#UNCLETIM trends for 11 hours - Will there be MASS account suspensions of White Libs?

christiefan915 said:
I look at the term in the Uncle Tom's Cabin sense, where the slave is depicted as being subservient to his white masters. I wish Dems would have attacked his ideas without the name-calling.
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Uncle Tom is the virtuous Christian hero of Stowe's book, who refuses to obey his white master. :palm:

"Initially, the character Tom—called “Uncle” Tom in the Southern fashion of showing respect for an older man—was viewed sympathetically by the novel’s readers. Stowe made him an exemplar of virtue and dignity who is far superior in character to the white slaveholders portrayed. He lives his Christian convictions, opposing violence despite the brutality he himself bears. Stowe’s Tom is brave, strong, and good. He saves the life of and is a good friend to Little Eva, his slaveholder’s frail young daughter. After Tom is sold to the evil Simon Legree, he is whipped to death for refusing to divulge the whereabouts of some runaways."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Uncle-Tom
 
Bigdog said:
Uncle Tom is the virtuous Christian hero of Stowe's book. :palm:

"Initially, the character Tom—called “Uncle” Tom in the Southern fashion of showing respect for an older man—was viewed sympathetically by the novel’s readers. Stowe made him an exemplar of virtue and dignity who is far superior in character to the white slaveholders portrayed. He lives his Christian convictions, opposing violence despite the brutality he himself bears. Stowe’s Tom is brave, strong, and good. He saves the life of and is a good friend to Little Eva, his slaveholder’s frail young daughter. After Tom is sold to the evil Simon Legree, he is whipped to death for refusing to divulge the whereabouts of some runaways."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Uncle-Tom
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:rolleyes: Re-stating the obvious. Of course he's the hero, that's not the point. It's the contrast of a slave being overly caring to the people who enslaved him.

"However, the character also came to be seen, especially based on his portrayal in pro-compassion dramatizations, as inexplicably kind to white slaveholders."
 
christiefan915 said:
AFAIK there are no plantations in the US today except historical ones. Today such a thing would be called a farm. So using the plantation analogy is just thinly-veiled racism.
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The analogy shows the racism that is thinly vailed in the Democrat party. The terms Uncle Tim and Lawn Jockey are PRIME examples of it. Republicans encourage the rise of a Blackman in the party and Democrats attack him not on the issues but because of his skin color in vile racists terms. (Even you recognized this) They want to prevent independent black thought. Just like plantation owners they don't want black people exercising independent thought so they attack them to destroy individualism and freedom of thought..
 
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christiefan915 said:
:rolleyes: Re-stating the obvious. Of course he's the hero, that's not the point. It's the contrast of a slave being overly caring to the people who enslaved him.

"However, the character also came to be seen, especially based on his portrayal in pro-compassion dramatizations, as inexplicably kind to white slaveholders."
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Like Blacks voting for the racist segregationist, Joe "don't put my children in racial jungles" Biden? Biden, who was shocked that there was an articulate, clean negro in real life?
 
Bigdog said:
Like Blacks voting for the racist segregationist, Joe "don't put my children in racial jungles" Biden? Biden, who was shocked that there was an articulate, clean negro in real life?
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I guess you're moving the goalposts because you ran out of arguments about the "uncle Tom" comments.
 
ExpressLane said:
The analogy shows the racism that is thinly vailed in the Democrat party. The terms Uncle Tim and Lawn Jokey are PRIME examples of it. Republicans encourage the rise of a Blackman in the party and Democrats attack him not on the issues but because of his skin color in vile racists terms. (Even you recognized this) They want to prevent independent black thought. Just like plantation owners they don't want black people exercising independent thought so they attack them to destroy individualism and freedom of thought..
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"Thinly-veiled," hah. As opposed to the brazenly-open racism of the republican party?

Maybe you skipped over my comment in #152: There are plenty of other standard words in the English language to get across that you don't like something about someone."
 
Bigdog said:
Like Blacks voting for the racist segregationist, Joe "don't put my children in racial jungles" Biden? Biden, who was shocked that there was an articulate, clean negro in real life?
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Well, it's " If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't ..... Joe"...He has no idea what he's saying, so it doesn't "count"....
 
reagansghost said:
why is Tim the only black man right wingers adore and defend?

they love Uncle Toms
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The insult Uncle Tom is over the line, to me anyway.

But the fact that Tim Scott confessed he has been pulled over 18 times for driving while black, but then having the nerve to dispute Biden that racial prejudice remains a big problem, shows that he is a tool willing to promote the myths of white hegemony for the sake of his career.
 
Bigdog said:
^^^^^^
Just as I expected from a white Democrat plantation owner. :palm:
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:rolleyes: Sorry, not sorry. Typical.

Colorado GOP lawmaker reprimanded after calling colleague 'Buckwheat'

A Republican state lawmaker from Colorado who referred to a colleague as "Buckwheat" during a House session was reprimanded Thursday....

State Rep. Richard Holtorf made the remark Wednesday during debate on economic stimulus legislation that would infuse $10 million into Colorado's arts and film industries and cultural organizations, and caused immediate uproar in the chamber...

“I’m getting there. Don’t worry, Buckwheat. I’m getting there,” Holtorf told an unidentified legislator in the chamber while speaking from the podium Wednesday.

Democratic state Rep. Leslie Herod, who is Black, confronted Holtorf, who is white, at the podium immediately after the remarks.

“This is what I have to deal with Every. Damn. Day,” she said...

Holtorf later returned to the podium and said, "I apologize if I’ve offended anybody in any way. It is not my intent, ladies and gentlemen.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...after-calling-colleague-buckwheat/ar-BB1gu6oe
 
Cypress said:
The insult Uncle Tom is over the line, to me anyway.

But the fact that Tim Scott confessed he has been pulled over 18 times for driving while black, but then having the nerve to dispute Biden that racial prejudice remains a big problem, shows that he is a tool willing to promote the myths of white hegemony for the sake of his career.
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that's fine with me, other people feel the same way

but anyone who spends their time supporting their own oppressors and the expense of those oppressed sickens me and I would have no problem calling him a house negro for that matter, he's pure scum in my book

same with a Uighur who joined the Communist Party and supported the genocide currently underway, maybe an Uncle Hitler

words like cracker, n word, gook, honky, Jap etc I find offensive...they're are epithets for the sake of being epithets

Uncle Tom is a direct reference to a black person who sold out his own race to white slave owners for personal gain, someone who also deserves to be called
Scumbag

one important thing about it though, Stowe's Uncle Tom portrayed a non-resister like MLK. But the character became a symbol for anyone NOT just resisting but abetting their own oppression, how it gained its current usage. I would call any Native American working for a gas pipeline company busy wasting their reservation a sellout, an Uncle fill-in-the-blank, any common first name would do. in other words it's descriptor not an epithet
 
christiefan915 said:
I don't agree with calling Scott an "oreo" or an "uncle Tom" any more than I agree with using terms like "want to keep blacks on the plantation." Both just perpetuate racism.
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Nope one is to control black thought the other is to entourage independent black thought. The Dems are terrified by blacks that think for themselves hence the horrible racist response to Senator Scott. The plantation owners were terrified by blacks that had independent thought and punished them horribly.
 
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