Is this man aware he is black?
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Back in the day, certain slaves were "house slaves" who were still treated like shit and beat. But were "allowed" to do work in the plantation house instead of the fields.
They were often more racist then the slave owners. The only way they could build themselves up was by tearing their brothers and sisters down.
The worst the slave owner consider them, the better the ones in the house seemed by default.
While Thomas should be aware of all that as a "legal scholar" who would have had to study shit like this for years...
The mentality isn't relegated to just slavery.
Pick any random minority, and you can find a member who does similar.
So he probably wouldn't mind if slavery came back, because in his head he'd still be one of the "valuable exceptions" and has done the mental gymnastics to think he'd even hold onto his position.
Understanding how they think is important to stop them.
He should ask the Jews for Hitler how it went for them
See Latinos for Trump.
Their ~~leader/founder~~ prominent cameraman/journalist(?) got deported this past week.
Leopards eating good.
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He is aware that he wants to pull the ladder up on other POC right the fuck last year.
Black people can be conservative, even Trumpists, and stupid, too.
They're not a hivemind.
They're a cult, so there's not really that much of a difference.
Thomas has been a weird and terrible person for decades, long before MAGA.
He was one of the main pushers of Citizens United, for example. He really believes that wealth should provide more political influence.
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It's worth listening to the More Perfect podcast episode on wtf Clarance Thomas's ideological deal is.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/episodes/clarence-x
Any chance of a TL;DL?
He's a corrupt sexual assaulter who thinks black people shouldn't receive any assistance despite the lack of civil rights they've historically had, and feels liberals are the cause of all his problems and intends to piss them off every chance he gets.
Pretty much the MAGA political platform.
Fred Hampton once said (paraphrasing from memory) "a pig is a pig is a pig. No matter black, white, yellow, or polka dot".
I think this applies here in the sense that race can be ignored as a factor in the corrupt, the same way you can rule out a coherent doctrine. The only academic question about Thomas is has he received a bribe, or is he angling for a gratuity?
I'm saying this as someone who's tried to comprehend his political/ legal philosophy for years. Observers have often said that Thomas believes that black Americans can find more equality in capital than they can with the franchise. The reasoning goes that black Americans can never rely on voting because they're a permanent minority and therefore perpetually dependent on the good will of white America; good will that can never be trusted. Valid point IMO. But nah... Justice Thomas was just corrupt.
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Man who 100% benefitted from progressive policies in his youth seeks to pull ladderup behind him. Tale as old as time. Hell, he said he used a Carnegie library before desegregation.
Progressivism is why he’s allowed to be married to a white woman
Seems fair, as progressives would describe Thomas as a threat to America.
When they say America they mean me.
As in: "Me first" or "democrats are the biggest threat to me"
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Corrupt hack should eat shit.
Nazi daddy just bought him an RV. He stops and he gets cut off. Poor dude.
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Black man resents equal rights, news at 11. Clarence Thomas is the epitome of "fuck you I got mine"
This fucking hump belongs in prison, and so does his treasonous bulldog wife.
Uncle Clarence taking up for his masters again I see.
How nakedly partisan of him. Completely unbecoming of a judge. What an embarrassment.
Well if he is so against progress, we can get him to start picking cotton again
Yeah Thomas has done about as much harm to black people as anybody living. He's incompetent and undeserving of his appointment.
And strikingly corrupt as well.
His last name is Tom. I wonder if he has any nieces or nephews.
I will now forever refer to him as Justice Uncle Tom. Thank you.
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The biggest piece of trash to ever disgrace the Supreme Court and a failure of a human being.
Biden ran the Senate judiciary committee for approving Thomas and buried Anita hills testimony on Thomas's sexual harassment, after promising Hill time to speak. Yet another win for the centrists that keeps on giving all these years later. That fiasco alone should have sunk that aipac idiot's chances at the vp and then president spots. And it is one of innumerable outright idiotic fuckups of Biden's career.
This right here, this Clarence Thomas BS, is the inevitable result of centrists philosophies.
Nothing more pathetic than a man who hates himself so much that he's willing to take his whole race and country back four centuries just to feel superior. Fuck you, Clarence.
If he doesn't understand the definition of "progressive", he is not mentally competent to be a judge at any level.
MAGAts are a threat to the whole world.
The entire US justice system is the enemy of the people.
All of these right wingers are so fucking weird. Apparently, Thomas likes to talk about the porn he watches with other people.
"America is the land of opportunity for one thing and one thing only: capital. Its why we believe in Capitalism. Communism? No, Community is evil. Socialism? No, Socializing is evil. Progressivism? No, Progress is evil. Environmentalism? No, the Environment is evil. Welfare? No, Wellness is evil."
A spirit of “cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus” toward America – by Americans – has taken hold, Thomas said in remarks carried live on CSPAN.
Progressivism means Americans criticize America because they are interested in making it better. Conservativism refuses to criticize America because it has no interest in making it better.
And that's why conservativism is ultimately so pathetic. To fix flaws you have to admit to them, and put in work to change your own habits and the world around you, both of which are hard. To refuse to acknowledge flaws is easy, and you don't have to fix anything about yourself or the world. It's a fundamentally infantile, weak way of existing.
When I see people with Thomas' opinions, I think, "Well, there's a child whose mind just got older, but never grew up." It's incredible to realize, as an adult, just how many of the "adults" around us fit that model, and how much power they often end up having.
Conservativism refuses to criticize America
Convservatism criticizes America all the fucking time. Anytime anybody in America gets a little too "woke" for them.
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Fucking, 30 years of bad headlines from this one POS.
WHERE THE HELL ARE THE:
term limits/ votes of no confidence/ calls for impeachment/ efforts to reform the Judicial/ ... The adults?
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Blatantly corrupt judges are the real threat
Don't you got cotton to pick, house slave?
He sees the threat every day in the morning when he looks in the mirror.
Take the camper bribe Clarence and then never leave the woods again.
Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence
What?!? The central idea of progressivism is egalitarianism, or to put it another way, All Men Are Created Equal..... What kind of an RV or Private Island retreat paid for this ironclad legal and historical reasoning?
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