badgenome on 23 July 2011
| sapphi_snake said: I'd have to read Uncle Tom's Cabin before beign able to judge how racist the term "political Uncle Tom" would be. |
Not really. The Uncle Tom stereotype has nothing really to do with the character from the book, who is actually a pretty heroic figure. It derives from the minstrel shows based on the book which weren't authorized by Harriet Beecher Stowe and ended up portraying Tom as a weak, servile character who falls all over himself to ingratiate himself to whites.
