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That'd be stupid to change the definition of a well known term because conservatives don't like it. I'm sure people will give as much credence to this as the Teabagger's demand that people stop referring to gay people as "gay"
That'd be stupid to change the definition of a well known term because conservatives don't like it. I'm sure people will give as much credence to this as the Teabagger's demand that people stop referring to gay people as "gay"
LOL. Sure we would not want to correct a wrong definition, and restore a term to the meaning intended by the author who coined it. Much better to retain the incorrect definition that liberals prefer....not.
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That'd be stupid to change the definition of a well known term because conservatives don't like it. I'm sure people will give as much credence to this as the Teabagger's demand that people stop referring to gay people as "gay"
The Baggers are the new Sheriff in town for the PC Police it seems
LOL. Sure we would not want to correct a wrong definition, and restore a term to the meaning intended by the author who coined it. Much better to retain the incorrect definition that liberals prefer....not.
How are you "correcting" anything? You're trying to change a phrase's definition to something that suits your political agenda. A definition is just what a community considers a word to mean. You can try to change the word "God" to mean "Rush Limbaugh" but most people aren't going to want to change a phrase's meaning for no reason. Best of luck with your deluded mission, maybe make a popular movie that changes the word in people's minds instead of petulantly complaining everyone but yourself is wrong.
Sentence #1 and #2 seem to be in contradiction. The term 'Uncle Tom' obviously came from the book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. AFAIK she did not copy the name from a previous source. The attempts to portray Tom (keep in mind he was a fictional character) as something else came from a) people who never read the book; b) people who read it but did not comprehend it c) people who read, comprehended, and decided to deliberately misrepresent it.
This is yet another example of your brain on liberalism. You take a heroic fictional character and drag his name through the mud, making him forever a symbol of something that he was so much against that he gave his life.
That is exactly how I read that book, and I've never understood, since reading that book some years ago, why people use "Uncle Tom" as an insult to blacks who don't "act the right way".
I've always been surprised that the anti-political correctness crowd gets so upset when black conservatives get name-called with epithets like "Uncle Tom".
I guess white conservatives must think of black conservatives as being part of a "protected class" who aren't allowed to fight their own battles.
That is exactly how I read that book, and I've never understood, since reading that book some years ago, why people use "Uncle Tom" as an insult to blacks who don't "act the right way".
Someone gave a clear explanation as to why earlier. Another one is this
" Minstrel show retellings in particular, usually performed by white men in blackface, tended to be derisive and pro-slavery, transforming Uncle Tom from Christian martyr to a fool or an apologist for slavery"
I've always been surprised that the anti-political correctness crowd gets so upset when black conservatives get name-called with epithets like "Uncle Tom".
I guess white conservatives must think of black conservatives as being part of a "protected class" who aren't allowed to fight their own battles.
People can fight their own battles, it doesn't mean I don't think people who use the term, "Uncle Tom" to put down another black are not absolute twits.
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Someone gave a clear explanation as to why earlier. Another one is this
" Minstrel show retellings in particular, usually performed by white men in blackface, tended to be derisive and pro-slavery, transforming Uncle Tom from Christian martyr to a fool or an apologist for slavery"
So, instead of focusing on a great book with a wonderful character, they want to focus on some minstrel show's rendition of Uncle Tom? That's about the dumbest thing I've heard. (Not saying you, saying those who use that as their excuse.)
"Gay" (then) = happy
"Gay" (now) = homosexual... and sometimes used to describe something dumb or unlikable.
"Lame" (then) = A feeble person/animal or limp body part, mostly due to an injury or sickness
"Lame" (now) = Boring, not cool or a boring, uncool person
"Uncle Tom" (then) = Literary hero of a novel
"Uncle Tom" (now) = a black sellout, self-hating black person who typically holds whites in unreasonably high favor
Words and phrases change meaning ALL THE TIME. Uncle Tom is no different.
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