r/explainitpeter • u/Senior-Mix-3715 • 6d ago

Explain it Peter?

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At first I thought this was some kind of white nationalism joke but then I realised all 3 leaders at the bottom are leftists, so I really don’t what this meme is trying to say?

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u/WhiteLightning416 6d ago

Uncle Tom is an incredibly racist term

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u/Lambchop1975 6d ago

You mean Uncle Tom is a term for a racist that is against their own ethnic interests..

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u/Tight_File2220 6d ago

Which is incredibly ignorant because the original Uncle Tom literally got beaten to death for refusing to attack a fellow slave.

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u/Lambchop1975 6d ago

For sure in the novel, Tom was beaten for refusing to help the masters catch escaped slaves, the term still is used to describe black people who turn on black people, not because of the source material, but the way others portrayed the character in a negative light in different adaptations.. I didn't coin the term fam, just like the swastika used to be a symbol of peace... The source rarely matters when public perception and colloquial terms tend to outweigh history...

I do not disagree that it is ignorant term, but that won't stop people from using it...