{"id":407779,"date":"2022-02-18T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wapo-corrects-white-conservatives-clarence-thomas-report\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:25:22","slug":"wapo-corrects-white-conservatives-clarence-thomas-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wapo-corrects-white-conservatives-clarence-thomas-report\/","title":{"rendered":"#WaPo corrects &#8216;White conservatives&#8217; Clarence Thomas report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#WaPo corrects &#8216;White conservatives&#8217; Clarence Thomas report<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Washington Post issued a correction on Thursday after a story reported that US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019 opinions \u201cresemble the thinking of White conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/16\/clyburn-supreme-court\/\">story<\/a>, which was on the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent influence Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) has over President Biden\u2019s decision to replace Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, suggested that if they are vetted by the congressman, they\u2019ll be reliably progressive.<\/p>\n<p>The article quoted\u00a0Clyburn ally Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), who contrasted a Clyburn nominee to Thomas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you know that a person has been vetted by Jim Clyburn, you know that person won\u2019t go to the court and end up being a Clarence Thomas,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper quoted Thompson as saying. <\/p>\n<p>But the reporters, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Marianna Sotomayor, went on to add that Thompson was \u201creferring to the Black justice whose rulings often resemble the thinking of white conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/post-65.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Washington Post headquarters in DC\" class=\"wp-image-21257934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/post-65.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/post-65.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/post-65.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Washington Post issued a correction after its story sparked outrage on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The last line sparked outrage on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the Washington Post just casually refers to Clarence Thomas as an Uncle Tom and it\u2019s just something that the rest of the journalists just let happen without speaking out. It\u2019s just a thing that happens and they are fine with it,\u201d one <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1494360013946511360\">Twitter user wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWTF, WaPo?,\u201d another <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/varadmehta\/status\/1494127123778486275?s=20&amp;t=q3uZ-T1RgZ5y_8MUgdUGQA\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;&#8216;If you know that a person has been vetted by Jim Clyburn, you know that person won&#8217;t go to the court and end up being a Clarence Thomas,&#8217; referring to the Black justice whose rulings often resemble the political thinking of White conservatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WTF, WaPo? <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53Co0WHJh1\">https:\/\/t.co\/53Co0WHJh1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/varadmehta\/status\/1494127123778486275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After the line about\u00a0Thomas\u00a0went viral and resulted in backlash, the\u00a0Post\u00a0issued the following <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/16\/clyburn-supreme-court\/\">clarification<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA previous version of this story imprecisely referred to Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019s opinions as often reflecting the thinking of White conservatives, rather than conservatives broadly. That reference has been removed<em>.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>The most recent version of the Post\u2019s article refers to Thomas simply as \u201cthe Black conservative justice.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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James Clyburn (D-SC) has over President Biden\u2019s decision to replace Associate Justice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":407780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/post-64.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[125883,110758,71404,77802],"class_list":["post-407779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-18-22","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-supreme-court","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}