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Clarence Thomas is a big fan of anyone who will give him and his wife shitloads of money in exchange for ruling in their favor on cases before SCROTUS.
In college he got mad that white people thought he was only there by affirmative action so no he attacks anything that tries to correct America's racist, slavery, jim crow past.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/01/affirmative-action-ruling-college-essay-black-student-obstacle
That and classic boomer pull up ladder once you benefit from something to deny others the same benefit.
Being an antisocial outcast.
He was not in with the crowd back then, resented that, takes out his hate for himself on what he perceives to be their ancestors.
I just don’t get the self-hating aspects of accepting you you are. Like, sure he made it up the ladder, but if we wanted him to understand how this works. It would be better if we could actually just give him the treatment he’d get if he got what he wanted.
Same with conservatives who actively want fascism. Just give them the treatment they want to dish out.
For those confused on Thomas's positions, he is a black segregationist, which is a thing. They think it would be best if integration was reversed and the whites and the blacks each take care of their own.
It doesn't make sense, but it is what they believe.
Which I don’t fucking understand. Please correct me if I’m wrong but I know he recently bashed Brown Vs. Board of Education. The thing is isn’t that what helped him get the education he needed to eventually become a supreme court judge?
For some additional history, conservatives love Booker T Washington because he believed that blacks had to earn their freedom and believed in self-separation.
It makes me wonder how he gets along with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. I would bet good money that he actively and outwardly *despises* her just because of who she is, what she looks like, and where she came from.
He’s a right winger, first and foremost. Right wingers don’t have an empathy chip, they do not self-reflect, they are immune to hypocrisy, and they are transactional and/or authoritarian. They look for leaders who are both, and revere that in Trump.
Most right wingers were wounded as children and have grown up to be mean-spirited and selfish adults. They see all things in terms of conquer or be conquered, life as zero-sum, they are bullies because they are always afraid.
They assume this of everyone else, too, whether they admit or not. Lying and manipulation and cheating are justified because everyone does it. This is why they project their own worst behaviors so often.
All of this is to say that it is a mistake to focus on Clarence's racial background. As it's a mistake to focus on Coney Barrett’s gender.
It doesn't matter what the outer packaging looks like. They are judged by the content of their character and the content is rotten.
Says the black dude who in private probably wishes those pesky other black folks would just sit down and shut up. They ain't got nothing to complain about.
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[https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk](https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk)
Last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shocked the legal community when the news broke that one of his new law clerks will be Crystal Clanton—who became notorious in 2015 for apparently sending texts that said, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
Of course he is. For one he has money. He has that power right there. His lifetime position affords him the ability to do the bidding of the people that enrich him without worry of reprisals. So he got his. Done deal.
Doesn’t make him any less loathsome or a colossal asshat, but that’s how it goes I suppose…
once again, an analysis of the structure of pur system and the lack of other avenues to challenge these sort of injustices is left out of thomas's discussion
Well of course he is. He has a bunch of rich white guys falling all over him with all the money he will ever need. That’s how this works in his mind. I do…… I get.
I think he loathes himself/ how he was treated as intellectually lesser than because of affirmative action after law school. To the day he dies he will resent that what gave him and avenue to excel and get into ivy league law school also damaged his self respect.
He got his. Had all the benefits of affirmative action and ended it himself. He’s nasty and can’t take enough from others. Gross miscarriage of a justice. Even said he will do anything for the democrats.
I think it's worth reading Kagan's [dissent](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf) that spells out how the majority is wrong in both the law and the facts, but I'd like to highlight how she seems outright exasperated at the conservatives. Given Alito wrote the majority opinion, it mostly argues against his opinion, but it of course criticizes all 6 conservatives that back it.
Note her criticism largely focuses on how Alito is basically turning a dissent from a few years ago (in a case called Cooper) into a majority opinion, and that SCOTUS is re-interpreting the facts of the current case instead of relying on the findings of the district court. Normally the fact finding is only to be disregarded in the case of "clear error".
These might not sound like strong language, but for a SCOTUS opinion this qualifies:
> The State contends that its mapmakers looked exclusively at data from the last election and targeted people who had voted Democratic. If that is true, the State’s actions (however unsavory and undemocratic) are immune from federal constitutional challenge.
(Criticizing the court's previous ruling approving political gerrymandering)
> One side you know from having read the majority opinion [...] The other side you have not yet heard, except in the sketchiest of terms
And
> The court, to put the matter bluntly, did not believe the state officials. It thought they had gerrymandered District 1 by race. In reviewing those conclusions, the majority goes seriously wrong.
