Clarence Thomas placing a self admitted racist law clerk into the judicial pipeline

[hal2kilo]

Absolutely nothing can be done except to pack the court. Nothing else will save our democracy.

 

[outriding]

How can she be racist?

She has a black friend

 

[trenchfoot]

Not meaning to be racist/sexist in any way possible when I pose this query: I wonder if Uncle Thomas marrying a white woman was one of the many ways he intentionally tried to fit himself into the social circles he desired to be a part of and as means to appear to be of equal status to his peers, especially during the era he found himself in at that time in his life. I mean, he had to be a very calculating man given the goals he pursued along with the societal obstacles he faced at the time.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

He's Justice Clayton Bigsby.

I always wondered how he escaped the Justice Ruckus nomenclature.



Yup, sounds about right.

Uncle Ruckus - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Ruckus has an intense hatred of anything related to African-Americans and goes out of his way to distance himself from them, especially those of older generations. He claims that God says the path to forgiveness for being black is to rebuke one's own race. He is extremely proud of the Irish ancestry he claims to have, although a DNA test showed him to be '102% African with a 2% margin of error'.

Although Ruckus had a terrible father, the main cause of his foul personality and hateful view of the world is his mother who loved him deeply, but had a deep inferiority complex coupled with extreme internalized racism. Despite a lifetime of abuse and poor decisions, her conviction that her life would have been better had she been born white resulted in Ruckus wishing that the African-American population was still enslaved or never existed at all. He frequently introduces himself as "Uncle Ruckus, no relation" to indicate that he has no familial connection to the people he is addressing (and because his first name is literally Uncle).

Ruckus frequently expresses white supremacist views and makes derogatory comments about Michael Jackson, calling him a "lucky bastard" for his skin condition, vitiligo. Ruckus claims to have "re-vitiligo," which he believes keeps his skin tone dark despite using a homemade ointment of bleach and sulfur, which he believes helps his condition, though its effectiveness is uncertain.

In a flashback from when he was 20 years old in 1959, he is seen protesting against Martin Luther King Jr.'s marches during the civil rights movement and occasionally throwing bricks at him. Another flashback scene shows Ruckus serving on a Tennessee jury in 1957 that succeeded in convicting a blind black man of supposedly shooting and killing three white girls, with a Winchester rifle from about 50 yards away. Ruckus is the only black person on the otherwise all-white jury in a Jim Crow courtroom. During his first encounter with the Freeman family, Ruckus sings "Don't Trust Them New Niggas Over There" in the pilot episode, though he socializes freely with them afterwards.

 

[pmv]

In Clarence Thomas's world, Clarence Thomas is the only black human deserving of success, equal treatment, respect, and indeed, privilege; much, less, Clarence Thomas is really the only black person in the world.

All of this, of course, "earned" by him through the wonderful programs of AA and DEI which, for anyone else, would be totally unfair and racist.

This guy is such a fucking cvnt.

I don't understand the guy. I really suspect he's a bit more complicated than that. Maybe not a _lot_ more complicated, but a bit.

I heard an interview with the author of this book, and came away still not really understanding CT (I don't care enough to actually buy and read the book)

‘The Enigma of Clarence Thomas’ Makes a Strong Case for Its Provocative Thesis (Published 2019)

In his new book, Corey Robin argues that the black nationalism underpinning Thomas’s jurisprudence is a “secret hiding in plain sight.”

www.nytimes.com

I think class has a lot to do with it, along with CT's strong belief in patriarchy.

 

[Xcobra]

This is in perfect alignment with why I see you as a highly moral person. You are always first in line to protect people against the damage judgmental people can do to others and I believe the reason is that your own deep desire to be moral yourself was challenged as a child. It is profoundly painful to be seen as a child as having far less moral character than one actually is.

But this deep commitment not to be the asshole who misjudges others can create a feeling that is all others are doing when they judge. There are, however, lots of people who are actually guilty of the things for which they are judged. Unfortunately for most people judgment creates disgust and spite that are themselves pretty ugly at times.

I listened to hours and hours of the hearings live on NPR myself and saw guilty as charged and unfit to judge. I watched a propaganda piece a couple of years Bach that made me question my judgement but it didn’t take. He is still unfit for the job in my opinion.

As much as judgmentalism makes me sick too, comparing the harm he has done to the nation to the nastiness he was subjected to it’s a pity it wasn’t sufficiently greater to have Borked him.

My opinion.

PS: Forgot to tell you I started a thread on judgment minutes before I saw your post.

You spelled "deluded and false sense of morality" wrong.

 

[cytg111]

I think there's a good chance that Clarence Thomas doesn't think of himself as black and that's why he hates black people so much. I think the only black person in the country who might hate black people more than him is Candace Owens.

For the life of me I cant find the clip online anymore, but I once saw an interview with a black man covered in Nazi tattoos fully committing to the ideology, white man superior race blabla. (no, it wasnt Chapelle Show).

If we're dealing with human beings *every single permutation* of what's psychological possible is going to be out there, somewhere.
Every time I see Owens speak I think of that man.

 

[zinfamous]

For the life of me I cant find the clip online anymore, but I once saw an interview with a black man covered in Nazi tattoos fully committing to the ideology, white man superior race blabla. (no, it wasnt Chapelle Show).

If we're dealing with human beings *every single permutation* of what's psychological possible is going to be out there, somewhere.
Every time I see Owens speak I think of that man.

You guys need to take a listen to Jesse Lee Peterson.

https://www.youtube.com/@jlptalk

He's....very real. I only know of him through YMH podcast as they often feature clips of his interviews, which he will bring in various comedians and celebrities that have no idea who he is.

I'd suggest the Ryan Sickler interview.