If you cup your hand behind your ear you’ll hear the beginning of the much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left on this one. It’ll get louder as the day goes on

In one of a series of interviews with ABC News Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas flatly states that liberal progessives are as bad as the old southern racists when it comes to their view of him. From the interview:

Thomas’s most deeply felt opinions are about race, and he pulls no punches. For Thomas, the menacing racists who donned white sheets in the segregated South of his childhood are as bad or worse as the northern liberal zealots in suits and ties.

“These people who claim to be progressive … have been far more vicious to me than any southerner,” Thomas says, “and it is purely ideological.”

Hear that gnashing yet? He goes even further:

“People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same. My grandfather always said that, ‘The water’s exactly the same.’ But those same people are extremely comfortable saying I can’t drink from this fountain of knowledge,” Thomas says. “They certainly don’t see themselves as being like the bigots in the South. Well, I’ve lived both experiences. And I really don’t see that they’re any different from them.”

He says his critics — the people who question whether he is smart or qualified to be on the Court or who suggest he merely does what a white Supreme Court colleague dictates — are as also as bigoted as the whites of his childhood in the deep South. (Emphasis mine.)

“People feel free to say about me what they think about lots of blacks,” Thomas said in an interview in his chambers at the Supreme Court. “Because of the heterodox views I’ve taken, they have license to say it about me with impunity.”

Being called on the arrogance of their views is not something our progressive community is used to. It will be interesting to watch their reaction and the reaction from the media guard dogs who keep them safe from all harm. Will they scream and kick their feet in one of their juvenile tantrums as they often do when challenged, or will they slink into a quiet, dark corner and lick their wounds when they realize that this opponent may be of a stature that at this point they cannot impune? I think they’ll howl and thrash and throw anything they can at him to make his staements mean less, even if they are the very painful truth. It’s what they do best

They can’t destroy him. They can’t tear him down. Too late, libs, he’s there to stay. And he’s got much, much more to say

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