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Ms Rachel calls out uncle tom (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online -3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

ITT white children upvoting racism so they can virtue signal as "progressive". LMAO.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Learn about the use of the term before making definitive statements.

[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah thanks for your link to edit the page on Wikipedia. I don't really care what you added, nor do I care for apologia, but this is racist bullshit. Sorry you don't see that. But that's more of a "you" problem.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I fixed the link

[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

...that doesn't change the point though. It's still racist as fuck to just randomly call anyone black who does something you don't like an "uncle Tom". Obama sucked for reasons unrelated to his race. Focus on those.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

"Uncle Tom," unlike most anti-black slurs, is primarily used by black people against black people. Its synonyms include "oreo," "sell-out," "uncle," "race-traitor," and "white man's negro." It is an in-group term used as a social control mechanism. source

Is it not cultural appropriation to determine what terms people in a black community can use to describe themselves?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

ITT liberals who won't admit Obama was a traitor to everything he pretended to stand for.

[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 4 points 12 hours ago

Obama was a centrist who kowtowed to corporate interests. Obamacare was a gift to the insurance companies when we could have had M4A. That doesn't change the fact that calling him an "Uncle Tom" just because he's black is racist. Oh, also, fun fact, it's pretty hard to "dehumanize" a group when you're calling them "people".

Anyway, go "ree" into your navel, because I really don't care.