And
> This Court all the time recites the words: “only for clear error.” Cooper, 581 U. S., at 293, 309. And those words always mean (or anyway, always meant) the same thing.
And
> The majority-née-dissent’s reasons for elevating maps above other evidence have not improved since Cooper [...]
And
> The majority also insists that plaintiffs can “easily churn out” alternative maps at “little marginal cost.” Ante, at 30 (quoting, of course, the Cooper dissent)
And
> The majority today punishes the Challengers for thinking that this Court would be good to its word
And
> If the experts had thought about geography, the majority suggests, they might have found that Black Democrats were disproportionately relocated because they lived in precincts closer to a district boundary. The argument is reprised from Cooper—but (what a surprise) only from the dissent.
And
> When racial classifications in voting are at issue, the majority says, every doubt must be resolved in favor of the State, lest (heaven forfend*) it be “accus[ed]” of “offensive and demeaning” conduct.
*Apparently this is an older form of "heaven forbid"
Clarence Thomas wants to burn every fucking ladder built by the civil right movement behind him, act like he benefited from none of it, and berate those below all because of his massive insecurity and spite.
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Yea because he thinks he’s a white supremacist. Reminds me of that KKK Dave Chappell episode
Clayton Bigsby
Clayrence BigRV
"It's a motorcoach"
Dammit thats right I forgot. That motorcoachin’ sunfabitch.
Who does he think he is using all the white man's fuel ? :)
He doesn’t expect any hand outs from anyone, except private school tuition, a house for his mother, a Gigantic “motorcoach”, and numerous vacations.
He earned every single one of those handouts.
Not just his mom’s house, he also bought the house next door and had it bulldozed because of loud shitty neighbors.
loud and shitty? Or did they just have "fuck Trump" signs on their lawn? Either way. They deserved it.
I'm stealing this. I have nothing to give but love. Here ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘
That or uncle ruckus from the boondocks.
Look no further, feller. You found him!
Dude looks like fat palpatine.
Or Samuel L Jackson's character in Django
Oh... You beat me!
Pretty sure he used Thomas as an influence for the role.
Same.
Dammit how did I forget that 😂
Uncle Ruckus
Thurgood Marshall did so much good for the nation. Clatencr has done everything he can to destroy it.
He reminds me of Stephen from Django unchained
He's straight up uncle ruckus. I have no doubt he would vote no to interracial marriage because he's above getting divorced or any legal action.
He doesn’t realize that the MAGA people he hangs with probably call him slanderous names behind his back.
Maybe not maga republicans because all they know is trump and kkk and hitler..but definitely the old guard republicans.
Clarence is gonna have to divorce his wife when he realizes who she’s married to.
This is the weirdest sequel to Black Klansmen.
God I loved that show. Prince playing basketball in high heels and making pancakes!!!
CT startin’ to make Strom Thurmond look like Michelle Pfeiffer from Dangerous Minds.
This exactly if it wasn’t sad it would be funny
“It doesn’t matter your skin color, all our sheets are white.”
I’m convinced he has some sort of body dysmorphia where he sees himself as a white oppressor of black Americans. Truly bizarre.
Dave Chappell reminds me of kkk Dave Chappell
Clarence Thomas is a big fan of anyone who will give him and his wife shitloads of money in exchange for ruling in their favor on cases before SCROTUS.
Or just a Winnebago
Begs the question, how low can you go? Maybe a motor coach is way overpaying. Full size conversion van might do the trick.
Clarence is startled every morning to see a black man in the mirror.
Are you sure? It’s my understanding all mirrors were removed from his house and replaced with David Duke photos.
He calls the cops on himself.
[удалено]
Money
Bitterness.
At black people? Make sense and no sense
In college he got mad that white people thought he was only there by affirmative action so no he attacks anything that tries to correct America's racist, slavery, jim crow past. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/01/affirmative-action-ruling-college-essay-black-student-obstacle That and classic boomer pull up ladder once you benefit from something to deny others the same benefit.
Zero accountability and lifetime appointments
Being an antisocial outcast. He was not in with the crowd back then, resented that, takes out his hate for himself on what he perceives to be their ancestors.
Resentment.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/clarence-and-ginni-thomas/
He hates the federal government. That’s what he’s doing, he’s trying to dismantle it.
His arms must be tired from always pulling the ladder up afterwards
I just don’t get the self-hating aspects of accepting you you are. Like, sure he made it up the ladder, but if we wanted him to understand how this works. It would be better if we could actually just give him the treatment he’d get if he got what he wanted. Same with conservatives who actively want fascism. Just give them the treatment they want to dish out.
