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.

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    Bill Clinton to teach about Monogamy at University of Arkansas

    Donald Trump to teach ethics

    Floyd Mayweather to teach literature

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        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

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        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.

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        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.

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    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?

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      The next free SCOTUS seat will be filled by that UFC guy that Orange didn’t (yet) hire.

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    ~~“University of Texas” is an idiom ~~

    dangit. I fucked that up. I meant oxymoron.

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        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.

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    I hope every student hits him with the hard ball questions that he’s never had to actually face in his comfy little ivory tower. Repeatedly remind him he’s a piece of shit hypocrite.

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    How will he teach civil rights? We’re not allowed to talk about anything that might make white people feel bad. How does one teach about the 19th amendment without discussing gender?

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      "Well you see children, slavery wasn’t all that bad. It gave my great grandparents the life skills needed so that I could one day betray my oaths for lavish gifts sit on the supreme Court.

      “And as we can learn from MLK, all you have to do to create change is peacefully protest. That’s the entire method, nothing else to it. And let’s not forget about how later in his life, he started learning about socialism and his head exploded. Right there on stage, his head just did that. All because of socialism”