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Originally Posted by Red Dawg
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Hey dumb ****, when someone calls a black person an Uncle Tom, they aren't thinking about the character in Uncle Tom's cabin. They are basically calling someone a house n***er. If you don't think it is disparaging or should be disparaging to any black person being called that name, go out into public and start calling black people an Uncle Tom. There is no misconception that this is an insult to black people. It absolutely is.
The fact that the character in the book has morphed over the years due to inaccurate depictions in plays/movies has absolutely nothing to do with it.