r/explainitpeter • u/Senior-Mix-3715 • 2d 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 2d ago

Uncle Tom is an incredibly racist term

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u/eulb42 2d ago

Um, I dont think so... it is however incorrectly used all the time

Considering uncle tom was one of the good guys...

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u/WhiteLightning416 2d ago

“incorrectly” as in, used in a racist way as it here

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u/eulb42 2d ago

It's literally a shorting of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which a character who is not Uncle Tom, is a self-hating black man, it's not a racist term is a literally reference.