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9. A white guy calling Obama an Uncle Tom is racist

Reply to yurbud (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 07:25 AM

Dec 2013

as anyone with a modicum of decency would know. White people do NOT have the right to tell a black man that he is not acting like a proper black man.

The comparison to criticizing Israel is idiotic--calling him an 'Uncle Tom' is not policy criticism-it's degrading him on the basis of race.
Go ahead and call him an 'Uncle Tom' and see what the reaction is from admins here. Or, better yet , try dropping that phrase on a black acquaintance.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=John+Pilger+Barack+Obama+Uncle+Tom+#seen

People who approve of such slurs are extreme assholes, with zero exceptions. Zero. And, yes, there are such extreme assholes on the left, as Pilger and his apologists prove. They have the racial sensitivity of Ayman Al-Zawahiri:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7737710.stm

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do you have links for both of those? Calling Obama an Uncle Tom is not the same as being a racist yurbud Dec 2013 #7

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it is not in the same category as slurs that imply the whole race is inferior or untrustworthy yurbud Dec 2013 #12

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k&r Thank you for posting this. idwiyo Dec 2013 #8

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