Uncle Clarence
Progressive outrage about racism is strangely selective
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
I speak, of course, of the ultimate instrument of mass destruction for our times, the N-bomb. Use it, even to debate whether it is harmful, and your career and social life will surely perish.
Unless you need to denounce Clarence Thomas—that house n—— deserves it!
For any who haven’t noticed, progressives have gone utterly unhinged denouncing Thomas. Every wild past criticism is being relitigated, and more than few have publicly called him a race traitor, Uncle Tom, or a straight-up n——-.
I wish Thomas was being savaged because of the undeniable purity of his jurisprudence. No luck: his high-tech lynching is reserved for blacks alone.
The always overestimated Maureen Dowd gave the game away in her recent column, “The Radical Reign of Clarence Thomas.”
To quote the final paragraph: “The court is out of control. We feel powerless to do anything about it. Clarence Thomas, of all people, has helped lead us to where we are, with unaccountable extremists dictating how we live. And that is revolting.”
Given the headline and the conclusion, one might expect this column to be an expose of the Thomas’s influence at the Supreme Court. Alas, it is instead a tale told by an idiot, grandfather’s oft-repeated story of the Thomas confirmation hearings, during which he wore an onion on his belt (which was the style at the time), padded with a few lazy denunciations of sex offender Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett the Handmaid.
Dowd rants about several recent Supreme Court decisions but somehow fails to note that Thomas only authored the majority opinion in one, while providing no evidence that he had any outsized role in the rest.
So why is the column even about Thomas? Well, you see, he’s black. And because progressives do so much for blacks, they should be grateful. And the proper way to express that necessary gratitude is shutting up and doing what progressives say.
Black voters treated like children by progressives. We say, you do. Who cares if the average black person don’t agree with a slavish deference to public school unions, transgender ideology, and Green nonsense? Their opinion matters for the political equivalent of picking ice cream flavors, such as building names and new federal holidays, but never for political substance—that’s for grown-ups.
And that’s the problem with Thomas. He doesn’t just demand to be treated as a man, but as what he is: a genuinely independent and genuinely important man.
And that makes the rage against him a good thing. He will not be swayed, while the arrogance and hypocrisy of progressivism is put on full display.
The progressive dream of the permanent majority is already cracking as Hispanics advocate for their own values by voting Republican in increasing number—God willing, some in the black community also will notice who holds them in contempt and act accordingly.