The Washington Post’s Racial Reductionism [Updated]

 

 

Seth Barrett Tillman, Associate Professor

Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology

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Maynooth

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Ireland

February 17, 2022

Letters Editor

The Washington Post

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cc: Cleve R Wootson Jr & Marianna Sotomayor

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Re:   Cleve R. Wootson Jr & Marianna Sotomayor, ‘Clyburn wields his clout for Supreme Court pick,’ Washington Post (February 17, 2022), <https://tinyurl.com/2s4k7wut>

 

Dear Letters Editor,

Wootson and Sotomayor characterize Justice Clarence Thomas as the “Black justice whose rulings often resemble the thinking of White conservatives.” Leaving aside the racial reductionism, Justice Thomas is the most senior among the conservative-leaning Justices on the Supreme Court of the United States, and he is older than the other conservative-leaning Justices on the Court. So, it is probably better to say that many young White people are following in his footsteps.

Sincerely, 

/s/

Seth Barrett Tillman

Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘The Washington Post’s Racial Reductionism [Updated],’ New Reform Club (Feb. 17, 2022, 10:30 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-washington-posts-racial-reductionism.html>;

Update: partial retraction from Washington Post: 

See <https://twitter.com/JoshMBlackman/status/1494372837410410496>;