hohoho@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-217 days agoIn the class warfare of America, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters.message-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1243arrow-down128
arrow-up1215arrow-down1message-squareIn the class warfare of America, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters.hohoho@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-217 days agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·edit-214 days agoUncle Tom had his issues, but he was the opposite of hateful.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down1·edit-217 days agoSwap Uncle Tom for Uncle Ruckus from Boondocks and it would be more accurate.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·16 days agoIt is an archetype and there is a scale…
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·16 days agoi see, thank you for sharing :)
minus-squarenocturne@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·16 days agoUncle 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”.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·16 days agoDave Chapel has a similar character, looks like guy is his inspiration along with uncle tom
Uncle Tom had his issues, but he was the opposite of hateful.
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