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Fisher v. University of Texas

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Clarence Thomas' Concurrence on Affirmative Action

"I was reading this and it felt uncharacteristically like bull. It feels ranty and weird," she says of the concurrence by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. "He writes very clearly and powerfully on his ideas, which are often I find to be totally batshit crazy." She adds that there is a bunch of conservative bullshit heaped on top of it. 'There is no principle distinction between the university's assertion that diversity yields educational benefits and the segregationist assertion'

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