Clarence Thomas is one of the least likely people you’d expect to teach civil rights.
For decades, he has used his Supreme Court weight to oppose affirmative action, challenge federal voting rights protections and reject certain legal resolutions designed to address racial discrimination.
Yet the University of Texas School of Civic Leadership has tapped the U.S. Supreme Court justice to help teach a course on civil rights and the meaning of equality next spring. The university’s recent announcement raises the obvious question: Just what civil rights story will the students be getting?
Thomas will teach a seminar called “Equality and the New Birth of Freedom.” It will focus on the work of civil rights activists including Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He will be on campus for two hours every morning for one week in February.
What next? Netanyahu lecturing on equality? Trump lecturing at MENSA?
Wouldn’t he be better suited for courses like “Civil Wrongs” or “Corruption 101”?
Is he going to talk about the friends he turned in to the FBI when he pretended he was fighting for Civil Rights?
or about the civil rights hes tried so hard to take away from people in exchange for an RV
Maybe he could just die instead.
…and in other news, Ray Cohen is going to teach LGBTQ studies.
Clarence Thomas is a Peter-Principled mediocrity who convinced himself that going to Yale somehow closed more doors than it opened for him, and ironically he let that bitterness turn him from a promising, if rigid, attorney into the exact kind of token he feared people saw him as. We are therefore subject to a naive and inflexible judicial philosophy that somehow always breaks in favor of whatever nonsense the Republican party wants, and he’s so scarred by his own self-defeating choices that he sees no issue in running a grift to get the money he thinks he deserves.
He wasn’t born to be a monster, but he sure made himself one. He’d be a tragic figure if he weren’t fucking over the entire country in real life.
Well said.
The entirety of his course…
“CIVIL RIGHTS ARE BAD! STOP ASKING FOR THEM YOU SCUMMY PEOPLE! NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!”
Man, I sure hope some
patriotunhinged person doesn’t use the fact we know where and when he’ll be to cause him to be persuaded to shuffle this mortal coil, leaving an opening in SCOTUS that Trump can’t fill with a similar right wing christofacist due to the fact Democrats hold the Senate.I’d assumed it’d be a seminar on RV law
“Civil rights: how to clean your ass with them”
Well he would be an expert, he’s helped take away most of them.
Course is 1 credit hour, 30 mins once every other week. And it’s just phone calls of his wife telling him how to vote.
I can already teach his class for him. Here is how civil rights work, courtesy of Clarence Thomas:
- Get invited to the supreme court.
- You get to decide what civil rights are, and what they aren’t.
- Make them up as you go, however you please.
That’s clearly what he’s learned from his own experiences, it would be dishonest for him to teach anything else.
You forgot “Receive bribes”.
They are gratuities!
They only actually get into details like that that at the post-graduate level, but if you read between the lines carefully enough it’s already implied by “however you please”.
It’s desecrating to their memory to have this piece of shit mention them at all.
Where of course he’ll stand firmly on the “opposed” side of the discussion, as he has in his time as a justice
