The Washington Post removed a line from a news story Wednesday that suggested black Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ judicial philosophy is a brand of “White” conservatism.
THE QUOTE
The report — about how Rep. Jim Clyburn, R-S.C., is helping President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee — quoted another black Democratic congressman saying a Clyburn-approved judge “won’t go to the court and end up being a Clarence Thomas.”
The Post then described Thomas as “the black justice whose rulings often resemble the thinking of white conservatives.”
- On Thursday, facing accusations that the description of Thomas was demeaning and racist, the paper added a “clarification” to the article.
- “A previous version of this story imprecisely referred to Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinions as often reflecting the thinking of White conservatives, rather than conservatives broadly,” it read. “That reference has been removed.”
SAME ENERGY
Over on the Post’s opinion page, a Friday essay by a University of Pennsylvania researcher drew ridicule for joining the Canadian discourse about how the idea of “freedom” is “White supremacy.”