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Ms Rachel calls out uncle tom (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

TBF in the book he’s much less of an ‘Uncle Tom’. It was the movies that changed the character to the servile slavery-lover we all know and hate, and so that’s really where the label comes from.