Can a movement similar to fascism emerge in the US?

[sapphi_snake]

badgenome said:

sapphi_snake said:

I'd have to read Uncle Tom's Cabin before being 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.

Ah, I see now. The term "political Uncle Tom" isn't racist though, as long as it can generally be applied to anyone who goes out of his way to please the opposing party (regardless of skin colour, though even if it can be applied only to black people, it would just be pointing out self degradation for trying to please racists).