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.
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.
“Well, when minorities want rights and shit…”
…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.
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”.
I have another question, is being on SCOTUS a part time job?
It’s more like a hobby it seems.
A lucrative side-hustle.
Always has been
I get it, but it sounds like the “teaching” gig is more of a junket
He will be on campus for two hours every morning for one week in February.
I’d like like to get an all-expense-paid trip somewhere warm and only have to work 2 hours a day…
I’d like like to get an all-expense-paid trip somewhere warm and only have to work 2 hours a day…
sure… but Texas? no thanks
Austin is awesome
Yeah, it is just part of the “more free money and stuff for the wealthy”-program.
It is amazing how much money and free stuff the wealthy gets thrown at them just for being wealthy.
Being rich is so affordable. And being poor is so expensive.
Aren’t they always denying cases because they don’t have time ?
The caseload alone justifies expanding the court.
Bill Clinton to teach about Monogamy at University of Arkansas
Donald Trump to teach ethics
Floyd Mayweather to teach literature
RFK Jr and Kid Rock will be hosting AA and Narcotics Annon meetings.
Elon will be teaching economics.
Steven and Katie Miller start teaching compassion and empathy classes
Pete Hegseth will teach leadership classes (haha this one is probably already real)
Kash Patel will teach a course in standing up to authoritarian figures who you admire to an alarmingly sychophantic degree
Alex Jones becomes a professor in unbiased critical thinking
Hegseth will teach axe throwing and skateboarding.
Why do hate drummers?
Steven Seagal to teach martial arts
A legitimate study would be hilarious. Slap fight techniques, avoiding stairs, waddling fatly around corners, flinch shooting, the importance of mid plot stripper breaks, etc.
I mean he was teaching Aikido the way they commonly do, it may smell like bullshido but it’s still a recognized martial art AFAIK, he just looks ridiculous doing it for the last 20 years because of how lazy, sloppy, and out of shape everything about him is.
A better Steven Seagal example would be: Steven Seagal successfully being a badass in front of beloved old championship judo instructor (and then pooping himself)
But a better overall example is Jake Paul becoming a true WBA boxer, in Anthony Joshua’s weight class.
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.Where of course he’ll stand firmly on the “opposed” side of the discussion, as he has in his time as a justice
I’d assumed it’d be a seminar on RV law
It’s desecrating to their memory to have this piece of shit mention them at all.
It truly is. I note James Baldwin is not mentioned; for myself I would not like to be on the receiving end of his pen’s ire. His essays are utterly searing and if he were still with us he’d write something so brilliantly well-aimed at this lazy hypocrisy that Thomas would never crawl out of his motorhome ever again.
This man brings nothing but shame to the greats who went before him, and they’d all readily eat his lunch. When it comes to actual experience, logic, reason, and wit, Thomas comes to the discourse of civil rights with full pockets and empty hands.
