Observation triggered by cat laying on back: mammalian underbellies are usually lighter, not darker. So "dark underbelly" is a bad metaphor
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hmmm.. i thought the dark referred to evil/sinister/nefarious state of the said underbelly than its skin color ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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it does, but it's a color metaphor too, hence the incoherence.
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or underbelly == hidden parts so dark underbelly is the dark/evil and hidden part of a society
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