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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[–] 154 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I have another question, is being on SCOTUS a part time job?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    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....

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I can already teach his class for him. Here is how civil rights work, courtesy of Clarence Thomas:

    1. Get invited to the supreme court.
    2. You get to decide what civil rights are, and what they aren't.
    3. Make them up as you go, however you please.

    That's clearly what he's learned from his own experiences, it would be dishonest for him to teach anything else.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Bill Clinton to teach about Monogamy at University of Arkansas

    Donald Trump to teach ethics

    Floyd Mayweather to teach literature

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    RFK Jr and Kid Rock will be hosting AA and Narcotics Annon meetings.

    Elon will be teaching economics.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Steven Seagal to teach martial arts

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Jesus, I don't think I've ever seen this picture, just read descriptions of it. Looking at it now, it's like one of his eyes is looking in fear and the other eye is confusedly looking for the source of that ringing sound.

    I also heard that he got his jaw broken. Looking at that defensive stance, head position, and open mouth, I'm gonna guess this picture is .5 seconds before mouth go crack?

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    [–] 18 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Well he would be an expert, he's helped take away most of them.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Uncle Tom’s Introduction to Civil Rights (and how to keep uppity black folk in line)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago

    Did Joe Rogan open up another Comedy Mothership location on UT campus?

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  • [–] 12 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Is he going to talk about the friends he turned in to the FBI when he pretended he was fighting for Civil Rights?

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  • [–] 11 points 6 hours ago

    Lol. And Trump will teach a course on ethics.

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  • [–] 11 points 15 hours ago

    Wouldn't he be better suited for courses like "Civil Wrongs" or "Corruption 101"?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 hours ago

    I fully expect his lesson plan to include calling MLK Jr. the n-word along with a song and dance number about how segregation was "Kinda based actually."

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  • [–] 9 points 18 hours ago

    Maybe he could just die instead.

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  • I hope every student hits him with the hard ball questions that he's never had to actually face in his comfy little ivory tower. Repeatedly remind him he's a piece of shit hypocrite.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    There should be some Harriet Beecher Stowe on the syllabus — I’d love to hear Clarence Thomas teach Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 hours ago

    What a joke, he's an enemy of human rights.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    How will he teach civil rights? We're not allowed to talk about anything that might make white people feel bad. How does one teach about the 19th amendment without discussing gender?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    "Well you see children, slavery wasn't all that bad. It gave my great grandparents the life skills needed so that I could one day betray my oaths for lavish gifts sit on the supreme Court.

    "And as we can learn from MLK, all you have to do to create change is peacefully protest. That's the entire method, nothing else to it. And let's not forget about how later in his life, he started learning about socialism and his head exploded. Right there on stage, his head just did that. All because of socialism"

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago*

    Where of course he'll stand firmly on the "opposed" side of the discussion, as he has in his time as a justice

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago

    What next? Netanyahu lecturing on equality? Trump lecturing at MENSA?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Civil wrongs.

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  • [–] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago

    Clarence "Uncle" Thomas?

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  • You need to be a civil right expert if you want to efficiently violate so many of them during your career.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    I hope his students pelt him with apples.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    Class syllabus:

    Week 1: "Get paid up front"

    Rest of the weeks: Call in sick

    Final Project: Write 5 pages on why it's OK to bribe people under Citizens United

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    And Trump will teach ethics?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It's desecrating to their memory to have this piece of shit mention them at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 19 hours ago*

    It truly is. I note James Baldwin is not mentioned; for myself I would not like to be on the receiving end of his pen's ire. His essays are utterly searing and if he were still with us he'd write something so brilliantly well-aimed at this lazy hypocrisy that Thomas would never crawl out of his motorhome ever again.

    This man brings nothing but shame to the greats who went before him, and they'd all readily eat his lunch. When it comes to actual experience, logic, reason, and wit, Thomas comes to the discourse of civil rights with full pockets and empty hands.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Lesson 1: Citizens United and the emancipation of corporate-Americans

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  • [–] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    I'd assumed it'd be a seminar on RV law

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    I really thought this was the onion. Satire is dead.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Hey, at least he's doing honest work to supplement his salary this time.

    Roberts wants the Court to be seen as nonpartisan, so he's instructed the conservative Justices to take bribes from Democrats too.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    ~~"University of Texas" is an idiom ~~

    dangit. I fucked that up. I meant oxymoron.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    UT Austin is in the top 10 public universities in the nation.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Plus, Austin is that tiny bit of sanity in that deplorable state. If Texas ever secedes, we're gonna have to run an airlift of "weird" into it regularly to keep it well supplied.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    The actual title if the course is CIV-666 Civil Rights of Billionaires for the Uncle Tom.

    /s

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Why is our world like this now. This is not how things are supposed to be.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago

    I would like to refer to the ancient adage of "Skinfolk ain't always kinfolk". I would like to submit this picture in particular as the photograph in its dictionary entry. All in favor?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    How many luxury RVs are they paying him?

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago*

    how to put your pubes on your coke can, to Sexually harrass one of your interns no doubt. and also to hate people of your own race/demographic/"left" for not supporting your poor career path or lack therof.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    I hope this is a The Onion story.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    "Civil rights: how to clean your ass with them"

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago

    Man, I sure hope some patriot unhinged 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 21 hours ago

    The entirety of his course...

    "CIVIL RIGHTS ARE BAD! STOP ASKING FOR THEM YOU SCUMMY PEOPLE! NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!"

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    ...and in other news, Ray Cohen is going to teach LGBTQ studies.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    No matter your race, colour of skin you can be corrupt and be safe from any repercussions. What is more DEI than that.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    He has his so screw yours black folk.

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  • "Well, when minorities want rights and shit..."

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    Unqualified

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Lol. Don't let him.

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