Twitter allows racist names to trend.
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@klaus said in Twitter allows racist names to trend.:
What's behind the name "Uncle Tim"? I'm not familiar with it.
Un·cle Tom
/ˌəNGkəl ˈtäm/
nounOFFENSIVE•NORTH AMERICAN
a black man considered to be excessively obedient or servile to white people.
a person regarded as betraying their cultural or social allegiance.
"he called moderates Uncle Toms"The term "Uncle Tom" comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, where an enslaved African American, Tom, is beaten to death for refusing to betray the whereabouts of two other enslaved people.
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This is outrageous. I'm going to seek reparations.
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It's alright for you lot. I actually am an Uncle Tim.
And now they're saying there's a freaking Republican like me.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-ugly-reaction-to-tim-scotts-speech-is-telling/
Scott’s most controversial statement, allegedly, was to contend that, “America is not a racist country.” All the usual suspects took to social media to mock the senator for simultaneously saying the nation wasn’t racist and pointing out that he had personally experienced bigotry. Of course America is a racist nation, they wailed, before getting “Uncle Tim” trending on Twitter to try and prove it. The Left’s demeaning of any African American who strays from leftist orthodoxy is one of the ugliest acceptable smears in our political discourse.
And then, this morning:
Yet this morning, Vice President Kamala Harris, when asked by ABC News about Scott’s comments, said: “I don’t think America is a racist country but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today.”
There are flagrant double standards in politics, and then there is seeing two people say the same thing within 24 hours but being treated completely differently. Is Harris spinning nonsense as well? Is Harris losing tens of millions of black voters? If not, why not? Or are liberals simply trying to smear Scott as a quisling because they’re worried about his appeal? (That last question is rhetorical.)
