Summary of Clarence Thomas (2/2)

From this podcast via this thread:

• He was raised in a family that considered girls and women worthless, by a strict authoritarian grandfather who was downright cruel, but encouraged him to practice civil rights law. The grandfather later disowned him for selling out, but Thomas tells an idealized version of his traditional, conservative upbringing.
• In an interview, he criticized his sister for being on food stamps. She had worked multiple jobs for most of her life and supported 2(?) children on her own. She had to give up her work in order to take care of their ailing mother (which he offered no help with), at which time she went on food stamps briefly. After the mother died, she returned to work. Of course he left all those details out, implying that she had chosen to live off of handouts. She will no longer speak to him.
• He was a radical black militant in college (can't remember if he was officially a Panther), but with an odd fixation on racial purity. He would confront and threaten interracial couples on the street. Of course, he later married a white woman.
• He was the beneficiary of affirmative action multiple times in his career, despite later denouncing it at every opportunity.
• He consciously chose to follow a conservative ideology because he (correctly) believed it would offer him more opportunities as a black man.
• He constantly talked to coworkers about porn he'd watched, completely unprompted, including beastiality, in very graphic terms. Everyone thought it was really fucking weird and really fucking creepy.

When Clarence Thomas was talking about watching porn, you couldn't just go on the internet and find stuff like bestiality willy-nilly. You had to go to a video store or special order this stuff.

I'll never forget Clarence Thomas as the lone Supreme Court Justice to vote in favor of teachers being able to strip search children on suspicion of possessing contraband, under the logic that 'if children know we can't look in their underwear, then that's the first place they'll put everything.'