfer213. They were present for the whole sordid debacle and I'm sure they can break it down better than I can. Don't take my word for it...

https://twitter.com/HueroProfe/status/1556645061130985478/photo/1

The best part is that Brittany Freidman openly announced to the whole session that she is intentionally not citing my PUBLISHED work that she repeated verbatim in her talk because I didn't cite what she hasn't shared or published. That is of course shameless plagiarism. Thanks B!