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Got it. "Uncle Tom" has no racial undertone.

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  Its a term predominantly used by black critics of a black seen as a collaborator with white oppressors of blacks. If it is racist at all, it is racist against whites, as it communicates distaste for a person based on their relationship to another hated group (but even then, its not communicating a problem with their relationship with whites as whites, but with white oppressors as oppressors, so whether its racist against whites is probably questionable.) There's scenarios where its use could be a form of paternalistic anti-black racism, such as its use by whites of a particular persuasion to criticize a black defector from white-led political program in favor of an opposing white-led political movement.