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.
I can already teach his class for him. Here is how civil rights work, courtesy of Clarence Thomas:
- Get invited to the supreme court.
- You get to decide what civil rights are, and what they aren’t.
- 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.
It’s desecrating to their memory to have this piece of shit mention them at all.
Where of course he’ll stand firmly on the “opposed” side of the discussion, as he has in his time as a justice
Bill Clinton to teach about Monogamy at University of Arkansas
Donald Trump to teach ethics
Floyd Mayweather to teach literature
RFK Jr and Kid Rock will be hosting AA and Narcotics Annon meetings.
Elon will be teaching economics.
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
Hegseth will teach axe throwing and skateboarding.
Why do hate drummers?
Steven Seagal to teach martial arts
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.
A legitimate study would be hilarious. Slap fight techniques, avoiding stairs, waddling fatly around corners, flinch shooting, the importance of mid plot stripper breaks, etc.
The actual title if the course is CIV-666 Civil Rights of Billionaires for the Uncle Tom.
/s
I have another question, is being on SCOTUS a part time job?
It’s more like a hobby it seems.
A lucrative side-hustle.
Always has been
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…
Yeah, it is just part of the “more free money and stuff for the wealthy”-program.
It is amazing how much money and free stuff the wealthy gets thrown at them just for being wealthy.
Aren’t they always denying cases because they don’t have time ?
The caseload alone justifies expanding the court.
Lol. Don’t let him.
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?
The next free SCOTUS seat will be filled by that UFC guy that Orange didn’t (yet) hire.
I really thought this was the onion. Satire is dead.
And Trump will teach ethics?
No, Trump will teach sex education and consent.
Why is our world like this now. This is not how things are supposed to be.
Uncle Tom’s Introduction to Civil Rights (and how to keep uppity black folk in line)
Correction: Uncle Ruckus
~~“University of Texas” is an idiom ~~
dangit. I fucked that up. I meant oxymoron.
UT Austin is in the top 10 public universities in the nation.
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.
Did Joe Rogan open up another Comedy Mothership location on UT campus?
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
