Clarence Thomas: "I don't have a clue what diversity means."

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Harry Litman @harrylitman 7m
Thomas: “I don’t have a clue what diversity means. It seems to mean different things to different people.”

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Alito: what is an underrepresented minority?

[Peacetrain]

1. I am just speechless

[GreenWave]

2. Such a judicial scholar!

[Orrex]

3. His first sentence is three words too long.

[Hope22]

13. Lol! nt

[vlyons]

4. Does he not have a dictionary?

From online Merriam-Webster --

"the quality or state of being composed of many different elements or types

the diversity of plant life on that tropical island is staggering"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diversity

[Walleye]

5. Dishonesty is the hallmark of this Supreme Court

[tishaLA]

6. These mfers can't wait to annihilate affirmative action

Kavanaugh and Alito seem to take the whole thing very personally.

[RamblingRose]

8. +1

I don't know why they even bother with the hearing.

[marble falls]

7. And I believe him. He is clueless.

[Mad_Machine76]

9. If he can't figure that out

he doesn't belong on the court. And the level of intentional cluelessness is astounding and insulting.

[librechik]

10. He's half right. n/t

[dlk]

11. Thomas was being willfully ignorant in service to his extremist political agenda

He knows and he was mocking

[milestogo]

12. Its a really big word for such a small mind.

Talk to your hero. He has the best words.

[fightforfreedom]

14. Attention Thomas.

Go fuck yourself.

[Solly Mack]

16. ...

And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. -- U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.

Thomas's answer to then Senator Joe Biden shows he clearly knows what diversity means.

"And from my standpoint as a black American...unless you kowtow to an old order..."

Said old order being the white (male) dominant power structure and its opinion of black Americans.

Regardless of anyone's opinion of Clarence Thomas, his answer clearly reflects an understanding of the word diversity.

Whether or not he truly supports full diversity - he definitely understands the concept.

So, he's lying - but DUH.

[kskiska]

17. He resented being given a leg up by white people

regarding his Yale education.

[rogue emissary]

18. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. We need 51 people on the Supreme Court. It would protect us from a Subversive 6.

[sakabatou]

20. *headdesk*

[Demsrule86]

21. If you take half of the sentence, he is correct..."I don't have a clue".