Please, before reporting this post for racism, familiarize yourself with the history of the phrase “Uncle Tom.” The phrase has been used by the Black community against itself, recently in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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"black people say it why can't I"
and how am I supposed to know who is black or not?
Guess you should just allow the n-word too then because people might be black.
I can't believe this is the response. I am seriously at a loss for words.
For the record, I did not report this post for racism. I do believe the rhetoric absolutely enables white hegemony and should not be seen as subversive or somehow post racial.
I am done with this thread. I literally just came to get screenshots for archival purposes. Cheers everyone ✌️
For the people who don't understand the post:
Denying Palestinians a communal identity has always been a key approach to dehumanization within Western discourse.
The Western world has historically tied itself into knots justifying horrific atrocities like the Atlantic slave trade while trying to present itself as a champion of personal freedoms.
Indeed. And also he is putting a few people who have a relative guarding the concentration camp on the same level of suffering as the people in the concentration camp undergoing a Holocaust. This is not a both sides moment.
People in Gaza might refer to themselves as "people of Gaza." And there's aid groups with the name. And plenty of other instances where it's used to humanize them (seems so to me at least). I've already done more work looking for this theory to line up than the ones proposing the theory.
Nobody spends their free time looking shit up anymore do they? Throw me a bone here. Give me a white paper study on just how, precisely, Obama is dehumanizing gazans through his speech patterns. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying I'd like to be right. But being right takes effort. Evidence.
For me it is the equivocation more than anything else. And you just have to look at how the west treats single, child-free adults to see how they prioritize families as morally superior. There is something charged about the word family in that context.
I've already done more work looking for this theory to line up than the ones proposing the theory.
Prove it. Show your work.
I started reading the comments and it brought a question to mind: if Ms Rachel were to criticize the KKK, would she be a race traitor? Is that how it works?
The KKK was fighting to oppress black people, not to liberate white people from oppression.
So no, that is not how it works whatsoever.
If you are looking for other examples similar to Uncle Tom, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusano
Oh ok lol, thanks. That makes sense.
Btw mate I'm stealing this, fucking brilliant:
No problem it's not my meme it's a famous meme of Malcolm X leading the fight for black rights ~~with violent resistence~~ by voting really hard.
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