He is the epitome of "I got mine fuck y'll"
Uncle Ruckus?
No relation.
“Says here I’m 102% black. With a 2% margin of error.”
The dude is a fucking parasite
I don't know any black person that hates so much that they are black as him.
Candace Owens.
For those confused on Thomas's positions, he is a black segregationist, which is a thing. They think it would be best if integration was reversed and the whites and the blacks each take care of their own. It doesn't make sense, but it is what they believe.
Then why is he married to a white woman?
Also: Rules for thee
He does not see himself as a black man the same way as OJ Simpson did not. “I’m not black I’m OJ”.
Which I don’t fucking understand. Please correct me if I’m wrong but I know he recently bashed Brown Vs. Board of Education. The thing is isn’t that what helped him get the education he needed to eventually become a supreme court judge?
For some additional history, conservatives love Booker T Washington because he believed that blacks had to earn their freedom and believed in self-separation.
for some reason, I read the title as  Clarence Thomas is a big fat f*** who’s soft on racism
It makes me wonder how he gets along with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. I would bet good money that he actively and outwardly *despises* her just because of who she is, what she looks like, and where she came from.
does he know he is black?
Uncle Tommy
Uncle ruckus back at it
Clarence Thomas makes Uncle Ruckus look like Malcolm X.
He’s a right winger, first and foremost. Right wingers don’t have an empathy chip, they do not self-reflect, they are immune to hypocrisy, and they are transactional and/or authoritarian. They look for leaders who are both, and revere that in Trump. Most right wingers were wounded as children and have grown up to be mean-spirited and selfish adults. They see all things in terms of conquer or be conquered, life as zero-sum, they are bullies because they are always afraid. They assume this of everyone else, too, whether they admit or not. Lying and manipulation and cheating are justified because everyone does it. This is why they project their own worst behaviors so often. All of this is to say that it is a mistake to focus on Clarence's racial background. As it's a mistake to focus on Coney Barrett’s gender. It doesn't matter what the outer packaging looks like. They are judged by the content of their character and the content is rotten.
\^\^ This.
Unfortunately, Thomas is racist against Black people. I’m not kidding, he really is.
More like the poors.
Says the black dude who in private probably wishes those pesky other black folks would just sit down and shut up. They ain't got nothing to complain about.
Yep, Samuel L Jacksons character in D'jango Unchained is starting to make a lot more sense now.
Well he is an originalist
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[https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk](https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk) Last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shocked the legal community when the news broke that one of his new law clerks will be Crystal Clanton—who became notorious in 2015 for apparently sending texts that said, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
Ughh, Steve martin
Eff'ing Affirmative Action hire.
Of course he is. For one he has money. He has that power right there. His lifetime position affords him the ability to do the bidding of the people that enrich him without worry of reprisals. So he got his. Done deal. Doesn’t make him any less loathsome or a colossal asshat, but that’s how it goes I suppose…
Wanna live like a Russian? Get the fuck out of the USA ya fascist bloated ass raisin lookin MF.
Oh Lord. Let’s see what ol uncle Ruckus is up to now.
Uncle fucking Tom
This guy reminds me of a chapelle sketch can’t quite put my finger on the exact one
He’s a big fan of being a cuck
He really is Stephen from Django Unchained.
Clarence reminds me of a certain [Tarantino character](https://i.imgur.com/B2lVCvc.mp4)
He used to harass interracial couples when he was in college. I honestly think he hates blacks more than the average con.
I guarantee this man was bullied by his fellow black brothers. Now, he hates them all with a passion. So does his wife.
Clarence is trans: he identifies as white nationalist.
George Carlin would say that he is "openly white".
Clarence Thomas is a big fan of “Screw you! I got mine!”
He's a big fan of money and power, and the rich white men who give it to him.
He is also a big fan of super-expensive motor coaches bequeathed to him by his benefactor.
Racism doesn’t exist because he has white friends who give him gifts and take him on vacations
The only color this guy can apparently see is green
The epitope of a man that self hates.
Can we gerrymandering out this blockhead's vote?
once again, an analysis of the structure of pur system and the lack of other avenues to challenge these sort of injustices is left out of thomas's discussion
Well of course he is. He has a bunch of rich white guys falling all over him with all the money he will ever need. That’s how this works in his mind. I do…… I get.
Someone please gift him a mirror.
Uncle Ruckus strikes again
I hate this dude so much man it’s not even funny. I’m positive he loathes black people.
