Clarence Thomas breaks seven years of silence to criticize Yale Law.

[memphis]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/14/justice/thomas-court-speaks/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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LOL, he breaks a 7 year silence for a crappy joke?

[memphis]

LOL, he breaks a 7 year silence for a crappy joke?

A crappy joke belittling a law program he only got into because of the same racial quotas that he's so strongly against.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

LOL, he breaks a 7 year silence for a crappy joke?

A crappy joke belittling a law program he only got into because of the same racial quotas that he's so strongly against.

right, no black person can get into Yale without a quota.

You ever stop and think that maybe one of the reasons he's so against them is because he doesn't appreciate being denigrated as some sort of charity case?

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LOL, he breaks a 7 year silence for a crappy joke?

A crappy joke belittling a law program he only got into because of the same racial quotas that he's so strongly against.

right, no black person can get into Yale without a quota.

You ever stop and think that maybe one of the reasons he's so against them is because he doesn't appreciate being denigrated as some sort of charity case?

Don't worry, he's not the best black, that's Stephen Carter.

[rwoy]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

[memphis]

LOL, he breaks a 7 year silence for a crappy joke?

A crappy joke belittling a law program he only got into because of the same racial quotas that he's so strongly against.

right, no black person can get into Yale without a quota.

You ever stop and think that maybe one of the reasons he's so against them is because he doesn't appreciate being denigrated as some sort of charity case?

I don't say that because he's black. I say it because he has acknowleged it himself.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

right, no black person can get into Yale without a quota.

No, but Clarence Thomas couldn't have.  He's said so himself.

[MaxQue]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

For the record, the Canadian Supreme Court has 9 judges, from 8 different law schools.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

[wan]

who the heck is stephen carter

[memphis]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

The majority of the population consists of Catholics and Jews?  What about the Protestants or the ever-growing percentage of non-believers such as myself?

What I find most disturbing is that a Supreme Court Justice hasn't said anything for so many years.

[badgate]

NPR published a piece today saying that 1/3rd of people under 30 don't affiliate with organized religion at all. I'd say it's becoming increasingly urgent that nominees to the bench reflect the diverse beliefs of Americans, not just the diverse colors.

[DC Al Fine]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

How do Jews & Catholics make up an overwhelming majority of Americans?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

right, no black person can get into Yale without a quota.

No, but Clarence Thomas couldn't have.  He's said so himself.

I highly doubt he has said anything of the kind.  You think he would give the people who have doubted the value of his achievements ever since his admittance to Yale that sort of satisfaction?  That sounds like an all too convenient projection by some lazy thinking television news talk hack that got repeated in service of an Uncle Tom caricature that bears no resemblance to one of the Court's most original thinkers.

[Blue3]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

How do Jews & Catholics make up an overwhelming majority of Americans?

Catholics are just as Christian as Protestants.

[memphis]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

How do Jews & Catholics make up an overwhelming majority of Americans?

Are Catholics not Christians? Or do all sects of Christianity require their own representation?

[DemPGH]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

Yeah, but it's an indicator, I think, of just how rigidly and negatively hierarchical academia is in America. Which is something that everyone complains about but no one seems too eager to do anything about. Anything short of Yale, forget the SCOTUS, and there's only one that's "better": Harvard. Ridiculous.

NPR published a piece today saying that 1/3rd of people under 30 don't affiliate with organized religion at all. I'd say it's becoming increasingly urgent that nominees to the bench reflect the diverse beliefs of Americans, not just the diverse colors.

Yes. I agree all the way, and the same observation is CERTAINLY true of Congress.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

How do Jews & Catholics make up an overwhelming majority of Americans?

Are Catholics not Christians? Or do all sects of Christianity require their own representation?

Just over half the country is Protestant, yet all the Christians on the Court are Catholic. That's not representative, particularly given the wide differences between Catholics and Protestants on issues such as birth control and gay rights.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

How do Jews & Catholics make up an overwhelming majority of Americans?

Are Catholics not Christians? Or do all sects of Christianity require their own representation?

Just over half the country is Protestant, yet all the Christians on the Court are Catholic. That's not representative, particularly given the wide differences between Catholics and Protestants on issues such as birth control and gay rights.

The differences within Catholicism and Protestantism on such issues, or on political and social values in general, are greater than the differences between them.

[Platypus]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

For the record, the Canadian Supreme Court has 9 judges, from 8 different law schools.

7, from UWA; Melbourne and Oxford; Sydney and Oxford; Melbourne and Sydney;  Cambridge; Sydney; and ANU and Harvard.

Three women, four men; a Queenslander, a Western Australian, a Canberran, Victorians and New  South Welshpeople, republicans and monarchists, heteros, homos, and ?os, white and... well, just whites, but two of them have weird surnames.

Just sayin'.

[7,052,770]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

How do Jews & Catholics make up an overwhelming majority of Americans?

Are Catholics not Christians? Or do all sects of Christianity require their own representation?

Just over half the country is Protestant, yet all the Christians on the Court are Catholic. That's not representative, particularly given the wide differences between Catholics and Protestants on issues such as birth control and gay rights.

Protestants are more likely to oppose birth control than Catholics (I don't have a cite offhand, but every poll you saw from the media during the contraception mandate "controversy" said so), and considering how Catholics were much more likely to support Obama, I imagine they're better on gay rights as well.

[DC Al Fine]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

They also only represent two religions.

Those two religions account for the overwhelming majority of Americans.

How do Jews & Catholics make up an overwhelming majority of Americans?

Are Catholics not Christians? Or do all sects of Christianity require their own representation?

Just over half the country is Protestant, yet all the Christians on the Court are Catholic. That's not representative, particularly given the wide differences between Catholics and Protestants on issues such as birth control and gay rights.

Protestants are more likely to oppose birth control than Catholics (I don't have a cite offhand, but every poll you saw from the media during the contraception mandate "controversy" said so), and considering how Catholics were much more likely to support Obama, I imagine they're better on gay rights as well.

That's largely depends on whether you define Catholic as "identifies as Catholic" or "weekly mass goer" The difference between the two is huge.

[rwoy]

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that the 9 person Supreme Court only attended 2 law schools?  Nothing like diversity, eh?

Yeah, but it's an indicator, I think, of just how rigidly and negatively hierarchical academia is in America. Which is something that everyone complains about but no one seems too eager to do anything about. Anything short of Yale, forget the SCOTUS, and there's only one that's "better": Harvard. Ridiculous.

I'm not saying that Yale and Harvard aren't great schools, but I think it is reasonable to assume that your school helps to shape your point of view.  And the idea that only the views of 2 schools are represented on the highest court in the land is a little disturbing.