In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can we just move on?

  Sure this is a shower thought but it also is yet another politically changed thought.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aww I know, it hurts to lose

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• TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why use that description of race? It’s the word used back then, but not today.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe its being used in the same contextual format as it would the time period of Uncle Tom, similarly to how quotes work.

    You shouldn’t censor history.

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    • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, but it’s a shower thought. If it were a quote, I wouldn’t have said anything.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Everyone assumes that Uncle Tom was a character like Sam Jackson’s Stephen from “Django Unchained” or Uncle Ruckus from “Boondocks”. The character in the book is nothing like this. In fact, Uncle Tom is an admirable character. How this man’s name became a slur is more complicated than it first appears.

  The weird part about reading “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is that its advocacy literature, and most of us don’t need much convincing that slavery is bad. But we need this context to understand that Uncle Tom was created by a white woman to appeal to a white audience because it’s his tragedy that is supposed to persuade the reader. Uncle Tom didn’t fashion himself to please some master like Calvin Candy, he was created whole-cloth as a device to awaken empathy of white audience. It’s not his character, it’s his raison d’être.

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This guy reads.

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• kjenney@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Most Americans are apparently oblivious to the state of affairs. The problem is the lack of accountability across the board. There are stupid policies of both parties. Taking away people’s rights is no joke, though.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oof Ouch my both sides

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• timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’ve just described a majority of the Democratic party as well. Don’t forget a majority here was certain that Joe Biden was more dynamic than he’d ever been, and later convinced that supporting Israel’s genocide and neocons would win Kamala the election.

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  • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No. It takes a truly shallow mind to come to this conclusion. Most of us Democrats understand how politics work and knew it was Trump or Harris once Biden stepped down. That’s it, no third option. Only a true idiot or a Trump supporter (same thing) would think not voting, voting this party, it voting for Trump was in anyway better for Israel, Ukraine, and America.

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    • PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So were you gaslighting yourselves about Biden’s mental health or the rest of us?

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    • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not really. If your focus is beyond the next 4 years, you can argue letting Democrats lose is the best strategy to stop wars on the planet down the line.

      In fact if Kamala was going to loose either way (as it happened) it’s a good thing that she lost hard.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  youtu.be/O7VaXlMvAvk

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Uncle Tom had his issues, but he wasn’t hateful toward anyone.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Swap Uncle Tom for Uncle Ruckus from Boondocks.

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    • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No relation.

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