Okay, uh. Fellow white people. Here's a list of times it's okay for us to call someone "Uncle Tom": - We're talking about Tom, who has a fraternal relationship to one of our parents. or - We're talking about Tom, an avuncular friend of the family who had a hand in raising us.
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Replying to @AlexandraErin @arthur_affect
You forgot "Talking about the titular character in the novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'".
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Of course if you've ever actually READ "Uncle Tom's Cabin", you would never use that name as an insult to begin with...
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I have never read the book. But I assume it's point is more nuanced than it's use as colloquialism suggest.
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Replying to @Branden_Harned @uneek35 and
I feel like I read somewhere that in stage play versions of the story, Uncle Tom was often played as a minstrel show stereotype, and that's where the term came from.
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Replying to @SaffiEriksdottr @Branden_Harned and
Yeah the book had much more of a second life in the stage adaptations (many of them unlicensed and shoddily done), which stripped the book of most of its politics and turned it into just a condescending sentimental narrative
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The joke in The King and I about them doing a version of Uncle Tom's Cabin for the king's court with all the context stripped away ("The Small House of Uncle Thomas") kind of says it all
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