Hack Kelly has an interesting article about Clarence Thomas and the liberal hatred of him (hey, he's a hack, but he's not necessarily wrong on everything).
I do think that part of the liberal disaffection for Thomas is because they see conservative blacks as traitors.
However, it is a mistake, in my opinion, to look at Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia as being the same on legal issues.
As Myles Kantor has pointed out, Scalia is a conservative ideologue and Thomas is more of a Constitutional ideologue, which is why Thomas will sometimes go against federal programs designed to advance conservative ideas.
Perhaps liberals are afraid that Thomas, having some freedom from the dominant leftist-statist/rightist-statist paradigm, is less of a person they can work with than Scalia is.
That is all.
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