Racism as an affirmative job credential

If you want to get ahead in the conservative legal world, some racist trolling is a good idea:

I’d say Crystal Clanton just keeps failing upwards, but given that outrage is currency in right-wing circles, it is more accurate to say that her career is progressing on schedule. Do you remember why Clanton first became a news story? It’s been a minute, so I’ll cover the deets. 

In December of 2017, the New Yorker reported that Clanton, who at the time worked at the conservative student group Turning Point USA, texted co-workers with this hateful message:I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.

Awful, right? And this was far from a one-off incident, as reported by Mediaite…

Well, even though Clanton was forced out of the right-wing nonprofit, her career prospects were far from damaged. Shortly after she left Turning Point USA, Ginni Thomas — yes, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife — hired Clanton to assist with her media ventures. And Clanton lapped up her connection to the powerful jurist.

But that wasn’t the end of Clanton’s ambitions. She was admitted to ASSLaw — that’s George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, for the uninitiated — and is scheduled to graduate this spring. And now we know that her post-graduation plans include an incredibly prestigious clerkship with Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor for 2023-24.

Needless to say, the double standard here is striking:

I tweet under this handle behind a picture of Bruce Springsteen because I’m afraid my normie lib opinions would hurt my career, but if I were a conservative then screaming the n word all day would not only not hurt me, but probably get me a clerkship with Alito https://t.co/NPTuqZ4Kcy— poorly hidden account (@poorlyhidden) October 6, 2021

Owning the libs is the greatest credential of all for someone on the wingnut affirmative action gravy train.