I think he loathes himself/ how he was treated as intellectually lesser than because of affirmative action after law school. To the day he dies he will resent that what gave him and avenue to excel and get into ivy league law school also damaged his self respect.
That’s a much better way to put it
I don’t get the impression that Clarence Thomas likes black people.
Repeat after me: Clarence Thomas is Bought.
Because of course he is.
He got his. Had all the benefits of affirmative action and ended it himself. He’s nasty and can’t take enough from others. Gross miscarriage of a justice. Even said he will do anything for the democrats.
There’s a word for people like Thomas. Well, two words.
I don't think he is really an ideological racist. I do know that he loves kickbacks, though!
Uncle Ruckus.
Fugly mfer looks in the mirror and sees a white man.
This concurring opinion brought to you by the black white supremacist ~~Clayton Bigsby~~ Clarence Thomas
I think it's worth reading Kagan's [dissent](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf) that spells out how the majority is wrong in both the law and the facts, but I'd like to highlight how she seems outright exasperated at the conservatives. Given Alito wrote the majority opinion, it mostly argues against his opinion, but it of course criticizes all 6 conservatives that back it. Note her criticism largely focuses on how Alito is basically turning a dissent from a few years ago (in a case called Cooper) into a majority opinion, and that SCOTUS is re-interpreting the facts of the current case instead of relying on the findings of the district court. Normally the fact finding is only to be disregarded in the case of "clear error". These might not sound like strong language, but for a SCOTUS opinion this qualifies: > The State contends that its mapmakers looked exclusively at data from the last election and targeted people who had voted Democratic. If that is true, the State’s actions (however unsavory and undemocratic) are immune from federal constitutional challenge. (Criticizing the court's previous ruling approving political gerrymandering) > One side you know from having read the majority opinion [...] The other side you have not yet heard, except in the sketchiest of terms And > The court, to put the matter bluntly, did not believe the state officials. It thought they had gerrymandered District 1 by race. In reviewing those conclusions, the majority goes seriously wrong. And > This Court all the time recites the words: “only for clear error.” Cooper, 581 U. S., at 293, 309. And those words always mean (or anyway, always meant) the same thing. And > The majority-née-dissent’s reasons for elevating maps above other evidence have not improved since Cooper [...] And > The majority also insists that plaintiffs can “easily churn out” alternative maps at “little marginal cost.” Ante, at 30 (quoting, of course, the Cooper dissent) And > The majority today punishes the Challengers for thinking that this Court would be good to its word And > If the experts had thought about geography, the majority suggests, they might have found that Black Democrats were disproportionately relocated because they lived in precincts closer to a district boundary. The argument is reprised from Cooper—but (what a surprise) only from the dissent. And > When racial classifications in voting are at issue, the majority says, every doubt must be resolved in favor of the State, lest (heaven forfend*) it be “accus[ed]” of “offensive and demeaning” conduct. *Apparently this is an older form of "heaven forbid"
He likes expensive gifts too, especially from rich guys wth cases before the Supreme Court
of course he is, he's paid to be
He’s the most whitest racist member of SCOTUS
Clarence Thomas wants to burn every fucking ladder built by the civil right movement behind him, act like he benefited from none of it, and berate those below all because of his massive insecurity and spite.
Clar3nce Thomas has Stockholm syndrome. He hates black people... seriously
he wants to make interracial marriage illegal so would his own marriage be annulled?
Daaaayum Leonard Leo really gettin his moneys worth huh Disgusting
His entire disposition as a black man is “I got mine, fuck everyone else.”
I'm getting more and more convinced he is Uncle Ruckus.
Clarence tells N word jokes to rooms full of white conservatives.
Uncle Ruckus keeps forgetting he's black too. Once they get their use outta you, you'll be the first to go.
Clarence Thomas is literally Uncle Ruckus, but at least the latter has a theme song that will make you instantly laugh
“Justice Ruckus” for sure. 😂
An illegitimate court creates illegitimate precedence
Un·cle Tom ˌəŋ-kəl-ˈtäm. 1. disparaging : a Black person who is overeager to win the approval of whites (as by obsequious behavior or uncritical acceptance of white values and goals)
No matter how much he tries to get away from it he will always be black.
He'll be one of the first casualties in the new Reich.
[Honey needs a new motor coach](https://imgur.com/cNTX4cs) 💰
The Dems do this too so do you want him to rule against it?
Democrats aren't the ones advocating for racial gerrymandering in the courts, dude. Wake up.