hohoho@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-26 days agoIn the class warfare of America, 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.message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1240arrow-down128
arrow-up1212arrow-down1message-squareIn the class warfare of America, 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.hohoho@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-26 days agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-23 days agoUncle Tom had his issues, but he was the opposite of hateful.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-26 days agoSwap Uncle Tom for Uncle Ruckus from Boondocks and it would be more accurate.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·5 days agoIt is an archetype and there is a scale…
minus-squarenocturne@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoUncle Ruckus is a character from the Boondocks. He is an outspoken white supremacist and even claims to be an Irish-American who suffers from "reverse vitiligo”.
Uncle Tom had his issues, but he was the opposite of hateful.
Swap Uncle Tom for Uncle Ruckus from Boondocks and it would be more accurate.
No relation.
It is an archetype and there is a scale…
i see, thank you for sharing :)
Uncle Ruckus is a character from the Boondocks. He is an outspoken white supremacist and even claims to be an Irish-American who suffers from "reverse vitiligo”.