He doesn’t have any highways or buildings named after him unlike Robert Byrd (KKK-Deceased-WV).
Via The DC
The latest version of a top-selling study guide for the Advanced Placement European History exam explains the French Revolution with a chart which identifies Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a fascist and pairs him with the Ku Klux Klan.
“Barron’s AP European History” (7th edition) makes the claim, intended for consumption by American high school students, on page 168. The chart attempts to compare modern American political affiliations with the various factions involved in the French Revolution.
The chart moves politically from left to right.
The far right of the chart is labeled “fascist.” The authors demonstrate modern-day “fascists” by pairing “Clarence Thomas and the KKK” in the same box[…]
Barron’s typifies the far right during the French Revolution with “wealthy people who fled France.”
The far left of the same chart is labeled “Communist.” For the French Revolution, “poor city dwellers” represent the far left. For today’s politics, the authors choose “anarchists.”
The chart as a whole is convoluted yet crudely, embarrassingly simplified.
The definitions the authors use for the middle parts of their political spectrum (“leftist,” “liberal,” “moderate,” “conservative” and “right wing”) are dubious.
For example, they describe “conservative” as “those against change/most Republicans.” They describe “liberal” as “those in favor or gradual change…most Democrats.”[…]
Justice Thomas, a member of the Supreme Court since 1991 and only the high court’s second-ever black justice, is generally viewed as an originalist in terms of his judicial philosophy. In a nutshell, originalism means that the proper way to interpret any part of the Constitution is to look to the intent of the people who wrote or amended its text. Only a formal amendment process — not judicial fiat — can change the meaning of the Constitution.