'Just a lie’: Vox slammed for claiming Clarence Thomas said slavery was 'just fine for human dignity'

@GayPatriot @PolitiBunny @WriterLarry @AaronWorthing @New0rleans_Lady Lefties cant contain their rage towards Thomas https://t.co/GOwPYEW5qu

— Corrupt 4th Estate, whose 2016 stunt elected Trump (@WFBfan) June 27, 2015

Here’s a portion of what Thomas wrote in his dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage:

The corollary of that principle is that human dignity cannot be taken away by the government. Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits. The government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away.”

A Voxsplainer summed it up this way:

Yes, you read that correctly. He said that slavery did not have any impact on enslaved people’s dignity.

They left out a key component, didn’t they?

The tweet was even more disingenuous:

Clarence Thomas: Same-sex marriage bans, like slavery, were just fine for human dignity http://t.co/R6FyEjCT9u pic.twitter.com/r4oDEbMyDM

— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 27, 2015

Thomas said slavery was among things that were “just fine for human dignity”?

That of course is not what Thomas wrote, but it didn’t matter by then because Vox had already further successfully perpetuated the Left’s narrative about Clarence Thomas:

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@voxdotcom as a black pro-slavery Judge, he must be a GOP darling.

— Elise Latimer (@Verit_Elise) June 27, 2015

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Meanwhile, those who actually read what Thomas wrote saw it differently:

@voxdotcom "He said that slavery did not have any impact on enslaved people's dignity."

No. No he did not say that. This is just a lie.

— Lt. Colonel Lucky Peter (@spongeworthy2) June 27, 2015

Thomas wrote that government cannot bestow or take away human dignity, but Vox ignored that to try and score some cheap points.

@voxdotcom I thought the point was that dignity can not be granted or removed by government. It is inalienable.

— Scott Ylinen (@spylinen) June 27, 2015

@voxdotcom you twisted his words

— Bill (@bmain249) June 27, 2015

https://twitter.com/stevengo99/status/614820616001204224

Go home, @voxdotcom, you're drunk ➡️ https://t.co/gVnYfpyBD5 #distortions #NotJournalism #Fake

— Tom Kattman (@TomKattman) June 27, 2015

.@voxdotcom Young non-Southern elite lefties lk @jdesmondharris & @ezraklein understand black hardships more than CT https://t.co/GOwPYEW5qu

— Corrupt 4th Estate, whose 2016 stunt elected Trump (@WFBfan) June 27, 2015

.@voxdotcom Have you ever even bothered to read about the pervasive discrimation Thomas faced growing up, @jdesmondharris? cc @ezraklein

— Corrupt 4th Estate, whose 2016 stunt elected Trump (@WFBfan) June 27, 2015

They’re too busy Vox-splaining the world to everybody.

(hat tip: @WFBfan)

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