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.
Why use that description of race? It’s the word used back then, but not today.
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.
Half of the US population LARP being obedient dogs and they take any criticism of such behaviour with disdain.
This propaganda must that good when adults who don’t benefit from this arrangement larp with such fevor.
Disgusting
It’s not half.
It’s 99%. Well, 98% after ten million voters realized neither party was doing anything for them and opted not to skip a day’s pay last election day.
So you decided living in a fascist dictatorship is the same as neoliberal capitalism, to within a day’s pay’s margin of error?
It is, yes.
Try telling someone working 80-100 hours a week who still can’t afford groceries that they’re actually free.
Drag ain’t gonna do that, because it’s not true, but drag is still gonna say living in a concentration camp is worse. Do you understand the concept of a bad thing being worse than another bad thing, or do you think all bad things are equally bad?
Discussion here is about life in the US right now… You are telling people to cope, it aint so bad, we ain’t Russia 🤡
na say living in a concentration camp is worse.
Ohh sorry… Jews and Nazis… The Old’ reliable.
I guess since we aint Jews in nazi Germany, it ain’t so bad 🤡
Drag ain’t gonna do that, because it’s not true
Good.
We’re getting somewhere, then.
Uncle Tom had his issues, but he wasn’t hateful toward anyone.
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”.
Dave Chapel has a similar character, looks like guy is his inspiration along with uncle tom
Can we just move on?
Sure this is a shower thought but it also is yet another politically changed thought.
Charged?
Aww I know, it hurts to lose
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.
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.
So were you gaslighting yourselves about Biden’s mental health or the rest of us?
Biden > Trump, bad mental health or not.
Exactly.
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.
Accelerationist arguments always show that the speaker isn’t nearly as smart as they think they are.
Because accelerationist arguments are always wrong.
You can argue that. It is a stupid argument, but you can argue it.
Anyone who makes that argument has no idea how bad things can get and how fast.
but in the long term there’s always a swing back the other way
Right. Germany got it’s act together…
…AFTER THE DEATH CAMPS.
There is at least one camp right now where genocide is happening and the Democrats are supporting and paying for it.
But not the Republicans? Their hands are somehow clean?
…after a couple of generations, with many years of misery.
Yes?
So if the camps were happening either way, better not to vote for the guy that says “vote me and the camps will have regulations in regard to human experimentation!” and strictly go for “fuck that shit”.
I get people still being affected by the election topics, but it’s not now.
Don’t trigger Lemmy normies too hard lol
Their team obviously good, this ain’t a two party regime driven by the owner class.
Just trust me bro if you vote for my guy for president and my party for congress, we can get some things like ACA 🤡
Just keep voting for two party system, things will change, trust me bro.
some mother fucker comes here with a name like sun tzu and then starts with comment about “Lemmy normies”
fuck off
BLOCKED.
a job well done :)
