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.
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.
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.The entirety of his course…
“CIVIL RIGHTS ARE BAD! STOP ASKING FOR THEM YOU SCUMMY PEOPLE! NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!”
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.
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
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.
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.
Aren’t they always denying cases because they don’t have time ?
The caseload alone justifies expanding the court.
Where of course he’ll stand firmly on the “opposed” side of the discussion, as he has in his time as a justice
Unqualified
It’s desecrating to their memory to have this piece of shit mention them at all.
“Civil rights: how to clean your ass with them”
The good news is this is just a side hustle. I thought for a second he was going to retire and the beaten Republicans were going to replace him with one of Trump’s Press Secretaries. The last one that claimed to be a lawyer despite never passing the bar, maybe?
The next free SCOTUS seat will be filled by that UFC guy that Orange didn’t (yet) hire.
Uncle Tom’s Introduction to Civil Rights (and how to keep uppity black folk in line)
Correction: Uncle Ruckus
And Trump will teach ethics?
I really thought this was the onion. Satire is dead.
Why is our world like this now. This is not how things are supposed to be.
