We Don’t Need Conservative Uncle Toms

We Don't Need Conservative Uncle Toms

This is so typical of conservative media. The headline is How liberal policies have killed black communities by Clarence Thomas. New York Post is one of the few MAGA-friendly publications in the mainstream media, owned and controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, and is supposedly the preferre

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This is so typical of conservative media.

The headline is How liberal policies have killed black communities by Clarence Thomas. New York Post is one of the few MAGA-friendly publications in the mainstream media, owned and controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, and is supposedly the preferred newspaper of former President Donald Trump. It’s also the oldest continuously-published daily in the United States, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton as the New York Evening Post. So it has a big influence on “populist” or “nationalist” Trump voters, who are overwhelmingly White and working class.

The question is: why should hard-working White folks even care about what liberal policies have done to Black communities?

Liberal policies have been annihilating White communities in America for over 50 years. Black communities, on the other hand, have benefitted from enormous racial subsidies, special laws to institutionalize Black racial privilege in hiring, housing and education. The fact that Blacks are worse off from these advantages is certainly more a byproduct of the Blacks themselves rather than any liberal intent to harm them.

On the other hand, both liberals and conservatives have for decades signed off on policies that were designed to break up and destroy White communities, and make Whites second-class citizens when it comes to hiring, housing and education. Whites are increasingly even at an institutional disadvantage in the criminal justice system, with “hate crimes” laws and policing enforcing a brutal double standard on White people. White police officers are condemned for doing their jobs, while Black criminals are let off the hook for egregious crimes by liberal prosecutors and judges.

The New York Post would never venture to suggest how liberal policies have destroyed White communities, and neither would any other conservative publication—no matter how friendly to Trump and Trumpism—because it is the business of conservatism to deny that “White communities” even exist!

Blacks have “communities” while Whites are merely are a collection of “individuals” pursuing their “rational self-interest.” This is the mantra of deracinated conservatism. Yet it’s worse than that: by offering up friendly Uncle Thomas as the spokesman for what’s wrong with the government’s racial policies, News Corps is sending the message to Whites: your criticism of the racial policies of the State is not morally valid, unless legitimized by a Black voice.

This reminds me of the old leftist anti-war habit of not being comfortable talking about the plight of Palestinians, unless one can find a Jew to represent their cause. Even Ralph Nader used to say, “of course what Israel is doing to the Palestinians is wrong, look here at all the Jews willing to say so!” As if the Palestinians needed the opinion of any Jew to legitimize their struggle for basic human rights and sovereignty.

As Whites, we have a community and we have interests whether or not there is a single nonwhite who agrees. Our communities have been harmed far more than Blacks by the racial policies of the government.

And we can criticize those racial policies on the basis of their impact on White communities alone, without making a cowardly appeal to their effect on Black people, or without any conservative Uncle Tom giving us his blessing to morally legitimize our position.

 

[Kulee Baba]

"Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 1852, quickly becoming the nation’s bestselling book. It features a spirited, religious-minded enslaved black man named Tom, who is sold by his financially-strapped owner in Kentucky to a plantation in Louisiana. There, his Christian beliefs spread hope to his fellow slaves and enable him to endure the harsh beatings of his cruel master. He is ultimately whipped to death after refusing to reveal the location of two runaway slaves."

I've never understood why calling someone "Uncle Tom" is considered derogatory. He's literally the hero of the book, and should be emulated.
And the fact that it was the bestselling book in the country for years means that even then, right before the Civil War, people were not as racist as they're now depicted, and were as a whole, against slavery as an institution.

You had me curious about its origin and thru Google I found this WaPo Oped written by a Black Liberal who thinking that White People at least shouldn't be using the term Uncle Tom. He claims here that this is where Uncle Tom became a dirty name:

Most famously, in 1920, speaking at the first convention of black nationalist Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, the Rev. George Alexander McGuire said that “the Uncle Tom n----- has got to go, and his place must be taken by the new leader of the Negro race . . . not a black man with a white heart, but a black man with a black heart.”

So basically Uncle Tom is the black equivalent to calling someone a cuck.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

"Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 1852, quickly becoming the nation’s bestselling book. It features a spirited, religious-minded enslaved black man named Tom, who is sold by his financially-strapped owner in Kentucky to a plantation in Louisiana. There, his Christian beliefs spread hope to his fellow slaves and enable him to endure the harsh beatings of his cruel master. He is ultimately whipped to death after refusing to reveal the location of two runaway slaves."

I've never understood why calling someone "Uncle Tom" is considered derogatory. He's literally the hero of the book, and should be emulated.
And the fact that it was the bestselling book in the country for years means that even then, right before the Civil War, people were not as racist as they're now depicted, and were as a whole, against slavery as an institution.

Apparently its because after the book came out, a bunch of minstrel shows added an "Uncle Tom" character who basically acted like the stereotype, instead of the actual book.

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

"Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 1852, quickly becoming the nation’s bestselling book. It features a spirited, religious-minded enslaved black man named Tom, who is sold by his financially-strapped owner in Kentucky to a plantation in Louisiana. There, his Christian beliefs spread hope to his fellow slaves and enable him to endure the harsh beatings of his cruel master. He is ultimately whipped to death after refusing to reveal the location of two runaway slaves."

I've never understood why calling someone "Uncle Tom" is considered derogatory. He's literally the hero of the book, and should be emulated.
And the fact that it was the bestselling book in the country for years means that even then, right before the Civil War, people were not as racist as they're now depicted, and were as a whole, against slavery as an institution.

it's because Uncle Tom's behavior is interpreted as too deferential to and fawning over huwhite people.
Probably by people that never read the book. Or if they did, they are crayon-eating, blue-curtain-analyzing exceptional individuals.

Uncle Tom is a slur the same way fried chicken and watermelons are a negative stereotype: Media.

To explain the foodstuffs real quick. Chickens were easy to raise and watermelons easy to grow, so recently freed slaves turned to those as staple foods as they grew their industrial capacity alone. Democrat sore losers of the Civil War hated the sight of their former slaves actually being responsible members of society and started a smear campaign. It didn’t really work until many, many years of running this garbage carried on.

EDIT: I was ninja’ed with more accurate information that I didn’t know on the subject, so I’ll leave it to the above posts.