{"id":1532800,"date":"2022-06-29T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T20:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532800"},"modified":"2022-06-29T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T20:34:23","slug":"mob-loses-a-round-university-will-keep-clarence-thomas-amid-liberal-pressure-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mob-loses-a-round-university-will-keep-clarence-thomas-amid-liberal-pressure-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob Loses a Round: University Will Keep Clarence Thomas Amid Liberal Pressure Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmob-loses-a-round-university-will-keep-clarence-thomas-amid-liberal-pressure-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532800&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>George Washington University will not fire Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, an adjunct professor at its law school, amid left-wing cries on the internet for his termination after the overturning of <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because we steadfastly support the robust exchange of ideas and deliberation, and because debate is a central part of our university\u2019s academic and educational mission to train future leaders who are prepared to address the world\u2019s most urgent problems,&#8221; a letter addressed to its students <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlescwcooke\/status\/1541900356887658498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">states<\/a>, &#8220;the university will neither terminate Justice Thomas\u2019s employment nor cancel his class in response to his legal opinions.&#8221; The move to oust Thomas gained traction after the liberal group Change.org <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/remove-clarence-thomas-from-teaching-at-gw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> a petition on its website, gaining thousands of signatures in a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>The letter referenced university policy regarding academic freedom, citing the guidelines, &#8220;It is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals within or outside the University from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.&#8221; Though it demonstrated a degree of support for freedom of expression, the letter sought to distance the school from Thomas\u2019s opinion, saying, &#8220;Justice Thomas\u2019s views do not represent the views of either the George Washington University or its law school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Change.org&#8217;s petition said Thomas had &#8220;stripped the right to bodily autonomy of people with wombs&#8221; with the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision and called his employment &#8220;completely unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Judge Thomas is actively making life unsafe for thousands of students on our campus,&#8221; the petition reads.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate controversy earlier this month, George Washington University announced it will <a href=\"https:\/\/gwtoday.gwu.edu\/gw-discontinue-use-colonials-moniker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/gwtoday.gwu.edu\/gw-discontinue-use-colonials-moniker&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1656618501830000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2velcqsLTwZS6uS1piyVQY\">abandon<\/a> its use of the &#8220;Colonials&#8221; moniker after pressure from left-wing groups on campus, who created a similar petition. The university convened a special committee to review the name. The subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs4291\/files\/2022-06\/report_of_the_special_committee_on_the_colonials_moniker-3.14.47-pm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/president.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs4291\/files\/2022-06\/report_of_the_special_committee_on_the_colonials_moniker-3.14.47-pm.pdf&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1656618501830000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3BaJLrTKFJ8eWv-gxetdI3\">report<\/a> recommended discontinuing the title, stating, &#8220;The glorified and romanticized image of a white male Colonial normalizes white supremacist patriarchy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas came under fire during his 1991 televised confirmation hearings, when his former aide Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment. Hill failed a polygraph test, and her claims have not been substantiated in the decades since.<\/p>\n<p>In infamous remarks delivered toward the end of the hearings, Thomas referred to the smear campaign\u2014which had been overseen by then-senator Joe Biden as head of the Judiciary Committee\u2014as a &#8220;high-tech lynching for uppity-blacks&#8221; who dissent from popular opinion in the public sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University will not fire Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, an adjunct professor at its law school, amid left-wing cries on the internet for his termination after the overturning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":929,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}