White Boy Affirmative Action

William B. Turner
3 min readJul 16, 2019
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The standard criticism of people who benefit from affirmative action, as Justice Clarence Thomas often whines, is that it brands its alleged beneficiaries as less than fully qualified.

Of course, Thomas is definitely a beneficiary of affirmative action. He only got his seat on the Supreme Court because he was a politically compliant African American when Justice Thurgood Marshall decided to retire while a…

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