• dick_fineman@discuss.online
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    2 days ago

    Yeah thanks for your link to edit the page on Wikipedia. I don’t really care what you added, nor do I care for apologia, but this is racist bullshit. Sorry you don’t see that. But that’s more of a “you” problem.

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        2 days ago

        …that doesn’t change the point though. It’s still racist as fuck to just randomly call anyone black who does something you don’t like an “uncle Tom”. Obama sucked for reasons unrelated to his race. Focus on those.

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          “Uncle Tom,” unlike most anti-black slurs, is primarily used by black people against black people. Its synonyms include “oreo,” “sell-out,” “uncle,” “race-traitor,” and “white man’s negro.” It is an in-group term used as a social control mechanism. source

          Is it not cultural appropriation to determine what terms people in a black community can use to describe themselves?