More Racism from the Left

[civilwarbuff]

'Uncle Tim' slur against Tim Scott trends on Twitter after his Biden rebuttal

'Uncle Tim' slur against Tim Scott trends on Twitter after his Biden rebuttal

"Uncle Tim" trended on Twitter Wednesday night as left-wing users flooded the site with the racial slur on Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C, following his rebuttal to President Biden's address to Congress.

Scott, who is Black, declared the United States is not a racist country while noting he had encountered racism in his life. Some of it, he said, came from the left in the form of being called an "Uncle Tom," a derogatory phrase for Blacks who are viewed as too deferential to Whites.

His rhetoric infuriated some progressives, and Twitter placed "Uncle Tim" on its trending topics as more tweets relayed the insulting, racially charged play on his name. Among them was former MSNBC host Touré Neblett.

Cmments/thoughts?

 

[GoldenBoy89]

I don’t think what’s trending on Twitter is a very reliable measure of much of anything.

 

[Hammster]

'Uncle Tim' slur against Tim Scott trends on Twitter after his Biden rebuttal

'Uncle Tim' slur against Tim Scott trends on Twitter after his Biden rebuttal

"Uncle Tim" trended on Twitter Wednesday night as left-wing users flooded the site with the racial slur on Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C, following his rebuttal to President Biden's address to Congress.

Scott, who is Black, declared the United States is not a racist country while noting he had encountered racism in his life. Some of it, he said, came from the left in the form of being called an "Uncle Tom," a derogatory phrase for Blacks who are viewed as too deferential to Whites.

His rhetoric infuriated some progressives, and Twitter placed "Uncle Tim" on its trending topics as more tweets relayed the insulting, racially charged play on his name. Among them was former MSNBC host Touré Neblett.

Cmments/thoughts?

It’s acceptable. Apparently.

 

[Arcangl86]

How is a Black person being called an Uncle Tom by other Black people racist?

 

[rambot]

How is a Black person being called an Uncle Tom by other Black people racist?

It's pretty simple. White conservatives will latch on to any and every example of a black conservative and their words and language and use them as a means of representing the entirety of the black culture regardless of the fact that they represent the tiniest sliver of that culture. It's actually seems a bit sociopathic to me.
It seems pretty strange to me that this man who has experienced racism in the states as a black person argue that the states isn't racist; it's not something that's easily understood to me

 

[SummerMadness]

Article about what random people say on Twitter isn't journalism or reality.

 

[Hammster]

Article about what random people say on Twitter isn't journalism or reality.

Isolated incidents don’t prove anything?

 

[BigDaddy4]

Article about what random people say on Twitter isn't journalism or reality.

Interesting perspective, considering the Trump Twitter-mania over the last several years. I guess the major news outlets and CF posters who quoted his tweets weren't doing journalism or living in reality? Yourself included?

 

[Arcangl86]

Interesting perspective, considering the Trump Twitter-mania over the last several years. I guess the major news outlets and CF posters who quoted his tweets weren't doing journalism or living in reality? Yourself included?

You consider the President of the United States to be a random person on twitter?

 

[Albion]

It's pretty simple. White conservatives will latch on to any and every example of a black conservative and their words and language and use them as a means of representing the entirety of the black culture regardless of the fact that they represent the tiniest sliver of that culture. It's actually seems a bit sociopathic to me.

I can only conclude that any person who thinks that's the case has not been paying very close attention to current events over the past several decades. Sen. Tim Scott, who hails from a very conservative state, is far from a rare example in Republican politics.

But even if someone were to think that way (for no good reason), we would have to wonder why they cannot also point to their "side" as having set an example to follow, considering that before this year there weren't more black Democratic members in the US Senate than there were black Republican Senators.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Doesn’t this kinda, sorta debunk his whole “America is not racist” line?

 

[Hammster]

Doesn’t this kinda, sorta debunk his whole “America is not racist” line?

No. American as a country isn’t racist. There’s no systemic racism. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t individuals who are racist.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

No. American as a country isn’t racist. There’s no systemic racism. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t individuals who are racist.

Then that seems to be a straw man since nobody has claimed the entire country is racist as a whole.

 

[BigDaddy4]

You consider the President of the United States to be a random person on twitter?

When has Joe Biden said anything on Twitter about this?

 

[Hammster]

Then that seems to be a straw man since nobody has claimed the entire country is racist as a whole.

Okay, then there’s nothing wrong with what he said.

 

[Arcangl86]

When has Joe Biden said anything on Twitter about this?

Nice try, but considering I was responding to a post where you specifically named Trump, you know who I was referring to.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Okay, then there’s nothing wrong with what he said.

He even gave examples of discrimination he personally had faced. How can he say there’s no racism in America?

 

[Hammster]

He even gave examples of discrimination he personally had faced. How can he say there’s no racism in America?

Did he specifically say that there was no racism in America?

 

[rambot]

Did he specifically say that there was no racism in America?

Well what he LITERALLY said was nonsense. So folks have to kind of figure it out

 

[rambot]

I can only conclude that any person who thinks that's the case has not been paying very close attention to current events over the past several decades.

pssst. It what we were talking about here.