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.

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    Bill Clinton to teach about Monogamy at University of Arkansas

    Donald Trump to teach ethics

    Floyd Mayweather to teach literature

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        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

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        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.